Word: mounded
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...White House, you can be on the pitcher's mound or you can be in the catcher's position. Put points on the board. Show people you can govern. Deliver on what you said you were going to deliver on." - On Barack Obama's need for an aggressive agenda to fulfill his campaign promises (Politico...
...intangibles that our scouts really liked,” says Oakland Assistant General Manager David Forst. “Our report said that this guy had confidence, was poised on the mound, and when you get down to the later rounds you’re looking for somebody to compete...
Talent alone doesn't distinguish Zambrano. There's his passion, too. In fact, he's a bit loony, an emotional whirlwind on the mound, pumping fists when things go his way, screaming at himself when the game turns against him. In the past, that intensity has gotten him in trouble. Last season, he fought his catcher in the dugout during a game. Though old habits emerged during his last two regular-season starts, which were awful, for the most part he's learned to reserve his fire for opposing hitters. "When you get into the postseason, there's a passion...
...time their show opened in Philly. Karma certainly hung over the Braves like crepe in the pivotal fifth game, when they rallied from a three-run deficit in the bottom of the ninth, had a man on third base with one out and the profligate Williams on the mound -- and couldn't force home the winning run. That came to the Phillies in the 10th, off the bat of Dykstra, a nerveless sort who gorges on pressure. Rocky whupped Apollo, and it was Philadelphia that was gonna fly now to the World Series. No need for analysis. As the Philadelphia...
...injected her timbers with chemicals to stop the softening. But nothing beats the rot. One morning in August I couldn't drag her anymore. She buried herself right there on the beach. Broke up under her own weight. The sand really did close up over her. I found the mound it made years later and dug. You could still smell the wet wood in the discolored sand underneath. But there was no boat there any more. Reduced to tiny particles. It's what happens to man-made things, around salty water...