It's a bit of small strike zone, but eventually the players have to adjust.
"Right off the bat, there's a bit of a strike against you being a reality star," he says.
Given the man's threats against Israel and his denial of the Holocaust, this bit of scheduling struck some as unbearably outrageous.
A bit of controversy struck Dr. Marsden in 1998 when he announced that it was possible that an asteroid could crash into Earth in 2028.
For me that bit of nonsense struck such a false note it made me irritated with the film tout court – a shame.
Ben Zimmer, the language columnist for The Boston Globe — he has never been called Zimmo to his face — said in an e-mail that Wednesday's bit of Fred Speak "strikes me as a playful ad hoc formation, possibly influenced by such cartoonish words as 'whammo' and 'blammo,' onomatopoetically suggesting an explosion".
What was notably absent in the Yankees' clubhouse after the 2-0 loss in Game 2 was self-recrimination; rather, hitters kept talking about how exceptional Hudson was, slicing off bits of the strike zone with four different pitches, changing speeds, keeping almost every pitch in the lowest quadrant and out of harm's way.
"Umpires made a conscious effort to try to give a little bit of a higher strike," he said.
And there's the inevitable sorrel, cheerful and bustling, but the family have been on a bit of a sorrel strike since I rather overdid things last year.
The evening's festivities got underway with a bit of theatre: eight Strike Debt members performed a dramatized call to action, growling as they bounced around the room enumerating the evils of the debt market and assuring their listeners, "You are not a loan".
