He paid full price for some, but bargained others down ruthlessly, I was told, offering 50% or less of the asking price.
Time will tell if offering tickets before the interior's finished is a bit of a braggadocio move.
When I ask them if they'd eat a dog, they look at me with incredulity and emphatically say, "No!" When I ask them why they wouldn't eat a dog, they can't really tell me, offering statements laden with dismissive phrases, such as "Oh, I know they suffer but I love my burger".
"I resign," Mr. Watanabe told reporters, offering no apology in his opening remarks at a Tokyo news conference.
Life is too short, he told them, offering the early deaths of his brother and his first and second wives as proof.
Were you bad?' ") "I think jocks are taking on a new status symbol now," Johnny Damon, formerly known as the Caveman, told me, offering a contrary opinion.
"You can have one girlfriend or three," my divorced father once told me, offering advice, as usual, that only applied to him.
"People are making an extra effort to be at the ground," Delhi chief executive Amrit Mathur told ESPN Cricinfo, offering a simple reason for the popularity of Mumbai's matches.
THROUGHOUT his night of interrogation he kept silent, Mr. Abas said he tells them, offering nothing but a prayer to God.
"It was the cold that did this, I think," he told me, offering up his own theory, as patients often do.
(The lack of familiarity extends to the players' wives' section, behind home plate, where, Sarah Fuld told me, "I have people ask, like, 'You went to boarding school? Why did you do that? Were you bad?' ") "I think jocks are taking on a new status symbol now," Johnny Damon, formerly known as the Caveman, told me, offering a contrary opinion.
