Word: whoop
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...baby/ Child, don?t you know, baby/ Don?t you know, baby/ Little girl, little girl, don?t you know/ Please listen to me, baby/ Girl, I?m in love with you so"). But those are just words: the first sound on the cut is a wild falsetto field whoop, then a plaintive "well" exactly an octave lower -as if he were a woman in ecstasy and a man hurting from its lack. His voice rasps like a man whose heart is in his throat, and it?s just been broken...
...words of the immortal Chris Farley: Whoop-de-freakin'-do. Because as far as conflicts of interest go, those analyst portfolios are just the tip of the iceberg...
...because, just over a quarter of the way through his first major league season, there is little surprise about anything he does. Suzuki is named American League Rookie of the Month for April? Ho-hum. Suzuki has back-to-back single-double-triple games? Big whoop. Suzuki rifles a one-hopper from the right-field wall to home plate? Yawn. Suzuki is on pace to break George Sisler's 81-year-old record of 257 hits in a season? Zzzzzzzz. Suzuki imprisons Saddam Hussein, discovers a cure for AIDS and beats up Mike Tyson? You expected less...
...into a success, even with the considerable level of endorphins in my blood right now. When the moment of truth comes, I am pleasantly surprised. I have to follow the list up from the bottom several names (five) before I come to mine. Wow. I suppress a public victory whoop (I came in 40th! I came in 40th!) knowing that it would not be appropriate in the dead-serious atmosphere surrounding the results board. I save my reactions for later, quietly absorbing my place (and the places of my teammates) before moving off out of the hubbub. Later...
...lemony full moon rises above the frozen river, and back in the foothills, coyotes whoop in their companionable way: not the mob-noise of a kill tonight, but a moonlit hootenanny, all the skulkers come together to sing barbershop...