Sentences with phrase «about our baseball team»

«The parlor was always the welcome wayfaring station on the street, where people could moan and groan about baseball teams and TV shows.

However, he hasn't had too many positive things to say about our baseball team on here lately.

The movie MoneyBall is about a baseball team, The Oakland Athletics, which uses statistical models to buy undervalued players in the market and analyse the game to get them more wins.

The third - grade students at Samuel Powel School in West Philadelphia took their spots in a circle on the floor and eagerly opened their books, anxious to resume reading Ballhawk, a story about a baseball team.

Not exact matches

Billy is about to turn baseball on its ear when he uses statistical data to analyze and place value on the players he picks for the team.

The 2003 bestseller by Michael Lewis about the Oakland A's baseball team and its visionary general manager, Billy Beane, who used a data - driven draft process to get to the playoffs, spawned a 2011 Brad Pitt movie and popularized the notion that math could win games.

Think about the components of a baseball team.

Aside from voluntary student religious groups, religion in most universities is about as important as the baseball team.

• For Unfiltered's sport - minded readers, the PGA Championship may be just a week away, and baseball's playoff picture is starting to shake out, but all the talk around the wine fridge this week has been about football, with NFL teams opening training camp around the country.

They remind us of a paradox, in which baseball teams should a) always think about the future and b) worry about nothing but the short - term because that future might not exist.

Let's talk about the different classifications of teams in Major League Baseball.

That was the team that turned me from a kid who grew up with baseball to an adult who was absolutely fanatical about it.

But just eyeballing it, it looks like the Giants gave up about as much talent as any team in baseball, with Matt Duffy and his five years of team control going for the enigmatic Matt Moore, along with a high - profile international free agent from last year and a projectable, hard - throwing right - hander.

Schieffer has been appointed as the Dodgers» trustee, and he'll be in charge of all of the businessy things that baseball teams always have to worry about.

«I only weighed about 100,» Archie recalls, «and the baseball team didn't have regular shirts, so we had to wear old football jerseys.

Two - thirds of the teams in Major League Baseball were sent home to think about what they did wrong.

Well, the Cubs are about as up against a wall as you can be in this here game of baseball, down 3 - 0 to a Dodgers team that had everything go right in Game 3.

I was asked for some advice about the truly hopeless teams in baseball for this video, and after the Braves and Phillies, a third team would really have made sense.

How about a teeny - tiny card featuring a track star that a magnificently insane owner put on his baseball team to do nothing but run fast and steal bases?

In 2012, we weren't just spending our time thinking about how awful the Astros were going to be; we were also thinking about the best organization in baseball, loosely defined as the team with the best talent on the roster, the best talent in the farm, the best minds making the decisions, and the resources to complement it all.

We're about to become a very good baseball team, and I want to see this thing through.»

You are either talking about the Arsenal baseball team or have alcohol in / on the brain.

NFL scouts never forgot about him, and when Henson kept striking out, he gave up baseball to play for another iconic American team.

# 7 JORDAN NEVAREZ Favorite Baseball Team: San Francisco Giants Favorite Baseball Player: Troy Tulowitzki Favorite Baseball Moment: «Whenever we're winning a game» Favorite Non-Baseball Hobby: Hanging out with friends or swimming Why He's Excited About the LLWS: «We're having fun and have the chance to go to the championship.»

# 5 KYLE BOUCHET Favorite Baseball Team: San Francisco Giants Favorite Player: Matt Cain Favorite Baseball Moment: Winning the District 54 title (to qualify for the LLWS) Favorite Non-Basebal Hobby: Basketball and other sports Why He's Excited About the LLWS: «Facing the competition of the other teams.»

No one will ever forget about your ardent Kentucky Wildcats pride when you show your loyalty by sporting this fresh Legend Team Issue Baseball Dri - FIT T - shirt from Nike!

Rader's 17 - year - old son, Matt, who attends high school near the family home in Florida, said he was thinking about quitting the wrestling team next winter to concentrate on his studies and on baseball.

