1.   After a couple of days the stuff began stinking to high heaven.

2.   All pennant races have their preliminaries, and then right around this time of the season, the real stuff begins.

3.   But this juniors-only hunting stuff is beginning to reach levels of diminishing returns.

4.   Now, Miz Becker, this hands-on-the-keyboard stuff is beginning to sound a little odd.

5.   Once that stuff began to emerge in the trial, it was time to make a deal.

6.   Practice resumes bright and early Wednesday and the real stuff begins Friday.

7.   Then the strange stuff begins.

8.   Then his stuff began to waver, his control began to slip, and his pitches began to sneak up in the strike zone.

9.   Then strange stuff began to happen in this, the Year of the Blundering Official.