Sentences with phrase «baseball people»

Still, there was a sense of convenience to the outrage expressed by baseball people last week.

But for now too many baseball people on the island think they already know everything about the game.

For 2 months in the spring and fall, we're basically insane baseball people!

We talked, as baseball people do, of the past: He told me how much he'd enjoyed competing against Frank and Brooks Robinson of my Orioles, and he loved the story of how Baltimore fans bombarded showboating Reggie Jackson with hot dogs dispensed from the upper deck when Reggie played his first game in Memorial Stadium after abandoning Baltimore for the fleshpots of New York and the overbearing Yankees.

The young Reds lament, as baseball people everywhere do, the passing of the old order in Cincinnati.

«But baseball people know what Raffy does for our team.»

Now there are intangibles that only baseball people understand.

He's what broadcasters, managers, and old - timey baseball people might call a «professional hitter,» which means that he gets paid money to play baseball.

Chris Lacy, Mr. Herbert's grandson, says, «I think he liked baseball people even more than he liked the game.»

The smoldering wreckage of the contract seems like a truism at this point, something that was both obvious and unavoidable, but there was once a time when smart baseball people had smart baseball debates about Hamilton's future value.

im 511 enjoy people who like dating an gettng to know one another as friends i love playing basketball, football an baseball

Volpe has been so sought after by baseball people, fellow fans and one script - strapped film company that he has set up an E-mail address specific to his life as a free - agent fan.

In addition, many baseball people will argue persuasively that three young pitchers named Tim Hudson, Mark Mulder and Barry Zito — drafted according to traditional assessment principles — had much more to do with the A's success than Scott Hatteberg ever did.

«You know, I think a lot of inside - baseball people do think like that.

I'm willing to carve out a special slot for a contrived position that baseball people have told us is important, and I'm trying to be open - minded.

One of the most appealing aspects of Angell's reporting is the air of seeming innocence he takes with him when he talks to baseball people, whether it be in a World Series locker room or on a lazy spring afternoon at a training camp in Arizona or Florida.

I know some baseball people would say that they don't want a hitter to change his swing, but my gawd that seems ridiculous when teams are gifting you hits if you can just display a basic amount of bat control...

But scientific studies have gone deeper than pitcher - batter match - ups and discovered some curiosities about the game — and instances where the conventional wisdom the Baseball People have uttered for a century just isn't so.

Charles: Well, you know the Nintendo World Store, we actually just finished in August doing a bunch of those... it was just great fun, when we did that autographing of the Mario Sluggers game, and the baseballs people brought with, which was really fun.