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Patient, quality at-bats... What is this?

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Vin Scully on the traits that have helped him connect, "I think I'm just a happy person."</p>— Ramona Shelburne (@ramonashelburne) <a href="

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