The Hat and The Hair: Episode 62

by | Nov 7, 2017 | Hat and Hair, SugarFree | 212 comments

 

“Do ya think she will like it?” the USA hat asked anxiously.

“Uh, yeah. Sure,” the MAGA hat replied, too depressed to savage his hick vaultmate with any enthusiasm.

“It’s the first I done painted for her,” the USA hat continued, oblivious. “She’s so bootiful and smart and talks real good. I hope she likes it. I surely do.”

MAGA hat groaned. Donald had taken the hair with him to Japan and left both the hats behind, locked in the White House toupee vault together like a couple of animals. The smell of the paint made him junk sick. He wanted to vomit.

“I’m gonna paint another,” USA hat said. “And another and another. Sarah is my muse.”

MAGA hat idly wondered where this truck-stop shower rape of a hat had learned a word like “muse.” He was so bored. Donald had refused to leave him a phone to terrorize Twitter with and when he watched TV, USA hat begged him to turn it to a re-run of Hee-Haw so incessantly, he learned not to turn it on.

“I’m bored,” he announced. And I want heroin, an ocean of heroin he added just to himself.

“You could paint a picture iffen you want,” the USA hat. He hummed to himself as he sketched out a rough outline of Sarah in the nude on a fresh canvas, the misshapen lumps of her sweaty flesh coming together in horrible wads.

“Can I paint a jolly swastika fucking you to death?”

“You can paint anythin’ you can want,” USA hat said. “Your only limatation is yore imaginations!”

“Barf. Do you have any barf-colored paint? And despair, what the color of despair?”

“Ox tongue,” the USA hat said without pause in his sketching, the shard of charcoal grasped firmly in his folded bill.

“Which? Which is ox tongue?” the MAGA hat demanded. The USA hat hummed tuneless to himself, working on getting the heavy-lidded and utterly dead eyes of his crush just right.

MAGA hat thought about pressing him but instead scooted over to a blank canvas, picked up a charcoal stick and began to slash at it boldly, just try to ride his feelings of rage and abandonment. A screaming face formed.

“A brush, a brush,” he demanded. “And red. Fresh blood red and the black-red of old blood.”

The USA hat slid brushes and paints over to him and noted without a trace of an accent, “Old blood is brown-red or even just brown. Stay vivid.”

The MAGA hat didn’t hear him as he squeezed the tubes into mounds in front of him and grabbed up a brush. He laid down thick lines on the canvas, almost scooping up paint with the brush for some and scrubbing the bristles to the heel of the ferrule on others.

“Impasto,” the USA hat whispered. The MAGA hat didn’t hear him in his furious ecstasy. More paint, more paint as the face seemed to push its way out of the canvas. The brush snapped in his bill and MAGA hat dug the broken handle into the canvas, ripping the heavy fabric before dashing to the floor of the vault and snatching up another.

As he spat rage at the canvas, USA hat turned on the TV behind them and used the TiVo to search through the last half-hour of news coverage that had built up. He found what he wanted and froze the screen. When he turned back, the MAGA let the brush fall from his bill and was breathing in great ragged gasps.

The painting was a vision of Hell, the skinned, howling face of Sarah, the thick paint running in spots, which only added to the ghastly effect. The center of her mouth was stabbed rent in the canvas, but you couldn’t see the easel or the wall behind. There was nothing, a horrible no-color that went on forever.

“Donald is bringing you home a new friend,” the USA hat whispered.

“What do you mean?”

“Look,” he said. “Look at the TV.”

MAGA hat whirled around and froze. Two white trucker hats in front of Donald on a table. “Donald & Shinzo, Make Alliance Even Greater,” they read in gold embroidery.

MAGA hat screamed.

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212 Comments

  1. Vhyrus

    Can we do like a power rangers hat spin off? Can they all come together and form like a Klan Robe or a SS uniform or something?

  2. The Hyperbole

    Hey where’s the title graphic, also get CRMP or CMRP or Cwhatever to paint the jolly swastika truck stop shower raping USA hat.

    *The Edit Fairy is pleased with you*

  3. bacon-magic

    USA hat is an evil genius pretending to be an idiot? Don’t tell me that’s the Mein Kampf hat…

    • commodious spittoon

      Getting some sinister feelings about USA hat.

