Bako: Because your stuff is horrible today and if you don't try a little harder, you're not going to make it out of this inning.

In 1990, Bako was drafted out of Lafayette High School — who later retired his number 6 — with the ninth pick of the sixth round by the Cleveland Indians.

`` Are you hit ''??

`` Are you trying to cut your throat ''??

`` Are you a thrower of flame, marine ''??

`` Are you sick ''??

Apologies are in order from anybody who said, `` Are you sure you're not making a mistake ''??

`` Are you going to comply with the demands of Bern ''??

Are you experimenting with different selling slants in developing new customers??

Are you following competition willy-nilly -- trying to match dollar for dollar -- or are you experimenting with new means for reaching and influencing consumers??

Are you using the most economical printing methods, paper, etc..

Are you carefully policing wash-up time and rest periods to be certain that all other time is productive??

Are you watching work schedules for boiler operators, guards, and other 24-hour-day, 7-day-week operations in order to minimize overtime??

Are you careful to restrict the number of people on leave at one time so that your total employment obligation is minimized??

Are you utilizing cafeteria space for company meetings or discussions??

Are you spending too much money on team uniforms that benefit only a few employees??

Are you underwriting expensive team trips??

Are you utilizing vending machine proceeds to help pay for your program??

Are you indiscriminantly offering unnecessary medical services -- flu shots, sun lamp treatments, etc.??

Are you in a rural or urban area??

Are you getting top dollar from the shooting sports??

Are you looking ahead to the exploding market of millions of American boys and girls, who will grow up to enjoy a traditional American way of life -- ranging the fields with a fine American gun and uniformly excellent ammunition??

Are you paying too much for your truck insurance??

Are you retiring now??

Are you one of these??

`` Are you a poor dumb Canadian or a smart aleck from the States ''??

" Are you not really a behaviourist in disguise?

Are " particles " really " waves?

From the interview: " Are they really real people in England watching this programme now, they really watching, really watching it ?...

* Are virtual particles really constantly popping in and out of existence?

Are you really only eighteen?

Are we really alleging the existence of possible worlds, every bit as real as our actual world, just not actual?

Roger Ebert called it " a bore " and " disgusting in ways that are not entertaining ", and even went as far as asking, " Are there really people who want to see reprehensible trash like this?

* The Straight Dope: " Are cats and dogs really color-blind?

Are they really Red Army officers?

As someone said to me the other day — they had seen the HBO special — and they said, " Are you really a sad obsessed person?

" People fall in love with McGinleyʼs work because it tells a story about liberation and hedonism: Where Goldin and Larry Clark were saying something painful and anxiety producing about Kids and what happens when they take drugs and have sex in an ungoverned urban underworld, McGinley started out announcing that “ The Kids Are Alright ,” fantastic, really, and suggested that a gleeful, unfettered subculture was just around the corner —' still '— if only you knew where to look.

* Straight Dope article: Are there really " Mole People " living under the streets of New York City?

In one of his poems, about a cowboy, one of the lines was " Are you really a gay caballero?

* Orbs: The Ghost in the Camera: Are orbs really ghosts, or a common artifact of photography?

Are Mr Scanlon's members — and other British workers — prepared to match the efficiency, flexibility, cooperativeness and zeal of German workers — or do they really simply want more money for going on as they are?

* Cecil Adams answer to " Are Pygmies really human?

( 1981 ) " Are the Okiek really Masai?

* Faraway, yet so close " Are Leica LTM lenses really compatible with Soviet LTM bodies?

Are Mendel's results really too close?

' Are our girls really like that?

. Are they also correct only as a smoothed-out imitation of a really much more complicated microscopic world ?” Already in 1938, Heisenberg proposed that a quantum field theory can provide only an idealized, large-scale description of quantum dynamics, valid for distances larger than some fundamental length, expected also by Bjorken and Drell in 1965.

Are plants really larger in their introduced ranges?