1.   And MARTA promptly spit the bit like a petting-zoo pony.

2.   He gets five runs, goes out and spits the bit, chokes.

3.   He spits the bit.

4.   Rocker, the normally reliable one who throws a mean fastball and fidgets and squirms like a bad kid in church, spit the bit.

5.   Steinbrenner is not going to call upon his old refrain and declare that his guy spit the bit.

6.   The Dolphins spit the bit.

7.   The quarterback has been the target of all the criticism since the local football team spit the bit against Pittsburgh last Saturday.

8.   Then Calvin Schiraldi spit the bit.

9.   They spit the bit.

10.   Those two had spit the bit on the AstroTurf the previous two evenings.