TO the second-guesser, the second guess is never really a guess.

Everyone who has paid a buck has now become a coach and a second-guesser.

Until, that is, this season, when an official finally shows up on-air as an expert second-guesser.

If I hear the person uses sarcasm negatively, or is a constant second-guesser.

When he disagrees, he can be viewed as a second-guesser.

"Going back on the tape, being a second-guesser, there's obvious things we can pick out," Brewer said.

Pat Oliphant was an uninvited second-guesser of the party in power.

Benedict may yet prove an annoying second-guesser, looking over Francis' broad shoulders.

A chronic second-guesser, Van Gundy seems to be trying everything.

And, of course, the ultimate second-guesser is history, which makes fools of the best of us.

His comeback: “I usually do that before I make the decisions…” Take that, second-guesser.

Jamieson would prefer to have a knowledgeable systems man in the right seat any day over a second-guesser or a self-anointed tactics expert.

A second-guesser.

The Jets-Falcons game was a second-guesser's heaven Sunday while the rest of the league's contests were virtually brouhaha-free.

I am a disorganized, melancholy second-guesser who rhapsodizes a little too loudly over the pleasures of a cold beer at the end of a long day.

Everybody hates a second-guesser, that whiny type who claims years later, "Nyah, nyah, I knew it wouldn't work."

He said that his preference was to return to retirement and that he had no interest in being an impediment to, or second-guesser of, the exchange's new leader.

And vindictive, as he was a few years ago after Larry Speakes, then the White House spokesman, described Mr. Darman as "the ultimate second-guesser."

A cloud of cigar smoke usually encircles McKeon's head these days, and he seems to have utilized this postseason to gently prod every second-guesser who has ever questioned his moves.

The owner is still, by many accounts, a champion second-guesser, but then, Pettitte is also the indisputable proof of how he has developed the knack for making use of his ears, of listening to people who know more.

So it's not all that surprising that when it comes to shopping for anything beyond your basic carton of milk - when it comes, that is, to objects of desire rather than necessity - I'm a world-class second-guesser.

Baylor's most prominent second-guesser in the court of public opinion is one Alan Crudman, who was part of the legal dream team that helped J. J. Bronco escape a guilty verdict and wander off in search of "the real killers."