1.   As a child living in the Augusta area, Langham worked several Masters tournaments as a scoreboard operator, and he has dreamed of playing in that fabled tournament.

2.   But to be mocked by a scoreboard operator?

3.   By the end of the afternoon, the scoreboard operator was on life support.

4.   General managers, television producers, purists and scoreboard operators hoping to avoid carpal-tunnel syndrome all support the new strike zone.

5.   In fact, if the Yankees led after six innings, the scoreboard operator could usually leave early because of Rivera and Wetteland.

6.   Maybe the scoreboard operator was prescient.

7.   Neither have scoreboard operators.

8.   Scoreboard operators got into the cat-and-mouse spirit by keeping the digits concealed until a split-second before they were magnetically attached to the board.

9.   So did the scoreboard operator.

10.   The scoreboard operator thought so, too, putting a big one in the Dodgers hit column.