1.   Even a bad performance can inspire the amateur listener.

2.   That performance inspired Shandling to call Torn when he was putting together a talk-show spoof.

3.   The performance inspired former teammate Tom Gordon to say that Martinez can be a manager if he wants because his grasp of the game is so broad.

4.   The performance inspired nostalgia in Aikman.

5.   This performance inspires more outbursts of laughter than most productions, but at a cost.

6.   This sharply divergent performance inspired much talk that perhaps investors had finally decided technology valuations had stretched to the breaking point.