Baseball comes to teach us the difference between speaking in anger and accomplishing with speech what one aims to. If you swing the bat at a pitch as hard as you can, you are bound to miss. Swing slowly, deliberately, and you will strike the ball with grace. If you miss, there will be other times to try to connect with your purpose. It takes work not to speak in anger, and just as a work that is worked over will be better than one that is made in haste, so too speaking when not angry will get the job done better than letting fly.