The Braves, the prevailing assessment went, simply wanted to shed Millwood's salary and took whatever body the Phillies offered.
The pale, bloodless guardians of the English novel, so the argument went, simply couldn't cope with his comedy, his rumbustiousness, his Jewishness, his pungent, balls-out assaults on good taste.
He also won in front of a capacity crowd that booed shots that clipped the net but went Djokovic's way and before an audience that went simply wild when Nadal won the most stunning point of the match, with a lob through his legs after racing back to retrieve Djokovic's own lob.
Years ago, before players had their names on the back of their shirts and before the sale of replica jerseys became a merchandising pot of gold, shirt numbers went simply from 1 to 11, according to position, No. 1 being the keeper, No. 11 a wing.
Another $2.8 million went simply to Google Inc. As for social nets, Obama chose to spend $47,000 on Facebook, versus $11,500 on MySpace.
At the Watermark conference, Sandberg dodged questions about the meeting went, simply saying to Swisher, "I mean, you wrote about it.
