Hidden beneath the bushes was a low wall pockmarked with holes and gobs of concrete.

Steinbeck noted using “great gobs of information” from Babb’s and Collins’s reports and notes, and from Collins’s subsequent letters.

This from a team that pays all the gobs and gobs of dollars to its players, and leads the majors with almost 4 million fans year after year.

But what happens when building one of those options becomes more akin to standing at a roulette table, hour after hour, desperately trying to regain all the gobs of money that have already been squandered?

Yet her performance was so realistic that mesmerized audience members jumped up mid-performance, clapping and cheering, and tossed red carnations onstage that Callas touched as if they were gobs of blood.