As I carry him around, back aching, ribs bruised, shoulders throbbing, I can't believe I was carrying this much extra weight.
Twenty minutes after midday Sunday at Angel Stadium, his shoulder still throbbing from a 4-day-old fastball, Mike Trout approached the plate and tapped his bat barrel on the home-plate umpire's left leg, as he does before every game's first at-bat.
MSG can induce headaches in sensitive persons; other symptoms will include facial pressure, chest pain, burning sensation on trunk, neck and shoulders and throbbing head.
By the end of the night at 5am, shoulders sore, wrists throbbing and unrecognizable prune-like appendages where my hands used be, I felt fulfilled.
After each foray, we would straggle back to the house, shoulders aching and heads throbbing with the cumulative impact of wave on body and body on board.
We were a long and throbbing sweep of human beings, standing in the bitter cold, pressing shoulder to shoulder all the way from the U.S. Capitol down past the Washington Monument and further, toward the Lincoln Memorial.
He managed to win, if not the throbbing hearts of voters, at least their shrugging shoulders, only after two consecutive minority governments, during which he and the fractious opposition parties together proved him to be triumphantly faute de mieux.
If a stranger steps on your foot, you'd probably shrug your shoulders and assure him that no harm has been done, even if your toes are throbbing like crazy.
