Word: thanking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...least 271 players -- among them such lackluster performers as Giants pitcher Bud Black, who has a career losing record, and Minnesota Twins infielder Mike Pagliarulo, whose lifetime batting average is a pathetic .236 -- have joined the millionaires' club. While players have mainly free agency to thank, they have also been able to score big bucks through salary arbitration. Much to the dismay of owners, labor mediators called in to settle contract disputes have awarded players hefty pay hikes...
...success -- his house in the Hollywood hills, for example, where he lives with his girlfriend Darlene Ortiz and their six-month-old baby boy; his collection of half a dozen sports and antique cars; his trips to such spots as Hawaii and Asia. But he knows whom to thank for it all. "It wasn't a cop or social worker who got me here," he says. "It was my boys, like the ones now on death row, who are the reason I'm doing it. That's why there's a real allegiance to the street in my music...
...What? Jeez-us Curr-hrist! He's fifty! He isn't, is he? Bloody hell! That makes me old!' That's what they want. They want to use me as a gauge." He laughs and winks. "So use me as a gauge, and have a good time, and thank you very much for noticing...
...most curious cut is Goodbye, Carmen, a "tribute" to the foreign housekeepers who toil anonymously for the rich and famous: "Thank you for staying with us for a while/ With your pretty smile/ And someday you'll get home again." It is an earnest effort but comes off as a bit condescending...
...hands him a cigarette,which he sniffs deeply. "Mmmmmmm. That smellswonderfull. Thank you very much."Thomas tucks the gift behind his ear-another day, another accessory--and flutters off to meet Paulo at The Coffee Connection...