Ballsy

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>I deal in code.</strong></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Well code social anxiety <em>and</em> online gaming.</strong></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>What I don't deal in is hockey players.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>And I certainly don't deal in hockey players like Connor Smith. He's brass. He's loud. He's funny and charming and...ballsy.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>I'm about the furthest thing from ballsy someone can find.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Yet Connor doesn't seem to care. From the moment I began working on the player development program for the Baltimore Breakers Connor had led a campaign to win my heart.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>The thing is I don't actually </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>want</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> my heart to be won and the more Connor campaigns the more I resist. And...the more I resist and argue and push back the more I find out that I actually </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>can </em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>be ballsy.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>And the worst thing about </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>that?</em></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>It makes Connor campaign even harder.</span></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p>