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having an outfield that hits close to 400 that ain't too bad but then on top of that you got a picture like bite I'm telling you Willie it ain't fair oh I get a pretty good organization yeah yeah I'll admit that it wasn't easy though I mean I had the material all right but it was quite a job molded into a team yes sir quite a job big job but a picture like bait I could do a little molding myself that guy's got an arm like iron yeah but after bite who have I got he's it did you ever stop to think about I'll trade you my whole pitching staff for him and I'll throw in my face basement I wouldn't think of that what kind of trade trade this is the army Grogan you'll work with what you got you don't trade I don't know some guys got all the luck it's all the way he hits not only is he the best pitcher round he also drives the longest ball in the whole base and don't forget my catch and Grogan I don't do so bad behind a plate remember you I can do without that bird there's a ball player I don't know what you're crying about you got a pretty good organization over there in a 412 not exactly in our class of course well it's a good club I suppose they're all right we lose that game to you tomorrow Willie we'll be out of your running for the division you'll lose all right but you put up a good fight broken it's one thing I got it with me oh thanks well I got to be running along now I want to tuck bite it at a sack he's got to get a good night's sleep or he won't shut you guys out tomorrow all right wise guy buddy oh buddy boy you are an example of conversion hysteria we find the patient using symptoms to solve psychological come on buddy boy time to go sleepy bye hold it Willie yeah you were saying my there yes this creates situations where the peripheral organs seem to be effective but actually the disturbance is at the level of ideas I see yes thus pseudo neurological motor symptoms are one of the commonest manifestations of enough enough already very interesting certainly is what does it mean don't be a wise guy it's very interesting that's all it means simply that the things that bother us frequently have their origin in our mind like sometimes a patient has pains in his legs can't walk maybe and then the doctor finds out that this happens only after a certain kind of emotional disturbance you see what I mean his sickness is really as they say psycho some all right thank you dr. flugelman now can we go to sleep is that really on the level of straight medical dope what do you know about so let's knock off the chatter and get some sleep yeah yeah sure well I'll be seeing you fella yeah so long mom good night dr. flugelman that guy murders me extremely brilliant guy Willie you gotta admit that yeah yeah I suppose so now for instance you take that idea never never mind that I got something important to tell you yeah you remember how much trouble that second basement and a 412th gave us the last time we played him they spoiled my no hitter that's the boy we'll go on but you can get ready for the sack well I'm talking go on go on now as I say I found out how to pitch him what do you give him high hard one between the ears and a wisecracks will you what you got to do birdie boy when I give you the sign is shoot him one across the letters on the inside in tight and he's dead you mean it dad I'm telling you he can't make a move okay we'll give that a try tomorrow huh yeah you know that that psycho psychosomatic dealer Marvel was talking about sleep by birdie boy off we go to the land of not all right I'm going and that's the way it began simple right I mean it was a plain old barracks bull session you've probably heard a couple of thousand of them yourself who could have known that it was pretty near gonna wreck our chances for the division championship and what's the use I should have stopped him the minute he opened his mouth him and his psychosomatic well this here trouble I'm telling you about didn't take hardly any time at all get to start it was peaceful and quiet in a barracks that night I was dreaming we had the 412th 8 to nothing when Willie and Willie wake up but I want to talk to you what's about what I have listen there there is a lot of truth in what Marvin says oh yeah yeah yes sir I'll bet you 75% of troubles they start right up in the old noodle it's just like Marvin's yeah okay sure you take take my case you know I can be feeling great picture myself a whale of a game and then somebody comes along does something unfriendly I go haywire yeah yeah my chest you know in the chest the old chest tightens up I get shooting pains in my arm and that plate shrinks to about the size of a dime Willie now tell me ain't that what you mean a psycho somatic reaction yeah yeah yeah hey but what time is it that's about 3 30 why I'm telling you Willie these these pains what's the matter with you you crazy as I just wanted to tell you about my cycle off the psychosomatic garbage and get some sleep oh boy when I get hold of that Marvin him and his ideas you get an idea what I was up against hmm well we played the 412th the next day and we did pretty good against them we had him 4 to 1 in the bottom of the 8th and it looked like we would breeze on without drawing a deep breath I year was having a little trouble with the umpire he was a corporal from HQ all right let's okay yeah all right come with me pretty boy just wait easy now that's the way to work it out pretty boy you leave your seat dog home right in there up it was perfect to why why what do you mean to why all right can't a chatter and play ball all right all right watching it will you up buddy boy baby you know it inside and that was the most perfect pitch I ever saw I stopped beeping and played ball what's the matter you got a bet going on a 412th anybody call that picture ball must have some money right now one more crack like that now throw you at it again away we get robbed here what difference would it make I'm warning you what's the matter boy the arm giving you trouble you don't have a thing in there right now my shoulder feels kind of tight you're twisted so none I just tighten up that's all and I got a pain shooting down through the back of my arm look only one one more in and see just just lob it in there I don't know bird you're the only picture we got