Word: ace
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...PEDRO MARTINEZ Boston Red Sox ace Pedro Martinez repeated too: he dominated the competition and won his second consecutive American League Cy Young Award, again by a unanimous vote. Rarely has there been such consensus about the best in baseball...
...that, Texas--though certainly acquiring what Hicks termed "cache" around the majors--has no guarantee to be that much better next year. Manager Johnny Oates still has to hand the ball to his "ace," Kenny Rogers, every fifth day (insert The Gambler joke here...
Producer Daily, who increasingly was introducing Jones to the dubious joys of the Nashville Sound, had the sense to lay off on the strings and backup singers when he recorded Melba and George. Just a strummed guitar, bass, piano (with ace session man Pig Robbins at the ivories), fiddle, dobro and a tasty pedal steel (played by the incomparable Buddy Emmons). I don't even detect a drum beat on this track. In part, this was an attempt to cash in on the early-'60s craze for all types of folk music; no matter, the results are glorious...
Although Bala thought he had secured the upset for his team, the win was not in the cards. B.C. Coach Jerry York had one more ace up his sleeve...
...little two-page "X-Presidents" thing in George magazine last year. They asked me to write a book, and I already had a screenplay - Adam McKay and I had written a screenplay for "X-Presidents" a couple of years ago. People had asked me to do something with Ace and Gary and I just thought that would be a lot of heartache. I didn't know how to write it. Those guys are deliberately one-dimensional. The four ex-presidents are solidly two-dimensional...