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Word: sinkers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
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...potential problem is that MLB's excellent website, mlb.com, already satisfies this fix for many fans. For $14.95 per month, you can even watch out-of-market games on the site. Plus, despite baseball's overall economic strength, its television ratings dropped like a sinker last season. Fox's regular-season baseball ratings fell 13%, while ESPN's shrunk 7%, and 15 local networks that broadcast baseball saw double-digit ratings declines for their games. The 2008 World Series, between the Philadelphia Phillies and Tampa Bay Rays, was the least watched in history. In that respect, the new network...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Baseball Takes a Swing at Its Own Network | 1/1/2009 | See Source »

...Will Gore Get on the Trail? I don't understand the blind faith you put in this ex-Vice President and ex-presidential candidate [May 28]. You fell for his global-warming theory hook, line and sinker. Now you fawn over him with your article and his book excerpt. What about the noted scientists who say the global-warming theory is nothing but a load of methane-producing raw sewage? TIME, the rest of the media and all of Gore's Hollywood sycophants have got so far into this that it is inconceivable for them to think that the theory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Oil's Curse | 6/26/2007 | See Source »

...understand the blind faith you put in this ex--Vice President and ex-presidential candidate. You fell for his global-warming theory hook, line and sinker. What about the noted scientists who say the global-warming theory is nothing but a load of methane-producing raw sewage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox: Jun. 11, 2007 | 5/31/2007 | See Source »

...hole is director Wolfgang Petersen, who, having directed The Perfect Storm and Das Boot, knows from terror and tension on top of and beneath the waves. Poseidon could just be the preposterous, grip-the-armrest thriller people love in summer. Or, like the ship, it could be a sinker. -By Belinda Luscombe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Run For Your Lives! The Blockbusters Are Coming! | 4/23/2006 | See Source »

...continue to loosen up in the bullpen, trying to imitate Lowe’s delivery from the stretch. All I need is a devastating sinker, a month without a haircut, and some alcohol problems, and the two of us will be indistinguishable. Actually he’d still have me beat, since I didn’t win the deciding games of all three of Boston’s playoff series last year, nor did I strike out Adam Melhuse and Terrence Long looking to end the heart-throbbing 2003 ALDS against Oakland...

Author: By Stewart H. Hauser, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: TAKE IT TO THE HAUS: A Stroll Through Baseball's Yesteryear | 5/3/2005 | See Source »

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