Before the next game, I took out the line-up card instead of letting Bigger do it and thus became only the third manager I've heard about to get throw...n out of a game before it began.Al Majeski was the crew chief. I handed him the card and said, "Want to ask you a question."He nodded after putting the two cards together, sticking them in his back pocket and extracting his counter."Yesterday," I said as calmly as I could, "Duffy there was calling the balls and strikes, and he called a couple of. . and I'm sure you're constantly thinking of her welfare... aren't you, Lover?"She couldn't have made it more plain had she spelled it out for him, Ken realized, his guts knotting hollowly at her veiled, if obvious, threat. It was all crazy... and the absolute insane part was that she was anything but hard to take! Christ, she was breathtaking... and here she was trying to coerce him into... into fucking her! What the hell else?"I do shock you, don't I, Darling," she said rather than asked.. All the while, playing to every girl's desires. It's amazing that you haven't gotten laid yet, with all the hormones buzzing around, but you know quite well why you had not. The last serious girlfriend you had was the type that saw sex as a type of necessary evil. And since one person's reproductive cycle no longer endangers the prosperous human population, it was not even a necessary one to her. And since she had broken up woth you (you think sometimes you may have been a bit forward in. " Like it or not, just don't go doing anything stupid like talking to Internal Affairs about it. If it comes down to it, it's your word against mine, the word of a rookie against a man with seventeen years on the force." He paused for emphasis. "And a lot of friends among his brother officers."Rob shivered. He'd heard stories about the Sarge. Rumor had it, both in the Department and on the street, that Pollatti was not a man to cross. He began to wonder how he could justify putting in for a.