Johnson and Brown are over 40 years old and have chronic back conditions -- Brown's is much worse -- and Leiter has had one great start and one subpar one for the Yankees.
Periods of particularly good returns have been followed by subpar ones, and vice versa — a process that statisticians call reversion to the mean.
Either way, I'll say it up front: rarely have I eaten at a restaurant so wildly uneven, where superb creations alternate all too frequently with subpar ones.
These risks are acute for high-achieving students from low-income families: Caroline M. Hoxby, a Stanford economist, found that they often don't apply to elite colleges and wind up at subpar ones, deeply in debt.
The three will be teamed with the captain Kenny Jonsson, who is coming off a subpar year with one power-play goal, the 6-foot-9-inch Zdeno Chara and, when he gets back in four weeks from a broken thumb, 6-6 Eric Cairns.
But for YouTube TV subscribers, that's been a subpar experience — and one that could drive them to rival services, like Hulu with Live TV or DirecTV Now, where fast-forwarding through commercials is supported.
The kids I taught, they didn't receive a subpar education because one of their teachers had a right to a hearing.
Was I being overly optimistic, trading a subpar match for no one?
Stopping Ovechkin, still a threat despite a subpar season, is not a one-man job.
"Erin Andrews interviewed me after the game and I yelled what was obvious: If you put a subpar player across from a great one, most of the time you're going to get one result.
