Sentences with phrase «as baseball bats»

Double Dragon featured the scrolling screen, the backdrops of alleys and subways, but would add important elements like co-op multiplayer to the genre and the ability to use enemy weapons, such as baseball bats and barrels.

By understanding how CNT arrays are created, designers and engineers can better incorporate the highly adaptable material into devices and products such as baseball bats, aerospace wiring, combat body armor, computer logic components and micro sensors used in biomedical applications.

Thus, within academic research they may investigate athletes» physiology or the biomechanics associated with the use of one piece of equipment such as a baseball bat.

Has as much impact as a baseball bat to the head, but is much more enjoyable.

The real fun is getting in and grabbing the meaty wood - rimmed steering wheel that seems to have the same circumference as a baseball bat and feels just as good in the hand.

With the usual celebrity suspects — Chloe Sevigny, John Waters, Kim Gordon, and Thurston Moore — on hand, the game was in the meta - moment: Clarissa Dalrymple attended her portrait by Billy Sullivan; graffiti - chic entrepreneur Aron, who is thinly disguised as the baseball bat - wielding «Arod» in the novel Reena Spaulings, hung out with Biennial - featured Bernadette Corporation members, and Jeff Koons appeared doubled in Adam McEwen's fake obituary of the neo-Pop star.

The danger with an issue like this — and I think why it has not been more prevalent, more politically potent — is that those who believe in global warming have tried to use it as a baseball bat to beat up the opposition.

For example, Lenovo says that you can use it as a baseball bat or a steering wheel in certain virtual reality scenarios.

Not exact matches

Investments in technology have also been made at the league and franchise level - virtual reality, in - game wearable tech (the Motus Baseball Sleeve measuring stress on elbows and the Zephyr Bioharness monitoring heart and breathing rates) and the recent announcement of Blast Motion as the official «bat sensor technology» analyzing swings.

A bat is to a baseball player as a scalpel is to a surgeon.

• «I was an early RS consumer having spent paperboy delivery money on countless «free» baseball bat sized d - cell flashlights, the mystical p - boxes and subsequently, Band - Aids (early life lesson on how hot a solder iron can get...) to returning later as a college co-op student to the Fort Worth, TX headquarters.

For more esoteric items such as baseball pitching machines and cricket bats, the market is less competitive so retailers may be able to retain a significant portion of the savings and prices will take longer to adjust.

We're not sure what's in the water in Pennsylvania, but after one school district in the Keystone State distributed buckets of rocks around school to pelt shooters as a last resort, and another handed out tiny baseball bats to thwart would - be attackers, we asked readers what you thought of these...

The baseball business will have a decent year as new bat regulations will drive sales; however, this is a one - off benefit, and retailers and manufacturers will have to seek new ways to keep consumers engaged.

Diamond Softball Catchers Gear Xi5 Batting Helmets Walmart Cairns Central Travel is protected against losses in the unlikely event of insolvency on the part of a supplier such as a tour operator, airline... Adult Catchers Gear Buy Baseball Catchers Gear and Equipment at Low Prices on Brands Like Mizuno, Under Armour, Nike, and Easton with Easy and Quick Delivery

Batting Helmets Walmart Cairns Central Travel is protected against losses in the unlikely event of insolvency on the part of a supplier such as a tour operator, airline... Adult Catchers Gear Buy Baseball Catchers Gear and Equipment at Low Prices on Brands Like Mizuno, Under Armour, Nike, and Easton with Easy and Quick Delivery at... Purchase

Trying to compare the relative merits of entire countries as expat destinations is kind of like cracking peanuts with a baseball bat.

He could have just as easily used a bomb, a knife, a baseball bat... Say we do eliminate guns altogether?

The baseball bat wielding ogre - God was all I knew ever since as far back as I could remember.

As with batting in baseball, being a good conference commissioner requires you to be able to take pitches.

The baseball bat isn't a new thing for the Panthers either, and the team used it as a source of motivation in weeks prior.

While Norman isn't specified as the player who directed pregame comments at Beckham, the Panthers star cornerback was holding the baseball bat and Stapleton says that Beckham perceived it as a message being sent.

Despite themselves, it seems, the owners have returned the focus of this baseball season to such welcome matters as pennant races and batting titles.

It wouldn't be the last time he'd play baseball in North America, as the Cubs signed him to a minor - league deal where he was a player - coach back in 2014, and then he went on to play in the Dominican Winter League where he batted.313 /.409 /.510 at the age of 42.

The Orioles succeeded, as they showed Atlanta, with reliable starting pitching, the best bullpen in baseball and just enough offense, though they are talking to other clubs, trying to find another bat, such as Geronimo Berroa of the Oakland Athletics.

Fitzgerald was trying out the SmartKage at Mike Murphy Baseball Academy in Concord, a technologically enhanced batting cage which can test, analyze and evaluate players across several measurables «'' and not just for hitters, but fielders and pitchers as well.

«The injuries started popping up when the C405 aluminum alloy came out as the bat standard in 1996 — brain damage, broken jaws, teeth knocked out,» says Bill Thurston, rules editor of the NCAA baseball rules committee for the last 15 years.

