Sunday was best known as an exciting base-runner, regarded by his peers as one of the fastest in the game, even though he never placed better than third in the National League in stolen bases.
Democrats have been pushing Republicans to take a position on repealing the health care bill amid polling evidence that that is a surefire way of exciting Democratic base voters.
Mr Rove has told conservative activists that the administration is preparing to send the names of more than 20 judicial candidates to Capitol Hill a sure way of exciting the base.But there is an air of desperation about much of this.
"It's definitely exciting our base".
Primaries, after all, are all about exciting the base and creating as much enthusiasm as possible.
The main focus of this special issue will be on the new and exciting therapy based on stem cell biology, tissue engineering, and gene therapy technology toward regenerative medicine.
It uses tunes written by all members, but there's lots of interactivity and lots of improvisation; it can be exciting stuff, based in jazz's post-60's experimental energy.
Buried away in one of the BBC's lesser known West End office blocks, George Wright's Rapid Application Development team have been quietly building some exciting prototypes based on BBC content.
And one of the reasons they did was that the rural gentry then controlling Parliament decided that killing games in small, closed, city places — cellars, courtyards, back alleys — were bad for poor people, exciting their basest instincts and encouraging them to lives of drink, gambling, violence, and all manner of Dickensian dissipation.
It is smart and exciting, but based as it is on the comic book of the same name, and given the track record of comic-based films, it could have been a dangerous choice for a woman keen to establish herself as a proper actress.