      • Swiss Servator

        “Impasto,” the USA hat whispered

        *shivers*

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      USA hat used to belong to Richard Spencer.

      • Swiss Servator

        *arches eyebrow, begins to applaud*

      • Bobarian LMD

        You mean – Richard Spencer used to belong to USA hat. Right?

  4. Swiss Servator

    this truck-stop shower rape of a hat

    *sighs in twisted appreciation*

    • bacon-magic

      *Weinstein gaze*

  5. Playa Manhattan

    Junk sick?

    I know exactly what you mean.

  6. DOOMco

    USA hat seems like a psychopath.

    • Hyperion

      These new Japanese hats should add some interest. I hope they’re both female.

      • commodious spittoon

        MAEG is feminine… ish?

      • Q Continuum

        I sense some pretty sick shit on the horizon if they are.

      • Hyperion

        You probably just talked SF into it.

      • Swiss Servator

        +1 Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Orgy?

      • Bobarian LMD

        Hermaphrodites.

      • Swiss Servator

        *bows to his sensei snarksei*

  7. This Machine

    Ah, yes. Just what I needed today. Was beginning to miss that feeling of the abyss staring back into me.

    • Swiss Servator

      There was nothing, a horrible no-color that went on forever.

      *unblinking stare*

    • libertarianjoe

      In cases like this, where the evidence rests mostly on he-said she-said, I think the penalty for knowingly filing a false police report should be more severe.

      • Hyperion

        That would certainly end a lot of this and shut up a lot of the #MeToo hysteria.

      • DOOMco

        i’m cool with 2x the punishment the crime they lied about would get.

      • libertarianjoe

        Yeah, sounds good to me. Or at least 1x the punishment for the first offense, and then ramping up for subsequent offenses.

      • wdalasio

        Nah. I’d say exactly the same punishment. Down to the particular prison.

    • Hyperion

      Crack or Meth?

      • commodious spittoon

        Jealous and petty and dumb, I bet.

        Still would, depending on the state of those teeth.

      • R C Dean

        Less teeth = more better?

    • WTF

      So, the Tuscaloosa police are rape deniers…

      • Hyperion

        Every crack ho deserves to be believed.

    • Fatty Bolger

      Everybody knows women never lie about rape. It’s science.

      • libertarianjoe

        +1 “Why would she lie?”

      • Hyperion

        And how could she lie? 5 out of 4 women are raped.

  8. Q Continuum

    Speaking of things that could easily devolve to SugarFreeness and/or HM’s new fetish:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKX39dan5Is

    Superhot ASMR girl apparently has pet cockroaches. Things took a turn for the weird…

    • Vhyrus

      She is definitely the weirdest thing I want to have sex with right now.

      • DOOMco

        not Poppy?

      • SugarFree

        I have a hard time believing Poppy has genitals. Or nipples. Or internal organs.

      • Brochettaward

        So, like, Gumby?

      • commodious spittoon

        Poppy is Gabriel from Constantine ?

      • SugarFree

        Just a solid pink mass.

      • RBS

        Well, as long as it is pink.

      • Q Continuum

        Must be self-lubricating.

      • DOOMco

        “but her mouth was very much in play.”
        -F. Reynolds

      • John Titor

        Uh huh, sure.

    • Q Continuum

      Even weirder still:

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tonEFBu1K1c

      Can’t tell if it’s weirder that she’s eating live bugs, or if she’s eating her pet. The lengths some people will go to for attention. Let the fapping begin.

      • Vhyrus

        I think I hear HM frantically trying to get into her place in that last video.

      • DOOMco

        fearection.

    • Q Continuum

      I think this girl could be the new Glib mascot; I personally like her a helluva lot more than Poppy.

      • bacon-magic

        This was all a setup you… you….sugarfree sicko sycophant!
        *runs to room and slams door twice*

    • bacon-magic

      W T F
      Ruined.
      *bacon jumps into frying pan and self cooks*

      • Tundra

        *shrugs and gets eggs from the fridge*

  9. John Titor

    With almost a year past I kind of want a window to an alternate universe where Clinton got elected.

    • commodious spittoon

      Write it up. Could be a regular feature here. “365 Days Later”.

      • SugarFree

        Yes. Work on it.

