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What does " call balls and strikes " mean ? I saw this expression in Bloomberg Businessweek 
till, the book does an admirable jobcalling balls and strikes on the execs’ revisionist version of Facebook’s past and present.
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Penny Lam What does " call ***** and strikes " mean ? Note that we don't put a space before a question mark in English. It's from the sport of baseball.
- Penny Lam What does " call ***** and strikes " mean ?
- Note that we don't put a space before a question mark in English.
- It's from the sport of baseball.
- The plate umpire judges the accuracy of each pitch the pitcher throws and the catcher catches by declaring it a "strike", meaning that it is within an imaginary rectangle over home plate, or a "ball", meaning that it is not within it.
- This writer has compared the book's judgment about the accuracy of the execs' version to an umpire's judgment of pitches.
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Penny LamWhat does " call ***** and strikes " mean ?
Note that we don't put a space before a question mark in English.
It's from the sport of baseball. The plate umpire judges the accuracy of each pitch the pitcher throws and the catcher catches by declaring it a "strike", meaning that it is within an imaginary rectangle over home plate, or a "ball",
0Calling ***** and strikes is about making judgments - e.g. this is good, this is bad. The author of the book did a good job of this.
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