Back in April, I wrote about what it would take for a baseball team to break the all - time wins record.

You might snicker at his failed football career or the fact he got a workout teams attended in the first place, but baseball teams will pay attention to just about anyone built like Tebow who can run a 6.7, so it's not entirely who he has been that has got him to where he is now.

Still, the Cubs are the best team in baseball, just like we assumed before the season started, and if you were told they would be 52 - 33 with an eight - game lead in the NL Central, you might have remarked, «Yeah, that's about right.»

For now, though, the Mets are just about the only baseball team making free agency work for them.

Or, maybe the Rays will add a little on the margins, say they tried, complain about the economics of baseball, and the AL East will once again be dominated by the Yankees and Red Sox while teams that actually bothered to improve will comfortably control the wild card race all year long.

On his way home from Ann Arbor, he talked in the car about baseball, about how much he wanted to bring a minor league team to Fort Wayne, about business ventures he wants to get into and about how wonderful it is to be free again and how a man can take for granted all the small, surpassing pleasures in life until prison takes them away.

While Sportianity can't make a dent in basketball, the Rev. Billy Zeoli leads a phalanx of clergymen into football and baseball locker rooms, where prayer is a function of «team unity» and the players and chaplains talk a great deal about the Seventh Commandment.

When Chris Ault, then the head coach of the University of Nevada Wolfpack, asked Colin if he was thinking about signing with a professional baseball team, Kaepernick was clear.

Weren't we just writing about our All - NorCal football teams and previewing baseball...

«Right then,» says Kurkjian, «I decided to quit worrying about how the team I was covering was doing and realize how fortunate I was just to be covering major league baseball.»

it pretty much means that just about every other team in baseball had a shot to take the players on the right as well and did not... so it's not like the Braves are making some egregious errors.

Now their fans won't have to endlessly relive the memories of a collapse that baseball had never seen before, one where the top team in the majors played so poorly in the second half — and not the mathematical second half, either, since this is baseball we're talking about — that they missed out on the playoffs entirely.

It could be that my sister was not happy about her looks so she compensated by being overly critical of others, or that my brother was once cut from the baseball team and so felt he needed to prove himself.

Ostensibly, it is the story of a team of nine - year old hockey players in a Boston suburb, their coach, a former high school baseball coach and local sports hero, the all - male board of directors of the town's hockey club, a hockey mom concerned about her kids emotional well - being, and, at center ice, a set of adorable, identical, competitive, but sensitive twin boys who became, as is all too often the case in the adult - centered world of youth sports, the unintended but innocent victims of a real life power play.

That's just one more thing to think about during our busy spring sports season when I'm balancing the schedules of two baseball teams and a soccer team (along with all of their other activities and school events).

Darrell Mathis, the coach of the Austin baseball team, said that his players are self - conscious about their homemade field when teams from other high schools come to play games.

In Cary, for example, a Park District task force recently rejected a proposal to build a baseball stadium for a semipro team at Hoffman Park after residents raised concerns about traffic and noise.

So now, even before Emma Benson, a field director for the conservative political organization Americans for Prosperity, knocks on a door, she has more than 700 data points about the person behind it, like magazine subscriptions, car ownership (make, model, year), propensity for voting, and likes and dislikes mined from Facebook and Twitter, from rock bands to baseball teams.

He found that only about one - fourth of children participating in organized sports — such as baseball, softball or soccer — received the government - recommended amount of physical activity during team practices.

Five years ago, Rob Summers was 20 years old and about to enter his junior year at Oregon State University in Corvallis, where he was a pitcher on the baseball team.

And so — Anyway, about six weeks in the Paleo, our son played baseball and we had not seen the t — We hadn't seen any of the parents of the team for probably 12 weeks.

Spring is in the air... baseball fans are excited about the new season, all the teams have just completed their spring ball and have begun their regular season.

Tonight is the end of year parties for both boy's baseball teams and I'm about to get to decorating, picking up cupcakes and frosting even more cupcakes!