Word: sinkers
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Fastball or Sinker...
...approaches to knowledge” would be familiar enough with these methods to be suspicious upon encountering the hoax—or at least would check their sources. But some of them, less trusting of major media outlets than of a pseudonymous Internet post, bought it hook, line and sinker...
...These guys swallowed the get-big-fast mantra hook, line and sinker," says Ken Cassar, a senior analyst for Jupiter Media Metrix, a research and ratings firm. "They were too ambitious, but they couldn't have grabbed so much venture capital if they weren't. Investors were eyeing IPO riches." Not that either company was particularly frugal with the wealth Wall Street brought. Their combined bonfire consumed more than $860 million, not counting the undisclosed seven-figure sum Webvan paid the San Francisco Giants to sponsor all the cupholders at Pacific Bell Park...
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...course, the pitching has changed. The overhand lob has given way to the filthy, nasty, unhittable curve, riseball, or sinker...