TheStar.com - Sports - Big funk for the Big Hurt

TheStar.com - Sports - Big funk for the Big Hurt: "Frank Thomas is a patient man.

Where other sluggers twitch and fiddle with their bats in the on-deck circle, Thomas's pre-batting routine is to take a knee and stand stock still. He's carefully weighing the pitcher's work against the man ahead of him.

'I'm always trying to watch the ball come out of the pitcher's hand. I'm trying to get in that zone. Just trying to get myself an advantage,' Thomas said."

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