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His adversaries think he’ll crumple like yesterday’s broadsheet when they turn him away, and are perturbed to realize he’s more like the human equivalent of tissue hanging onto the heel of a shoe.

Dubois, who has 22 wins in 24 fights as a professional, looked perturbed that his rival had stolen the limelight and walked off shaking his head.

“I’m bummed. I’m disappointed. I don’t think Casey Stengel could change the outcome of that ballclub,’’ a perturbed Roberts told reporters Sunday.

Facing the blank page perturbed Boneta at the beginning of his first foray into long-form writing, so he asked his writer friends for advice.

And though it’s also perturbing, it’s nice to watch something where even the darkness isn’t synthetic.