His tackle on Costly, though, both awkward and cynical, perhaps made fans and observers laugh for a second.
It always seemed so to Tug McGraw, who knew how to make fans and keep them for life.
He suffered a series of losses against much lesser players that made fans and doubters alike wonder why he was still on the circuit.
His specific mix of gifts and flaws makes fans and writers uncomfortable, and so we've tried to iron out his eccentricities and cast him, instead, in more familiar terms.
It works like this: Say a Cuban assembly plant wants to import electric and other parts from China to make fans and refrigerators.
They made fans and followers wait hours.
Madonna stated that the concept for the album was to make fans and critics alike remember her music contributions rather than her media controversies.
It was the second LP in his career — the first was 1975's "Metal Machine Music" — that made fans and critics wonder if he was just yanking all of our chains.