what's your design leave it even if he wasn't that guy couldn't pitch pennies into the Grand Canyon boy it's up to you well now look Willie I'd be all right wasn't but I don't pay any attention to that guy just hit the target and we're in you don't like me Willie I don't buy you don't like of course he don't like you that bomb don't like his own mother why she like you hot one huh he's got something against me Willie that's why my shoulder went haywire on me the you stop fooling around this is important happen to be a sensitive guy Willie I know there's nothing wrong with my arm it's like Marvin says a reaction a psychosomatic reaction I know that that's what I was afraid of guys look you're gonna spend the rest of the afternoon Gavin come on let's get the show on the road okay I'll just take it easy now buddy boy down in there will you huh just just just get it over the place where do I get my hands on that Marvin the ball game they scored six runs in the eighth and we're dead yeah what are you gonna do I mean I don't mind blowing a game now and then that happens to the best of teams but to lose because the umpire don't like you that's that's just a little too much for me I decided to get hold of Marvin and straighten things out once and for all him and his psychosomatic but Willie it isn't my fault he happens to have a neurosurculatory asthenia and the pains are psychosomatic manifestation Marvin until you opened your big mouth until you opened your mouth but didn't know the difference between a psychosomatic and a hydromatic now he's one great big nervous reaction that nitwit yes he's in bad shape Marvin you're a pretty smart guy you talked them into the deal now talk them out of it that won't be so easy look if you don't get that guy straight now we're gonna lose the division championship yes I guess that's right Willie but I don't know what there is I can do about it I'll tell you what you're gonna do Marvin you're gonna become the assistant manager of the team assistant manager and charge your mental health and if you don't cure a bird of the cycle what you're gonna call it in one big hurry you'd better apply for transfer because I'm gonna take you apart remember what I'm telling you some fix I'm sitting there with the best team on the whole base maybe the best one in the entire command for all I know and I am helpless because Marvin told boy he's got a nervous system I mean did you ever hear anything like that in all your life just just just think about it I the best picture the guys get an arm like iron and my luck he's got to have a head to match you're listening to the proudly hail production an arm like 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are listening to proudly we hail and now we present the second act of an arm like iron and that's about the way the games went from then on we've gone along pretty good beaten by a couple of runs maybe and all of a sudden without any warning whatsoever something would come sailing in from someplace out in that field it had rubbed births neuro psychomological good thinkers the wrong way and pow there went the board the way things were going I felt at any minute I'd wind up cutting out paper dolls myself well I guess it's all over when he over finished I'm not gonna blow the games anymore you're not you mean it but sure that was a pretty crummy deal you guys work in your hearts out you're building me up a lead and then have me blow it just like that that ain't right that's all right but we know you can't help it well I'm gonna do something about it now boy you're gonna forget all about that psychosomatic garbage at Marvin's been feeding you right buddy I mean that's all you got to do I just don't go for this business I'll let my buddies that's a way to talk birdie boy the fellas sure be glad to hear this I made up my mind to do something it'll be just like old times again you pitch and shut up decided to quit playing ball button out the old bingo what was that you said I saw I saw was quitting baseball I just ain't suitable but you can't you can't do that point I just think it'd be better for all concerned I given it my careful consideration oh that's all you got to say oh he's wracking my career do something yes yes now now Bert I don't think you're doing the wisest thing you can't solve a problem by running away well I guess I just wasn't meant to be a baseball player that's all that isn't the problem what we have to do is correct your psychosomatic well you think I shouldn't quit mother oh definitely not no no what we have to do is meet the problem head on and conquer it recognizing the nature of the problem there wasn't any improvement in the situation as a matter of fact you got worse we kept losing game after game until the lead we built up in the beginning of the season was all gone can you imagine that we were six full games ahead and then Marvin were to help with an iron-headed pitcher of mine blew the whole weeks well we wound up in a tie for first place with the 412th we had to play him one more game to see who would take the championship it looked hopeless Willie what's the matter with you you don't look so good oh I'm tired you didn't sleep so good right Willie nervous tension nervous tension my eye I was reading that crummy book of yours recent advances in psychosomatic medicine oh very thrilling isn't it yeah I didn't know you cared for that sort of thing I don't I was trying to get some information on break I thought maybe I could find a way to straighten them out oh you can't do that will be the cure is going to have to come from within him that's the only way that's funny all my trouble came from within you how can you say a thing like that Willie didn't I persuade Bert to continue playing yeah yeah yeah I suppose so oh boy I wouldn't mind sitting this one come on Willie come on out of the house and take your beating like a man all right all right I'm coming well here goes nothing well how do you feel Bertie boy you're gonna moan down yeah I feel fine let's take him like we used to in the old days show Willie picture like his old self again the hooks were breaking sharp his fast one had a hop on it and his control was perfect I'm telling you when that boy's right you just can't eat him well we had him five one in a top of the seventh one of the 412 skits himself a scratch single