He's a young guy who works hard. He's not just scraping by in the ninth inning. He's going out there and dominating hitters and people in the stands want to see that in a ninth-inning guy.
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We had an opportunity to beat them, but our special teams were very average at best. We just could not score on the power play, and that's how they beat us. They scored power-play goal after power-play goal when they needed it. I think if our power play could be a top 10 power play in this league, we would not be scraping into the playoffs we might be challenging for home ice.
Anybody interested can help. We need woodworking, metalworking and paint scraping. The more community involvement the better it will be.
This is no time for bowing and scraping. This is no time for buck dancing and genuflecting. Our people are dying in Iraq, are being drowned in New Orleans, and you're going to sit around scared
If we have to do some things that people say -- you know, 'you're just scraping over the past, you're giving us all this shocking stuff, why should our children have to see it on television' Let me tell you that the main consideration on the other side in our minds is saving the lives of American men and women who are on the line,
I clawed the stuff out bit by painful, pink bit, ... until my knife was sunk into the leg bone up past the hilt. It made dreadful scraping noises - I felt like I could feel it in the center of my bones. A passing metaphor to explorers of the deep wilds of Africa does not seem out of place here - there was a definite Heart of Darkness quality to this. How much more interior can you get, after all, than the interior of bones It's the center of the center of things.
Television is now so desperately hungry for material that they're scraping the top of the barrel.
I was able to support myself by acting alone about six years ago. Until then, I was just scraping by.
They have been painting the barn red and white . . . . chasing skunks from the stage, clearing bird nests from the spotlights, scraping mildew from costumes and very gingerly, in the manner of city slickers, shooing snakes out of the yard.
She talked me into taking my car down there and sure enough I could hear a log scraping the car underneath. We were riding together a couple of days later and I heard a terrible rumble in the bottom of my car. I told her it was her turn to walk and get help. It wasn't too funny at the time, but now it is.
You see what we're putting out there. Give them credit. They're scraping and scraping. We were just one hit away, which has basically been the story of our season, one hit away from breaking some games open.
I was happy, I wasn't beaten, and I lacked nothing. But it wasn't what people expect - it was very much sort of pinching and scraping. I don't know how my mother did it.
When the market is low such news (rate cut) push up the stocks a great deal. But now, when the bourse is scraping its highs, it is hard to spark up more than a short-term trend.
If we don't start moving, we're going to be scraping the bottom of the barrel, ... You lose people every now and then if you wait.
Naturally we've talked about giving him a more direct feed because right now he is scraping the Citizen ICAM Web site every day. We are more than willing to work with him or anybody else that is doing anything innovative.