Word: slider
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...Still, it's hard not to have a soft spot for the iPhone. The problematic launch of the iPhone 3G on July 11 was unfortunate. But once you've tapped around the browser for even a few minutes or played with the slider that lets you fast-forward or rewind voice messages in the phone's visual voicemail, it's easy to see why millions of people are sold. The iPhone has the most elegant user interface of any phone I've seen, and its add-on apps make it more than just a toy you'll soon outgrow. What...
...mixing it up pretty well,” senior catcher Matt Kramer said. “He’s got a pretty good slider. He can spot that well on the outside corner. He was doing a great job of doing that and spotting up and working ahead of people...
Shortly after Boston Red Sox closer Jonathan Papelbon delivered his signature slider to strike out Seth Smith of the Colorado Rockies for the final out of the World Series last night, Harvard’s Red Sox faithful poured out of every crevice of the campus to join in on the festivities happening in the Square. With the Harvard Band leading the way, Sox fans cheered their second World Series title in four years, proudly chanting the names of their icons and providing perhaps the loudest rendition of Neil Diamond’s “Sweet Caroline?...
Fastball, fastball, slider. He threw early strikes, swinging strikes, and then nipped at the corners until then—there—broke the tight inside slider that left six Tigers knock-kneed and confounded. Five of Cole’s strikeout victims walked away after called third strikes...
Other kids experimented with a slider, which usually just meant they were throwing sidearm, or imagined they could throw a splitter if they could...just...fit their fingers around the ball, or proclaimed “Yo, did you see the movement on that knuckleball!” And there were plenty of curveball dilettantes...