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...just last year, when he had to talk about a team others picked to finish first, he frowned. Nah, being the frontrunner, that ain't for Joe. Not his style, you know what I mean. Best to lay low, you see, play it cool for a while, and then sneak up on everyone around October...

Author: By Michael K. Savit, | Title: I've Got A Secret (Or) Say It Ain't So, Joe | 9/16/1977 | See Source »

...group of jocks stand on the Weld stairs. "Soccer!" one shouts, "What kind of wussy sport is that? Look no hands! Nah, I'm just shittin' ya." His companions laugh. Someone spills a half-empty can of warm beer all over the steps. It runs down to the pavement and puddles at the feet of a pretty blonde, surrounded by six or seven men. She is listening to them, but the look in her eyes says she really isn't there...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: That Velveeta-Like Sameness | 9/12/1977 | See Source »

...thrown out of Outward Bound in his thirteenth summer--for taking a penknife on his solo. Shapiro once went out with woman whose sole saving grace was here last name, which was DuPont. DuPont. Shapiro rolled it around on his tongue, and it always came out--hydro-carbon effluents--nah, it came out money. Money to travel. Money to write. Money to never have to worry about money again. And she loved him, in her insipid, lobotomized little way, or so they imagined. He went out to dinner with her parents--no take-out Chinese from those Chiang gang...

Author: By Joseph Dalton, | Title: Any last words, buddy? | 5/27/1977 | See Source »

This was it...I only hoped it would work. Little droplets of perspiration broke out on my forehead, ran down my neck and made it to the outside. Did I try to stop them? Nah. That's the kind of guy I am. I opened my mouth to yell out. "Telephone...

Author: By Peter Kaplan, | Title: Candy is randy but pasta is fasta | 12/8/1976 | See Source »

...Nah - my disgust with the Riverfront boys goes beyond any sort of baseball rationality. For instance, I always hated those Cincinnati fans--every one of them. I mean, really, year after year since Gilette introduced that fan All Star game balloting system I have dutifully cast my 10,000 votes per season for Larry Bowa, the Phillies' incredibly sure-handed and now bat-strong shortstop...

Author: By James Cramer, | Title: You Don't Have to be a Sox Fan to Hate the Reds | 10/10/1975 | See Source »

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