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match fit for the pitch

What does it mean to be match fit?

Are you really capable of being here? If not you'll soon be found out!

Swinging at every pitch

When you negatively and angrily react every time you're angered by someone or something else
Please make your life more pleasant. Don't go swinging at every pitch. Ignore at least some of the small potatoes angering you.

Validation Slow Pitch

A deliberately lobbed social media post tossed right down the middle, inviting former teammates, casual acquaintances, and long-forgotten rivals to unload a barrage of compliments. Typically disguised as hesitation (e.g., “not sure I wanna but…”) despite the poster refreshing the comments like it’s a tie game in the 7th.
Andrew just threw a Validation Slow Pitch on Facebook, opened with ‘not sure I wanna but…’ and by midnight the comments section looked like a postgame award ceremony.

The Angie Quinn Academy of Pitch Precision 

Any a cappella ensemble that prioritizes its principal cantor's true range over those silly flats and sharps on the arrangement staves. ("Angie Quinn" was the love interest in Paul Petersen's 1962 hit record "She Can't Find Her Keys")
Here we go again, no accompanist and a cantor-or-else who doesn't sight-read: Make way for The Angie Quinn Academy of Pitch Precision!

Yaw, pitch, and roll. 

Originally terms used to describe the flight dynamics of an aircraft, they can be used as an idiosyncratic alternative to describe a girl's attributes, i.e., Looks, intelligence, and personality.
Come on Sarah, lot's of boys at school like you. You've got it all! Yaw, pitch, and roll. -Esther De Groot, from Scary Go Round by John Allison

the problem is that people want me to speak at a certain pitch and I will not 

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the problem is that people want me to speak at a certain pitch and I will not