on a second pitch this fool hearty soul decides to steal second base so I scoop up the ball and I throw a perfect strike to the second baseman I had him by at least six feet you're out the guy was out of my at stealing stuff don't go and all Willie those three well it didn't take no time at all and Grogan came shooting out to the feel like a band she would a hot time out time out time out time out you can't do this to us some people say to him even keep keep going to me pretty boy to watch around the cool okay he's out play ball didn't want a ball and he missed him did you see him slide right under that ball what a laugh didn't tag him that second baseman of mine tagged him so hard he put a dent in him but you know Grogan always shooting his mouth off you're gonna win a game and a bunch of robbers like a fight yeah bike you know something well I hate your guts oh what's a big idea Grogan madam birdie boy how do you feel I don't know Willie that shoulder that kind of tightened up oh no hey you're gonna let him get away with that he do something well you heard him tell my picture that he hates his guts so well he can't do a thing like that why not yeah why not there's a free country Willie I got right to my opinion I know but what am I supposed to do have a nice little boys kiss and make up now I just tell him to shut up listen really anytime I don't like a guy I'm gonna say so that's the way I'm built it just so happens I can't stand a sight of that big boy oh no no no but my thought don't listen Willie Willie ain't shooting right all the way down my arm all right you guys let's stop horsing around and play a little baseball I heard everything he don't I went the ball game everybody and his kid brother started to hit before the massacre was over they scored six runs and all of them with two out so there we were in the short end of a seven-five scorned things getting blacker by the minute let me tell you how we finally got the third out the second baseman of the airs is hitting a nice fat two or three for the season all right everybody hit everybody watch it there Joe now watch it don't make a face at him he's gonna cry careful now get it over but just get it over buddy boy this guy can't even hit the hay but please watch it wait that's good release two bases that slap has to get us out of the way so the ball hits right in the head and sails out to sent the field on the fly where Tommy catches it for the final out and that's how we finally retired the side does it hurt much Bert it feels kind of numb about the same as usual huh no you know something I don't feel tight on everything where they before I feel different different very interesting this kind of trauma I remember reading about a case just like this you do well I didn't know you were interested oh but I am I am now according to Lefelheim studies in Vienna a shock like that could straighten out the whole deal I'm the little without a doubt now whereas formerly the attitude of those guys over in a 412th made you fold up now it should only make you want to tear him apart oh now Willie I wouldn't be so sure huh oh yes yes well you mean you mean a sock and a skull like that could fix my arm make me play ball again away I used to exactly Willie that is to say it can work only if you have what we call in the trade a sensitive psyche now if you're some kind of dimwitted slob it won't work on I am an extremely sensitive person will you know that okay okay buddy then this is the school and let me tell you this Lefelheim knows his stuff he says that this should release you you're suppressed aggressions according to him you should go out there and and might listen gotta hit oh that's man on first and second I'll get a bat I'm up well maybe I ought to send a hitter up for you I'm all right well you sure yeah I feel fine okay boy go on out and move those guys around we need a couple of runs I see what I could do Willie Willie who is this Lefelheim don't bother me now ma'am I'm watching a game I don't think there's any such person if you want my opinion on this I don't want your opinion in any way in a country like Austria there's gotta be a guy like Lefelheim that was false information Willie and you know well you're not gonna have to chatter and pay attention to the game okay Harry now just toss the ball understand it don't make any faces cuz little buddy's liable a cry be very careful hey watch it buddy hey yeah he threw a dusting he tried to put that one right in his ear Willie I don't think I feel so good I guess Lefelheim was right you just don't have the personality ever Willie why in this kind of a situation if you had a sensitive psyche you'd be a cinch for a two bagger right now I mean it's all in literature you you could look it up can we go on with the game now professor okay Willie I'll show you I got a sensitive sight play ball all right wise guy I'll teach you to go at my head just put it in there I'll show you boy hey listen that mom I think it may work I don't know what I never heard of treating a neurosurculatorious thing in this matter I'm afraid it just all right all right shut up I teach you to fool around with my psych you're miserable bomb yet come on just put it in there here it comes he's winding up now but I don't know how this is going to affect his overall attitude I would be surprised that's the way to knock them in there three beautiful rugs hey mom did I figure this one out a teletrope didn't I well I think maybe Burt will have hyper aggressive tendencies now and that can be just as difficult a problem so we had him eight to seven gone into the eight I was still worried about how he pitched but I didn't have to worry that was the old bird out you know what he did he fan the next six batters on 20 pitches I mean you ever hear everything like that there's no getting away from it the guys got an arm like I only trouble is of course he's got a head to match so what are you gonna do well that's how we took the championship and I want to tell you this managing racket is no sense I was so nervous and run down from the psychosomatic garbage that it took me clean up to the middle of the football season to regain my health you know in the world of music the melody plus a good arrangement and a good performer most often determines a song 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