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One of Dutch's Favorites

Told to the Building and Construction Trades Department of AFL-CIO in 1981 to demonstrate some of the basic rules of communication.

A young baseball star and his wife are home one evening when the wife hears their child start to cry. And over her shoulder, the wife said to her husband, "Change the baby." And this young ballplayer . . . said to his wife, "What do you mean change the baby? I'm a ballplayer. That's not my line of work." And she turned around, put her hands on her hips, and she communicated. She said, "Look buster, you lay the diaper out like a diamond, you put second base on home plate, put the baby's bottom on the pitcher's mound, hook up first and third, slide home underneath, and if it starts to rain, the game ain't called, you start all over again."


From "Reagan Speaks" by Paul D. Erickson

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