1.   An LA numbers guy with old-world smarts, Meir Rosenblatt sits under a lemon tree and talks about back taxes and cutbacks, courage and cowardice.

2.   At the time, Greg Gumbel was the number two play-by-play guy at NBC.

3.   All of which is by way of apology for this column, in which I am going to be, at least a bit, a numbers guy.

4.   From the start, Grier was a numbers guy, and not every professional football coach can claim that skill.

5.   King is a former Cleveland numbers guy who did a decade in the can for kicking a business rival to death.

6.   Steinfeld, who is a numbers guy, would not give a quantitative answer.

7.   The gamblers, the pimps, the numbers guys.

8.   Tom, urbane and circumspect in small wire glasses and gray slacks, is the numbers guy, the nuts and bolts strategist, the businessman.