He seemed to play that straight drive into the stands so well at Old Trafford and both he and the spectators will hope he can continue to do that here.
But I think now there's a cultural negotiation between the joy of the new play that runs straight through for 80 minutes and the opposite need for the experience that is deeper and lengthier and proud to be so.
The whole idea was to play that game straight up and give our team momentum and confidence".
I played that whole straight game... pretending to be straight!
Indeed, it's the straight play that seems on the verge of extinction, at least commercially.
There are jockeys and trainers who determinedly praise their better horses, even in defeat, in the hope of shoring up their stud value, but the champion jockey will never be able to play that game with a straight face and instead offers a downbeat assessment of the horse he will probably ride in next month's Derby.
First, call a play that has a player running straight left or right.
As if in reply, the cap guy says, "Play that 16th-note groove —" "... Just straight," finishes another guitarist, from another video, before the cap guy resurfaces, hitting an E9 chord.
gives way to a straight-up morality play that has echoes of "Grosse Pointe Blank," a movie in which Mr. Cusack played another hit man who carried some existential baggage in additional to lethal hardware.
Some of the regulars who came through to play there were Paul Johnson, Paul Anthony, Mixin' Marc, DJ Colette, and Slater Hogan... but my favourite was the local DJ Impact, known for playing that straight-up Chicago house.
