The Yankees are hoping Michael Pineda, out with strained shoulder since May, can contribute sometime this month, but with the Orioles, who bolstered their bullpen by acquiring Andrew Miller from Boston, and the Toronto Blue Jays, who really really could have used a starting pitcher, starting to win regularly, 2014 is looking more like a lost cause for New York.
"These rocks, they can all be reused," Sino says, managing to see something more than a lost cause in the debris.
Yes, she knows that Robert Jordan, from Hemingway's "For Whom the Bell Tolls," will always prove more loyal to a lost cause than to a woman.
While Malcolm viewed the "white press" as more or less a lost cause — its coverage remained largely negative until the day he died — he nevertheless engaged it and, at times, outsmarted it.
Feelings, as always, ran high on both sides of the issue, but more and more it's looking like a lost cause for all the "defenders of traditional marriage".
For them to engage in spending more money to defend a lost cause would be unfortunate to say the least".
It's a better choice than throwing more tax dollars at a lost cause.
The more you meet your emotional needs elsewhere, the more you won't pay that lost cause any attention.
But how much money will the club's American owners be prepared to throw at what looks like a lost cause and, perhaps more to the point, what sort of players could Swansea hope to attract?
To some people, even 150 years after the end of the Civil War, Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee remains a symbol of honor, chivalry and courage; his memory conjures the Old South, a lost cause and a more romantic era.