      • John Titor

        The problem is I can’t think of anything really interesting. The only outcomes I could think of is a fawning, extremely masturbatory media, a no-fly zone over Syria, really, really bad relations with Russia, plenty of administration corruption and maybe a shittier version of Obamacare getting shoved through with RINO support.

      • This Machine

        That’s the thing, right?

        Half of the sturm und drang we’ve seen exploding all over anything political in the last year has been due to the left coming completely unhinged over Trump’s come-from-behind victory.

        Does anyone really think the Stupid Party would give us such endless entertainment had Herself won the election?

      • John Titor

        I think you’d probably see some Tea Party-esque protests by various Trump-supporting groups, maybe even have the unions start kicking up some dirt, but nothing on par with, say, the Women’s March. Way less political violence (especially due to the nature of Trump being an underdog, which somewhat negates the MASSIVE AMYGDALA FREAKOUT that spawned from the Chosen One’s losing) and probably some restructuring in the Republican Party in an attempt to ensure someone like Trump never wins the candidacy again (which would not kill off the growing populism and inner party conflicts that would emerge).

      • R C Dean

        Does anyone really think the Stupid Party would give us such endless entertainment had Herself won the election?

        Since they wanted her to win, I would say “no”.

      • SugarFree

        All suggestion that Russia interfered with the elections would be ignored and the media would be calling anyone who persisted a crank, a loony, and a lunatic. We would be on the ground in Syria by now, I think, a Clinton family go-to move to distract from some inevitable scandal that even the MSM couldn’t ignore. Anthony Wiener would be dead, somehow hanging himself with all his fingers broken and his wrist tied behind him back. DWS would be the head of the DNC. The Republicans would still hold both the House and the Senate and “obstructionist” would still be the meanest thing you could say. Trump would be a laughingstock, Tweeting increasing desperate and deranged things in a bid to get everyone to pay attention to him, maybe trying to fund a lawsuit over the emails. Steve Bannon would be dead in a ditch somewhere, a gallon of rotgut leaking from his ruptured stomach. The regulatory agencies would be running the country while the media tried to make Hillary look human and support her failed plan to get a fucked half-step toward socialized medicine passed without Warren, Schumer, and Harris in the Congress because she salted them through her administration so that they couldn’t threaten her in 2020. Hillary remains in campaign mode and her health is increasingly worse. She hasn’t been seen in public for anything length of time in months and our recurring joke is that she is actually dead.

      • John Titor

        I don’t see ground warfare as a likelihood in Syria, even with Clinton in charge. According to the emails Clinton’s shitty foreign policy MO was to appear ‘tough’, mostly due to her massive insecurities about how she thought people didn’t view female politicians as such. No-fly zones fit that rather perfectly, they give the illusion of power and ‘doing something’ while just aggravating conflict but also avoiding extremely negative responses domestically. ‘Boots on the ground’ still can’t be sold to the American public overall, even by the Lightworker, and would probably be more a scandal than whatever else she was trying to cover up.

      • John Titor

        *Especially, I might add, if she pulls a Benghazi again, but this time with troops. Even a media completely on her side wouldn’t been able to cover for her if, say, ISIS pulled a Black Hawk Down.

      • SugarFree

        True. It probably would be something with good optics but useless to actually do anything.

      • wdalasio

        I’m not as sanguine about it as you are. I think Clinton, even more than Trump, would have been eager to prove her manhood. And the Russians were operating in the middle of what she was prepared to designate a no-fly zone.

      • Chipwooder

        “Steve Bannon would be dead in a ditch somewhere, a gallon of rotgut leaking from his ruptured stomach. ”

        Still is a pretty decent bet to happen before the end of 2018.

      • John Titor

        Joke’s on you guys, Bannon’s been dead since 2015, and has secretly been operated by a gaggle of surprisingly nationalist cats.

      • Chipwooder

        Ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Kätzchen!

      • Gerry Rigg

        Sieg Miau!

      • Fatty Bolger

        Sounds about right.

      • Hyperion

        Nothing about Slick Willy roaming the halls of the Capital building late at night tushy squeezing nubile young interns?

      • SugarFree

        I didn’t figure I needed to state the obvious. 🙂

      • Hyperion

        Pussy grabbing would suddenly be in vogue with the media again.

