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...Newly acquired Rockies Mike Hampton and Denny Neagle will not petition manager Buddy Bell to pitch only in home games 2. Nobody will come close to breaking Joe DiMaggio's 56-game hitting streak. Not this year; not for 100 years 3. Champagne delivery truck drivers will not have any problem getting past the Yankee Stadium guard they've become friends with over the past three years...
...Costas will be described as "That guy who doesn't know a thing about the game" 2. A pitcher will blame the good Lord for helping him throw the pitch that was hit for a game-winning home run 3. Jason Giambi will hit an inside-the-park home...
...knew that I was in the presence of a legend?! As it happens, I recognized the figure as '60s/'70s musician Dave Mason from previous encounters. The woman, one Laurie Henry (who described herself as his publicist), then proceeded to give me that purest of Hollywood art forms, the pitch: This parking lot encounter had been preordained. The movie "Traffic" had won four Oscars that night - and here I was standing with one of the co-founders of the legendary rock group Traffic! (This was a stretch, and one of 12-seater-limo proportions!) Her final statement would...
...hair cells that respond to higher pitches are the most vulnerable. So White finds women and children particularly difficult to understand. Another early sign is poor discrimination of consonants, which--in both male and female speech--tend to be higher in pitch and lower in intensity than vowels, so that thin, for example, may be indistinguishable from fin or shin...
...comparison with Rubin on divestiture is not the only one O'Neill is up against. Apart from understanding markets, Rubin had perfect pitch when it came to the political ramifications of Treasury decisions - and of course there's the matter of being the executive-branch helmsman of an unprecedented economic boom. So far, O'Neill seems a bit more tone-deaf, especially when it comes to the jittery nerves of the bond markets, and this is in a Republican administration, where the Treasury head is usually the Big Man on Campus...