Word: balling
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Atlanta Braves survived against the New York Mets for the National League championship last week consisted of six games decided by a total of seven runs, the last two games comprising 26 innings of struggle more nearly reminiscent of rugby union than of sunlit summer afternoons at the ball park. In the American League, the Boston Red Sox's lightning comeback against the Cleveland Indians in the first round was more histrionic than their testy five-game loss to the hated Yankees, but not remotely as dramatic. No script in baseball comes close to the 80 years of back story...
...down on my bed, close my eyes and imagine Times Square, desolate save for Vladimir and Estragon, the stammering tramps of Waiting for Godot...waiting for the millennium that never comes. And the famous ball--by dint of Zeno's paradox--falls but never reaches its destination. It's an infinitely deferred climax, a perpetually peaking party, an existential rave...
...longtime admirer of Chicago, I can only hope that cooler heads prevail. Atlanta, which is to boosterism what Las Vegas is to ATM machines, has been playing catch-up ball for years. It's just the sort of place that would boast about having the busiest airport, which seems a bit like boasting about having the world's largest traffic jam. Asian cities like Kuala Lumpur and Hong Kong and Shanghai have become Atlanta. Eager to call attention to their commercial muscle, they all have tallest-building projects. They're like a family that moves into a fancy neighborhood...
...help the passage of the President's policies. If you are faithful to that commitment, and somebody asks you a question about policy, you are going to spend a fraction of a second reflecting on the words you choose to make sure that you're moving the ball down the field on behalf of the team that you're a part of. That can come across as stiffness and inauthenticity. I'm not saying that's all of it. I think I have a formal manner. But the easiest thing in the world for me is just to react spontaneously...
...When you see what happened in the All-Star game, when Pedro Martinez has Larry Walker, Sosa and McGwire... I'm not sure there was a foul ball among the three of them. When you have that kind of pitching, it's always going to stop good hitting. That's the intriguing thing about this Series...