      • SugarFree

        Or just not mentioned at all. And the Weinstein story wouldn’t have broke. Rose McGowen would just be another unstable aging actress like thousands of others.

      • Bobarian LMD

        People would wonder who Harvey Weinstein even was.

      • R C Dean

        And the Weinstein story wouldn’t have broke.

        Absolutely not. First, without the yearlong pussygrabbing freakout, it would have never broken cover. And if it had, with Bill in the White House, the media would have buried it.

        Speaking of the dog that didn’t bark, given the portrayal of Trump as a deranged sex baboon before the election, isn’t it odd that not one rumor of his misbehaving in the White House has surfaced?

      • Somalian Road Corporation

        There are rumors. They just involve Trump and Ivanka. So, you know, solid, grounded stuff.

      • Hyperion

        I can’t even imagine how insufferable the media would be right now. I can just see McCain and Graham down on their knees licking the royal cankles, ewww!

    • Hyperion

      Hell?

    • mindyourbusiness

      John, are you really into masochism?

    • robc

      Don’t you have the ability to visit the alternate timelines?

      • Vhyrus

        he might not be able to get back. There’s a scary thought.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder
      • Q Continuum

        Which one is Killary?

      • Hyperion

        The one with cankles.

      • Bobarian LMD

        Kankles?

    • Juvenile Bluster

      There would be world peace, universal healthcare, and a 0% unemployment rate. Duh.

      • Q Continuum

        Free blowjobs?

      • SugarFree

        Blowjobs? What are those? #darkesttimeline

      • Zunalter
      • Bobarian LMD

        Something that involves getting choked by a woman with a strap-on.

      • Chipwooder

        They’re never really free.

      • Hyperion

        Don’t forget free college for everyone and finally an end to slavery.

    • Q Continuum

      Hillary playing dirty politics? Unpossible. Twitter tells me that she’s the most trustworthy, selfless public servant ever simply filled to the brim with integrity. Only after that evil, vagina-hating Drumpf destroyed her purely for the joy of crushing a woman did she reveal Drumpf’s dirty dealings because she cares so much for the country.

    • Chipwooder

      There’s also this:

      Nick Short
      ‎@PoliticalShort

      Interesting that the leaks w/ info so far have gone to @evanperez & @KenDilanianNBC…both connected to Fusion GPS http://nypost.com/2017/11/06/robert-muellers-leak-problem/

      1:18 PM – Nov 7, 2017

      • R C Dean

        That is interesting.

        Mueller is dirty. He may or may not be intentionally colluding with the Dems, but he obviously has a conflict of interest that has driven everything he has done, from who he staffed with, to what he investigates, to his tolerance for leaks from his operation, including those that violate federal law.

    • bacon-magic

      This world is insane…the fact that Hillary is still not in jail is just icing on the shit cake.

    • R C Dean

      Starting to look like a setup.

      It stunk of a setup from day one.

  10. Zunalter

    Finally someone was able to capture the likeness of Sarah Huckabee Sanders. Needz moar brow ridge though…

    • Chipwooder

      Finally Unfortunately someone was able to capture the likeness of Sarah Huckabee Sanders.

      • Zunalter

        IDK, many people put her in the “would” camp…

      • RBS

        *googles*

        Maybe? It’s hard to tell. Google image search is not kind to her.

      • Chipwooder

        Google image search? I’d say God wasn’t kind to her.

      • RBS

        Surely there is a picture somewhere where she doesn’t look like she’s having a stroke?

      • SugarFree

        I can’t find one. Happens when your blood has been completely replaced by donut glaze.

      • Chipwooder

        BTW, I replied on a thread that was likely long dead – funny that you went to VES. I went to STC, played against you guys in football.

  11. Raven Nation

    Hahahaha: company belonging to self-righteous, denouncer of capitalism, and heir-to-the-throne gets exposed with climate-change conflict of interest:

    http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-41901175

    • Hyperion

      Inbreeding causes all sorts of things besides being really ugly.

    • RAHeinlein

      I’m just glad I live in a country where that can’t happen!

      • Hyperion

        Yeah, there’s never been anyone in this country who has supported cronyized green initiatives in an attempt to skim off their fair share of tax payer money. Good thing for that.

