Jeter watched the ball fly as he left the batter's box and gave a big clap as he rounded first base.
"There was no visual expectation, no sound expectation of having lightning or thunder but just very surprisingly there was a big clap, a big bolt of lightning," he said.
Ex.: Pat "big", pat "booty" Clap "big", clap "booty" Pat Bigg", pat "booty" Two claps with no words Pat "oh", pat "yeah" Two claps with no words Pat "big", pat "booty"… and so forth.
However, each hit (out or not), each walk (eventually out or not), and each base passed drove his teammates, coaches, and all of the parents (especially us) into big claps and cheers of support!
He seemed genuinely pleased to see me, and gave me a big hug, clapping my back heartily.
In it, details are either eliminated or enlarged to barn size: there are big hand claps, huge dropouts that spotlight a single word, even sirens.
And I was in front of a large group of highly professional people, most of whom are from either other countries or the United Nations, people that aren't big into clapping, applauding, smiling.
But the track owes its forward momentum to two big hand claps that fall on the second and fourth beats, a flurry of strings, and Bootie Brown, from the Californian rap group the Pharcyde, who performs a long, fevered rap about being a "peace-lovin' decoy".
But certainly at the time, the assembled crowd were on the side of Pollock, aka "Big Man", clapping him in a weirdly muted way, as though nobody was quite sure whether or not this was a joke that would come back and bite them.
