All of the other scouts figured to be looking at Leetch, who turns 36 today.
Jake Westbrook, dealt from Montreal to the Yankees in the Hideki Irabu trade, showed good stuff and poise, and scouts figure that by late this season or sometime in 2001, he will be ready to contribute in the major leagues as a No. 4-type starter.
The lowest level of oil-business dealmakers, landmen scout acreage, figure out who owns the mineral rights and then lease it, paying the owner a bonus plus the promise of a royalty.
A handful of scouts even figured him for a bust.
She used it as part of a strategy aimed at persuading voters that he was not the earnest, Eagle Scout-like figure they had been led to believe, but rather was an ambitious politician willing to lie to enhance his image and leery of taking any stand that might alienate them.
But these experiences are one-offs and you've got to do your own scouting to figure out who offers them.
In the novel, the Capote figure is Scout's friend Dill, who lives next door in Maycomb with relatives.
The summer I turned 14, my parents sent me to Boy Scout camp, where I figured I'd be eating regular meals, canoeing, working on my merit badges.
And Albert Pinkham Ryder, in a jewel-like painting titled "The Scout," makes the single figure of a North African horseman both ethnographically accurate and as insubstantial as a mirage.
"The Elf on the Shelf: An Elf's Story," at 8 30, follows Chippey, a North Pole scout who helps Santa figure out whom to put on the naughty and nice lists.
