Then the next guy hits a ball towards the hole that the second baseman dives for and doesn't get, it slips out of his glove and goes out behind the first baseman. You know where this is going, the Padres lose. Lem finishes his story, not an ounce of emotion on his face or in his voice. I suppose it came from having so much experience, but being able to watch a guy lose a bet like that and just not show any emotion was etched into my mind of what a pro has to do. Like you could read a 300-page book on how to act professional and what to do to having staying power as a pro and still only kind of get it, yet in a 5 minute conversation Lem taught me a lot of those lessons that I never forgot.
brings to mind the soccer stadium in bayern munich, or ''munchen'' as pinnacle puts it.
scoreless late in the first half, and the crowd starts singing their rally songs. the lesser visiting team scores. the crowd never breaks stride, keep belting out the lyrics, sing a few more, seemingly oblivious to their side being down a goal at the end of the first half.
wouldn't you know it, the second half starts, the crowd keeps singing, their star player lewandowski scores 5 goals in like 9 minutes, some kind of record, the home team wins for fun.
had to verify my memory was accurate:
On 22 September 2015, Lewandowski set a
Bundesliga record by coming on as a substitute with Bayern trailing 0–1 to Wolfsburg and scoring five goals in 8 minutes and 59 seconds, the fastest by any player in Bundesliga history, to take a 5–1 lead. He also set Bundesliga records for the fastest
hat-trick (three goals in four minutes), and most goals scored by a substitute (five).
[81] Lewandowski's five goals in nine minutes was also the fastest in any major European football league since
Opta began keeping records, and it ended Wolfsburg's 14-match unbeaten run.
[82] He was awarded four certificates by
Guinness World Records for this feat.
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