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They are hopeful that what initially appeared to be a season-altering moment will be nothing more than a temporary speed bump in their pursuit of a second consecutive title.

“These are speed bumps along the way, we anticipated those and so we have contingency plans,” Thune said.

Instead, he described the senate referee's rulings as "speed bumps", and said his party had other options to reach Republican-promised budget cuts, namely rewriting the bill.

But the fruit hit some speed bumps on its path to ubiquity.

And in between that, May hit a major speed bump, offering up a down-the-middle sinker with two aboard in the bottom of the fourth to Schneemann.