Word: sinker
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...identity, maybe it's because they didn't have the option of accepting the standard assumptions. Growing up gay, says Six Feet Under creator Alan Ball, "you have a pretty deeply ingrained sense of being an outsider. You don't swallow the mythology of pop culture hook, line and sinker because you know it's not true, for you, anyway...
...through four straight playoff wins over the Yankees. Cabrera is iffy--he doesn't draw enough walks for number crunchers like Epstein, and several top shortstops are on the market. Lowe, the first pitcher to win the final game in all three playoff rounds, may have thrown his last sinker in Boston. As ESPN analyst (and former New York Mets general manager) Steve Phillips puts it, "He's too high maintenance...
...pitching prospect out of Washington and Lee University showed up for a tryout with the New York Giants (the baseball Giants, that is--they hadn't yet decamped for San Francisco). The prospect made a decent showing: three innings, three men on base, no runs scored. Good screwball, nice sinker, not much heat. "If somebody had offered me a Class D professional contract," says the prospect--whose name was Tom Wolfe--many decades later, "I would have gladly put off writing for a couple of decades...
...seems both unfair and nonsensical for Klein to lambaste Democrats--Wesley Clark in particular--for not swallowing hook, line and sinker the Bush Administration's request for $87 billion. Klein himself suggests that the reasons for the invasion of Iraq were, "at the very least, oversold" and that "the post-Saddam period has been marked by ... arrogance and incompetence." JEFFREY LOHN New York City...
...took it line and sinker...