Clerk: [announced over speaker] Paging Mr. Herm. Mr. Herm, you have a telephone call at the front desk.

Herm comes to the desk and picks up the receiver.

Herm: Yes? Uh huh? Yes, I understand.

Herm hangs up the phone.

It was the president again. I've got to win a World Series with a two-strike bunt single.

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