"I did a lot of mediocre stuff because I wanted to make a living," Mr. King said.

But some of it was awful work; there were some writers who weren't so talented, and they put the mediocre stuff on the air, too.

He said, "I know when we write mediocre stuff, and when we write good stuff.

It is all the bourgeois mediocre stuff in between that is the problem.

The result: thin, mediocre stuff, much of which should never have been sold under the Burgundy appellation.

Suffice to say, he never bothered me with mediocre stuff.

Teammates refer to him as the Mule and he forged ahead against the Marlins despite having relatively mediocre stuff.

Look at the background landscape -it's mediocre stuff.

Clemens battled with his mediocre stuff, but the Yankees managed to win.

And there are times when you do mediocre stuff and everybody's talking about it.