    • Playa Manhattan

      Sustainable Forestry Management of Bermuda?

      Sounds legit.

  12. Chipwooder

    BTW, where’s the next installment of Secret Nazi President?

    • commodious spittoon

      It’s where you’d least exist if.

      MUAHAHAHAH

      • commodious spittoon

        Ugh.

      • Private Chipperbot

        /shrugs. Still works.

      • ChipsnSalsa

        Sort of like these guys

  13. Zunalter

    Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.

    I think for much of SF’s fic, the “art” that most uninitiated see is their own hands, twisted into claws, hungrily grasping for their eyes.

  14. The Late P Brooks

    “Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.”

    *clamps hands tightly over eyes*

  15. The Late P Brooks

    JINX

    • Zunalter

      Great minds?

      • Caput Lupinum

        Damaged minds.

    • Vhyrus

      Also, a man with a full frontal neck tattoo did something good. I may have to rethink my entire life.

      • Sean

        I had a similar thought. Now I can’t prejudge neck tat people. Fuck it. He’s an anomaly.

      • Nephilium

        The exception that proves the rule?

      • Number.6

        Don’t make me start on the origins and etymology of that phrase ….

      • robc

        Will it literally make your head explode?

      • R C Dean

        He was exactly the right person in the right place at the right time. Think about it: Some guy with a rifle runs up to his truck (I haven’t actually seen the vehicle, but it has to be a pickup) and says “Chase that guy down”. And he says “OK” and does it. Not many people would have just hit the gas without wasting a lot of time in that situation, but he did. Poor impulse control may lead to unfortunate tattoos, but it also gave us the right guy for the job.

      • Lachowsky

        A friend of mine and his now ex-wife got each others names tattooed on their necks. I make fun of him for it constantly.

      • ChipsnSalsa

        If you get your wife’s name tattooed on your neck, she will be your ex-wife at soon enough.

      • bacon-magic

        So…you want me to call out the name tattooed on your neck? /random bar fling

      • Agent Cooper

        To be fair, it’s probably the best neck tattoo I’ve ever seen.

      • ChipsnSalsa

        I’m seeing it as a steer skull with the horns wrapping under the jaw line. Something else going on lower and to the outside that I can’t make out.

    • Q Continuum

      Top. Men.

    • Vhyrus

      Well lets see which glib doesn’t check in this afternoon. Well know who our man is.

      • DOOMco

        I’m here but will be loading the moving truck.

      • RBS

        Not in the State of Arkansas.

    • Agent Cooper

      So being naked is a sexual act?

      I mean, I get what he was going for, but does his request meet the solicitation standard?

    • Agent Cooper

      owned by a licensed massage the rapist.

      I think I found the issue.

      • Zunalter

        I have a massage therapist friend who told me that you can tell which places go for that sort of thing when they call themselves “masseuses”.

        Also, she is like a 3/10 and yet has many horror stories of being solicited for a happy ending. I guess it is more about the thrill of having some stranger wank you off than being wanked off by someone attractive?

  16. Hyperion

    What if… nothing is like we think it is? What if, let’s start from the start. There was a Clinton dynasty, followed, by a Bush dynasty, followed by an Obama dynasty, followed by a Trump dynasty. What if there is a secret cabal who actually does decide elections selected from a pool of modern royalty and it really was just Trump’s turn? Hillary, and all the rest were in on it and Trump was going to win all along, and will win again in 2020? After all, the Clinton’s already had their turn. Hillary was just a prop all along and was never going to win. I should send this to Alex Jones.

    • Lachowsky

      What if there is a secret cabal who actually does decide elections selected from a pool of modern royalty and it really was just Trump’s turn?

      There is a relatively small group of powerful party apparatchiks who for a long time have had a string influence on who gets nominated for highost national office. I think Trump proves they are not all powerful though. He certainly wasn’t their pick.

      • Hyperion

        Well, I was joking, but I bet Alex Jones fans would buy into it. The elite political establishment all definitely hate Trump, Republicans included.

      • bacon-magic

        So…you want me to call out the name tattooed on your neck? /random bar fling

      • bacon-magic

        I’ve been gilmore’ed by this site!

      • Vhyrus

        Blaming your loss on a long standing and well known set of rules? The Democratic Party could use someone like you!

