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...that the game has with its die-hard fans. Baseball, more than any other sport, depends on a complete 162-game season to maintain the continuity of its records. Not since the 1930s had baseball witnessed such a fan-friendly display of power hitting as this season. Conspiracy theorists mutter darkly about a livelier ball, while other analysts point to depleted pitching staffs and new homer-haven ball parks. Baseball's most hallowed record, Roger Maris' 61 homers in 1961, was in danger of being eclipsed. Five marquee-idol sluggers (Matt Williams, Ken Griffey, Frank Thomas, Barry Bonds and Albert...
This doesn't means that you won't have a blast at the movie. It just means that occasionally you'll mutter to yourself "this is a bit much" rather than dismissing it all as a spoof...
Potential tantrum defused. Gilbert went quietly to his demise thereafter, although he did drop-kick his racket into the net after the final point and mutter a few Gallic epithets. But Gangji, 41, one of the top professional umpires in tennis, chose to ignore this final frisson of petulance...
...some reason, America is obsessed with stories of the outre. Consumers of the news media have developed a "Beavis and Butthead" mentality. They watch from their living room sofas as the world marches by on their television screens. They love to ridicule the things they see and mutter asinine commentary to one another. (Hunh hunh....Tonya Harding sucks....hunh hunh hunh....He said penis....hunh hunh hunh...
...understated playing. But then it becomes % much too timid. It says that the death threat hanging over gays commands our sympathy for them. It renounces character shadings for easy good guys (Andy's huge family, each one of them amazingly accepting) and crumb-bums (his bosses, who can only mutter and sputter). Nothing in the real world is quite so simple as this...