Spithorst was good enough as a sophomore to allow Dylan Carlson to move to the outfield before being drafted in the first round of the Major League Baseball draft by the Cardinals, and continued to anchor the defense at first base while swinging a mighty bat.

As a senior at Wichita State in 1993, playing in his hometown, at the school where his father, John, was and still is a professor of history, Darren went 11 - 1 with a 2.48 ERA and, as the Shockers» DH, batted.327 with 22 homers and 66 RBIs; his accomplishments won him the Golden Spikes Award as baseball's top amateur playeAs a senior at Wichita State in 1993, playing in his hometown, at the school where his father, John, was and still is a professor of history, Darren went 11 - 1 with a 2.48 ERA and, as the Shockers» DH, batted.327 with 22 homers and 66 RBIs; his accomplishments won him the Golden Spikes Award as baseball's top amateur playeas the Shockers» DH, batted.327 with 22 homers and 66 RBIs; his accomplishments won him the Golden Spikes Award as baseball's top amateur playeas baseball's top amateur player.

Garcia will be competing all summer long as a member of the Auburn Wildcats, a college wooden - bat league baseball team that plays its home games at James Field in Auburn.

The questioners like to apply a baseball parallel and point out that if Phil Wrigley, say, owned not only the Chicago Cubs but Cincinnati and St. Louis as well, he could boost the Cubs» chances by trading the bat boy for Stan Musial.

He used to share stories with me at Michigan about how as a youth he kept individual statistics on his batting average in baseball, scoring average in basketball and touchdowns in football.

Think about the power needed to jump high for a dunk in basketball, to swing a baseball bat, to increase agility & sprint speed, to accelerate mid-sprint to catch up to someone in soccer, to hit someone as hard as possible in football, to shoot from the hips in wrestling, to swing a racket or golf club, and the list could go on and on.

If that's the case, you could see if your tween might be interested in helping a local baseball team as a junior manager, bat boy, or coach's assistant.

At the core of his narrative of spiritual redemption are his acts of violence as an angry young man — stabbing, rock throwing, brick hurling and baseball bat beating — that preceded Carson's sudden transformation into the composed figure who stands before voters today.

The vanquished baseball bat - wielding mad - as - hell man from Buffalo was supposed to have a press conference this afternoon at the Ellicott Square Building — the same place where he launched his long - shot run for governor «lo those many moons ago.

Remember the «mad as hell» man from Buffalo who pledged to wield order in Albany with a baseball bat if elected in 2010?

In 2010 Paladino was going to take a baseball bat to Albany to hit a home run for NY State and the NY GOP and the media painted him as a thug.

UPDATE: Jose Sucuzhañay, who had been on life support and in a coma since he and his brother were attacked with a bottle and an aluminum baseball bat in the early hours of Monday morning, has died: «The victim, Jose Osvaldo Sucuzhanay, the co-owner of Open Realty International, a real estate agency in Bushwick, was described by family members as a gentle, generous man, a father of two children who live with his parents in Azogues, Ecuador, his native town.

It's as if you have to swing your baseball bat nearly an hour before the pitcher throws the ball.

Despite this — or perhaps to refute the risks — the smokers in the ads seem vigorous and healthy, rappelling rock faces, lassoing horses, batting snowballs with baseball bats, or as in a peculiar December 1982 ad for Newport Menthol Kings («Alive with pleasure!»)

As Major League Baseball prepares for tonight's Home Run Derby and tomorrow night's All - Star Game at Yankee Stadium in New York City, players and fans might be well - advised to keep a close eye not just on the ball, but on the bats as welAs Major League Baseball prepares for tonight's Home Run Derby and tomorrow night's All - Star Game at Yankee Stadium in New York City, players and fans might be well - advised to keep a close eye not just on the ball, but on the bats as welas well.

Small, an expert on the brain imaging of human behavior, uses functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to study how the brain of professional athletes plans complex movements, such as swinging a baseball bat.

So let's take 2,000 people, and beat half of them in the head with baseball bats, and the other half we'll use Styrofoam bats as a control for the others.

What we're doing [with this functional exercise], similar to a baseball bat, take the dominant hand and choke down on the grip, as we move our secondary hand up and down.

Pusser can either be regarded as a tireless champion of justice or a baseball - bat - wielding hooligan.

The campaign is a highlight of the game as it is narrated by a British narrator in the form of a wildlife television show akin to Steve Irwin but only if he told all of the animals on the show to kill each other with nukes and baseball bats.

There are special items that can be found throughout the world and changed into super stickers, such as a large fan, a pair of scissors, baseball bat, trumpet, sponge, and so on.

Yet rather than see anti-Semitism in the film, one could just as easily criticize it for ultra-Zionist revisionism, featuring baseball bat - armed Jewish supermen, macho enough to make even David Mamet proud, taking matters into their own hands.

It's interesting that the director of the «torture porn» Hostel movies should appear as a soldier who loves to beat Nazis to a pulp with a baseball bat while everyone around cheers.