Eccentric as he was – he wrote his lengthy tomes while wearing ear muffs to block out noise – Spencer was a more interesting thinker than his disciples.
In their annual June appointment, the Mets rallied for a 6-2 victony on a soggy Saturday afternoon, after their vintage collapse Friday night, when Luis Castillo muffed a two-out pop fly that allowed the tying and winning runs to score.
It is the schlemiel's avocation and profession to miss out on things, to muff opportunities, to be persistently, organically, preposterously and ingeniously out of place.
Speaking for SNL fans everywhere, I hope she's had some training in how to deliver the opening line, which she muffed last time (which we pointed out way back in FTP [22]) in what could almost be described as Rainier Wolfcastle fashion ("Up and at them"...)...
If we make a dish once, and it turns out anything from a serious muff to a complete hash, then we don't cook it again.
On that pivotal Halloween, he put on his father's suit, adorned the lapel with a paper chrysanthemum plucked from a vase, clapped a derby stuffed with paper on his head, cut a piece out of his mother's muff to fashion a mustache, took his father's cane and set out as a midget Charlie Chaplin.
She pulled a derringer out of her muff and let him have it five times.
With Oliver Pérez pitching in the second inning with the bases loaded and two outs, Reyes muffed a ground ball by Jimmy Rollins, then threw wildly to second.
At 6-5, all Williams needed to do was serve out for the match, but she muffed four easy shots, including a backhand topspin that flew past the backline and sent the set to the tie-breaker.
Little Dap said, popping the nub of the joint in his mouth, taking the gun out of his sweatshirt muff and attempting to hand it over.
