Many say it was undeserved, because the Dodgers didn't even have the best record in the NL West in 1981, but Manager Tommy Lasorda, knowing he already had a playoff spot locked up, cleverly rested many of his regulars in the second half, giving more playing time to guys like Mike Scioscia, Rick Monday and Steve Sax, which gave him a sharp bench in the playoffs.
They lost so badly, in other words, that coming out of the half — down twenty-four, thentirere team outscored to that point by the Mavericks' sharp-shooting bench — the report from the Lakers' locker room ("No one got up and made an impassioned speech") couldn't surprise, however much it disappointed.
No more reliable tackler around Sean Maitland B- Had his moments without managing to make an unanswerable case for a Test place Conor Murray B+ Looked sharp coming off the bench in the last two Tests George North A+ Played every minute of every Test.
That's because the spark and energy was on the bench wearing a sharp steel-gray suit with a black shirt and black tie.
Still, I couldn't imagine my brothers and me wrestling on the living room floor, risking a concussion from the sharp edge of the piano bench, if the stakes were no higher than the last packet of Fleischmann's RapidRise Yeast.
But when I visited, the principal told me the area was off limits: the benches were too sharp to allow children to play near them.
In that instance, Judge Richard Posner, one of the sharpest minds on the federal bench and an outspoken critic of America's troubled patent system, dropped a bombshell by dismissing the case entirely.
Mike Krzyzewski solemnly walked down the sideline to shake the hand of Michigan State Coach Tom Izzo, then walked back toward the Duke bench and made a sharp left.
Moore, selected as the regional's most outstanding player, was sharp early but then watched from the bench with foul trouble as her teammates extended the lead.
Except that Chelsea, with its £50 million striker, Fernando Torres, once again sitting in silence on the bench, had no one as sharp around the net as the Neapolitan imports.
If Iraq and Afghanistan are the remote, sharp edges of the US military's bench saw, then Charleston is its sturdy fulcrum.
