41.   The hotel staff will make last-minute alterations or handle any other need for the luggage-less traveler.

42.   The games Friday and Saturday with the Padres may help Scioscia and his staff make those decisions.

43.   The staff also made sure the dessert cart did not roll within their sight.

44.   The staff made him sit on a toilet with his pants down while he ate dinner.

45.   The staff can make a mistake on a busy schedule, of course.

46.   The staff made preparations and waited.

47.   The staff made sure she was getting enough fluids and nutrients and carefully monitored her fluid intake and urine output.

48.   The technical staff makes the measurements, then there are officials and judges who make visual scans of the apparatus.

49.   Those are tough decisions that the coaching staff make.

50.   Thompson defended the evaluations, all of which were written by him, saying the senior staff was making slow but steady progress toward improving its performance.