Tuesday, March 28, 2006

The Globe will teach you language skills.

From the Boston Globe article about the March 27th Boston Red Sox/Tampa Bay Devil Ray bench-clearing brawl:
Players from both teams then rushed in, Sox reliever Jonathan Papelbon all the way from the bullpen, behind the stands, arriving in time to pull Gathright out of the pack and hold him. Trent Durrington, the Sox' resident Aussie, found himself at one point at the bottom of the mudpile. (''A bit of a wank," Durrington told reporters afterward, using a native idiom for ''show.")
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