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“By the third night you could not walk a step, you couldn’t move your foot without stepping on one emerging out of the ground,” said Lara Danzl, environmental education supervisor of the Vermilion County Conservation District, referring to Brood X’s arrival a couple of weeks ago. “Watching them come out of that nymph exoskeleton with their transparent body and their transparent wings, they’re almost like this white ghost.

Even though you deny what you have been accused of saying, you seem to be issuing a “non-denial denial,” a concept popularized by Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein to describe the evasion and equivocation by Nixon’s Attorney General during the Watergate scandal. (Please, don’t be like John Mitchell.)

“Just make sure I have (the intent) the same every single pitch,” he said, “not just saying, ‘Hey, throw this one over,’ or, ‘Hey, I really just need a strike here.’ No, I’m trying to execute this pitch still, regardless of score or situation, get back to that intense focus in a way, and I think everything else will be cleaned up.”

“Anytime you have that quality of player that shows back up and gets out here in the huddle and just that experience that he brings (it’s good),” Nagy said. “He just has such a quiet calm and confidence to him that you can see the guys out there throwing him the football and the things he’s doing, he just slides on in. The one sneaky thing about A-Rob that I think is pretty cool is No. 1, even if he’s not here, you know he’s working his tail off, and No. 2, he’s always in great shape, and we noticed that today.”