But for once he was inadequate, as the Mets fell, 5-3, thethe Arizona Diamondbacks.
Mr Gates now says that the GBI shield he once promoted is inadequate.
The latest Ofsted inspection in April described the school once again as "inadequate", although inspectors said there had been some progress in response to earlier inspections.
Roy Keane once moaned that inadequate shopping opportunities made footballers' Wags Sunderland-resistant but he was ignoring the frequent British Airways Newcastle-Heathrow shuttles; not to mention the former airport's daily Emirates flight bound for Dubai's miles of air-conditioned malls.
The latest inspection, which took place earlier in April, described the school once again as "inadequate", although inspectors said there had been some progress elsewhere in response to earlier inspections.
When the government reacted to the riots by scapegoating anyone even vaguely involved, it became clear, once again, how inadequate and out of touch their political points of reference were.
In his urgency to get the attention of all the Americans whose blood pressure and cholesterol levels he would like to lower, does Oz, despite his preternatural talent for tackling a hundred things at once, sometimes show inadequate vigilance?
It has been castigated by the Commons education select committee for its apparent inability to identify problems in Birmingham's Trojan horse schools, and for downgrading its ratings from outstanding to inadequate once the schools were at the centre of a media and political furore.
Competent enough in peacetime, Alger proved inadequate once the conflict with Spain began.
Once the currently inadequate drug arsenal is rebuilt, $US1.5 billion will be required every decade that follows.
