Me, I'm a standby man myself.
And though Gyllenhaal was apparently the standby Spider Man when Tobey Maguire's back injury threatened production on Spider-Man 2, he speaks in a way which suggests he was not especially enamoured of that project.
The England striker is on the seven man standby list for the World Cup, while Bradley is on the one man "please god, don't let him get injured" list for the USA.
Unlike other standbys in the men's color wheel, like black, navy, hunter, camel and so on, this blue is hard to pin down.
Defoe, who only made the seven-man standby list, had spoken of his disappointment when the announcement was made, while claiming his record stood for itself.
Around 2 30 p.m., Ms. Gotbaum asked about using another passenger's ticket to get on a 2 58 flight for which she had been given a standby reservation — a man had apparently offered to give her his seat — and when she was refused, she exploded.
"Are we still in the war phase," the younger man asked, "or the peacekeeping phase?" "We're in the standby mode," the older man, a master sergeant, replied.
One of them had no experience of any kind in death-penalty cases; the other had once been standby counsel for a man who was defending himself.
DETROIT — Overruling the wishes of a Nigerian man accused of trying to use explosives in his underwear to blow up a transcontinental airliner over Detroit last Christmas, a federal judge on Thursday ordered that the man's standby lawyer receive documents related to the prosecution's case.
He was on standby for the 2014 World Cup but did not make Roy Hodgson's final 23-man squad.