      • Hyperion

        Calling edit fairy on behalf of bacon…

      • SugarFree

        She passed out drunk an hour ago.

      • Hyperion

        Damnit, I hate how all you privileged one percenters just pass out drunk at noon. I mean, except for edit fairy, edit fairy is exempt from my envy…

      • F. Stupidity Jr.

        I thought you were doing a callback. Fuck it, just say you were doing a callback! NEVER ADMIT A MISTAKE.

      • Hyperion

        Somehow, ‘going to call out the name tattooed on your neck’ was oddly irrelevant to the post I made. But I mean it is Glibs, so I couldn’t just assume.

    • Ted S.

      Well, in Florida the great-grandmother would only be about 50.

  17. Nephilium

    Just in case you needed an excuse to come to Cleveland… one of the local rags put together a not terrible beer guide. Have I mentioned we have a lot of breweries here?

    • Vhyrus
      • Nephilium

        They finally tore down one of the buildings in that video.

    • Q Continuum

      The Indians almost won last year.

      • Nephilium

        We’re aware… A friend of mine asked me to put money down on the Indians to win the Series this year because of that. It was looking like a good bet up until the playoffs.

        The Cavs almost won last year as well.

        The Browns… Well… they technically have a team.

      • Ted S.

        They’ll beat the Packers.

      • ChipsnSalsa

        A stiff breeze would beat the Packers.

      • Nephilium

        You underestimate the Browns ability to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.

        Although if there’s an idea the Browns may do well, there is a dive bar down the street (that somehow got a decent tap list) that pours free drinks when the Browns score.

      • mexican sharpshooter

        The Browns… Well… they technically have a team.

        You mean the Baltimore Ravens?

      • F. Stupidity Jr.

        Why would fans in Cleveland cheer for a team in Baltimore?

  18. Hyperion

    NOT BLACK

    Well, she’s totes out of the club.

    • ChipsnSalsa

      Shelby is a dude. A for real dude.

    • Vhyrus

      It’s a he. Also,

      Steele is most well-known for his 1990 essay collection The Content of Our Character, a meditation on race relations in America, which earned him the National Book Critics Circle Award for general nonfiction. In 2007, he wrote A Bound Man: Why We are Excited about Obama and Why He Can’t Win. Steele also writes op-eds for The Wall Street Journal.

      Not exactly solid credentials we’re dealing with here.

    • Raston Bot

      “We like to say that the real black is the black on the street corner doing drugs, selling drugs and shooting each other,” Steele said. “We don’t question their blackness, but we question the blackness of those who climb out of those situations, who join the American mainstream, who become successful.”

  19. Chipwooder

    Martha McSally announced that she’s running for Flake’s seat.

    • Hyperion

      So which is she more like, Flake or McCain? There’s something going on in AZ. It’s some alien blobs mind controlling the population, isn’t it? No doubt escaped from some secret military base.

      • Chipwooder

        No idea. I threw the news out there so our Arizona contingent could inform us as to whether she’s horrendous, or merely bad.

      • Vhyrus

        I’ve never heard of her but her name sounds like a very unimaginative porn alias.

      • R C Dean

        Claim to fame is she flew Warthogs out of Saudi. As I recall, she challenged the requirement that she dress to Islamic standards when off base, and won.

        Sharp and energetic, but a pretty conventional thinker when it comes to policy and politics from what I have seen. I’ve met her a couple of times.

      • Q Continuum

        IOW, better than Flake or McCain.

      • Number.6

        Controlled by one of the hive queens captured on Klendathu.

      • Q Continuum

        Would you like to know more?

      • R C Dean

        She’s pretty solid as a person. While her politics are more pragmatic than principled/ideological, but she hasn’t been hysterically chasing media approval, so I would say not much like McCain.

      • Vhyrus

        A cursory glance at her page gives me the impression that shes your standard cookie cutter republican with no real backbone for anything.

      • R C Dean

        Sounds about right.

      • mexican sharpshooter

        Agreed.

  20. Chipwooder

    Roy Halladay’s private plane has crashed into the Gulf of Mexico. The pilot and sole occupant was killed. They aren’t saying if it’s him yet, but seems likely. Hell of a pitcher.