Sentences with phrase «because of a baseball»

Because of baseball.

If they lose, it'll be because of baseball.

If you had to put it under one umbrella, the Cubs are losing because of baseball reasons.

There will not be a single new fan created because of a baseball game that ended early.

Not particularly because of baseball but I like to see people having fun and being ridiculous.

Why kids love it: Sports fanatics love Culver Memorial Park because of the baseball / softball fields and fishing pond.

Not exact matches

Lewis points out, for instance, that early baseball stats didn't bother to record the number of walks a batter earned — mostly because one of the early promoters of baseball stats, a journalist named Henry Chadwick, happened to be a fan of cricket, a sport where there's no such thing as a «walk.»

Classical physics — the kind we know about courtesy of Galileo and Newton — is comparatively easy to understand because we can clearly see it working all around us: the apple falls from the tree; the earth orbits the sun; the thrown baseball follows an arc that we can predict with an equation.

Most likely because the hockey and basketball lockouts radically changed the economic systems of the sports, whereas baseball's 1995 labour deal offered little change to the status quo.

(Side note: This advice must've been woven into an article about baseball because he sure didn't encounter it thumbing through my best of business library.)

Specifically, the article details the partnership that grew between her and Major League Baseball because of her WBENC Certification and the leadership at the Women's Business Enterprise Council of PA - DE-sNJ who worked to open up opportunity for women - owned businesses.

Because the game of baseball requires a pitcher and a catcher, and life has been pitching and catching for billions of years.

And, of course, you are so utterly clueless that you can't see the difference between asking someone to take off their baseball cap which they're wearing simply because they like wearing a baseball cap... and asking a woman to take off her faith - based scarf or an Amish man to shave his faith - based beard or a Sikh (which is * not * a Muslim faith) to take off his turban or a Catholic priest to take off his cross... well, if you can't figure out the difference yet, there's no hope for you.

Our children were born enjoying certain real potentialities; i.e., they would grow up speaking English in the home, knowing about baseball and sailing, eating hot dogs and hamburgers, etc., because of the past of the world into which they were born.

«Jews and Baseball» contains a rare interview with Koufax, who retired at the prime of his career because of pain in his pitching arm and has avoided the public spotlight in the decades since.

This is the scary God who comes in the night, the God who delighted my Grandmother Norris and worded her son, my uncle, because he wanted to play baseball in the morning and not have to deal with the end of time.

They are the size of a baseball... though this could be because I had a heck of a time rolling the meat around my soft boiled eggs (important, so as not to have a rock - hard yolk after baking), breaking the first yolk ruined meat - rolling my confidence (the rest were perfect though).

This is the perfect time of year to make it... when zucchini the size of baseball bats are growing in your garden... because you can never, NEVER have too much of this.

i also chose to use leeks in place of sweet onions mostly because i bought 3 leeks the size of baseball bats and needed to use them in something, but also because they're a perfect segue to spring!

Because we're currently in the middle of baseball season, this mama needs the easiest meals possible!

You're all hopped up on Andrew Miller dust, thinking it's necessary to pay big money for the best and brightest relievers in baseball because of the 2015 Royals and 2016 Indians.

Also, because I can never get enough of this, here's a Baseball America article that reports on Arenado's defensive future, which wasn't very bright at the time:

Now is the time for Miami to play the way Southern Cal used to play — they'd be around 500 because of the highly competitive nature of California college baseball — then, after a hard fought season, they'd win their regional and on to Omaha.

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.

I am a huge sports fan.I love nfl and college football i never get enough of it.I am a big soccer [the other football] fanatic.I like basketball, hockey, some baseball and rugby.I am a big jersey buyer i have a lot of jerseys mostly of american football and soccer.I love the strategy of football i think it is fascinating.I have been a falcons fan since 1990 when the went to all black helmets and jerseys i was a fan because of that and because of primetime deion sanders.I have been a falcons fan through thick and thin win or lose they are my team regardless of how they do.I hope to one day visit Atlanta and see them play at home in Georgia.I hope to one day see them bring back black jerseys as the home colors.I am still a fan of the run n shoot offense i truly believe it can work in the nfl if ran and merged with some two back formations and a one back three wide one tight end formation.

They were one of baseball's «It» teams, a team you would tune in to watch, just because.

Well, a star to us, because we're the record store clerks of baseball fans, and we don't pay attention to album sales.

Probably because he was so beloved around baseball that he was forced out of the game.

So for now, give me Salazar over all the above because of that full win he has over almost everyone according to Baseball - Reference's WAR, the league - leading ERA and ERA +, and as a general nod to the entire Indians» rotation, which has been stunning.

Hello, it is me again, the professional baseball writer who is forced to write about Tim Tebow playing baseball because of specific language contained within my contract.

The Pirates are perhaps the saddest team in baseball (for multiple reasons), but not because of their inherent Piratesitude, but because expectations were so high in the first place.

And because of teams leaving Canseco and Sierra alone, it led to one of the most compelling trades in baseball history, even if it flopped for both sides.

Now the Indians are one of the very best teams in baseball because of that pragmatism.

It seems important to remember that before we talk about anything baseball related because it's one of the more fascinating transactions of the last decade.

That's because Texas is one of the biggest underdogs of the past decade in MLB playoff action, according to the baseball database at OddsShark.com.

Whether he is about to become the new face of baseball — which he almost certainly will be if he keeps this up because he plays for the Yankees and can hit the ball so very, very far — Judge is fun to watch right now.

Its not because he's bad, Its because the front 3 of the line up are so far out of his league, he may aswell be playing baseball to them.

To me, the bunt has gone out of baseball a little bit because almost every ball club has got the first baseman and the third baseman down your throat.

Football is unique among major team sports not because of its violence — hockey and rugby are violent, basketball is a contact sport, and baseball players can get rocked in the eye socket by a 101 - mph weapon — but because of its specialization.

They'll need to get rid of everything that makes the park unique, because otherwise they'll only be a quarter - weird, the Hot Topic shirt of baseball.

I don't always agree with AZ, but we do agree that the baseball team was winning in spite of Cohen, not because of him.

Minor league baseball franchise generator Not an article with a bunch of words, but something I worked really, really hard at without noticing because it was so much fun.

Yet besides Yu Darvish's collapse (which itself was the Hangover 2 of the series since basically the same thing happened four games prior) and Springer's dirt - on - the - grave home run (which was the second season of Stranger Things of the series because it had all happened before but not in quite the same way) there weren't any events that baseball had never seen before to actually merit the anxiety that seeped from this game.

Sure, the call went your way, but somewhere deep down, you know the Red Sox sweeping the Rockies was retribution from the baseball gods, a punishment for benefiting from the interference of an umpire who ended a game that seemed like it was never going to end, that would probably still be being played right now if not for that botched call because dear lord this game had everything but also was great mostly because it was terrible.

Indeed, Conine didn't have a single at bat in three years of college ball, but his ascent is all the more remarkable because he grew up in Rialto, Calif., with a passion for racquetball, not baseball.

Tulowitzki, when healthy, is one of the 10 best players in baseball, and there isn't a reasonable backup plan because no one should have a reasonable backup plan for one of the 10 best players in baseball.

Perhaps the loss of the Stanley Cup playoffs for the second time in history — the 1919 final between Montreal and Seattle was canceled because of a flu epidemic — will cause a modicum of outrage, but certainly there has been little of the visceral fan anger that flared during the 1994 baseball strike.

Another, larger part of me wants that to be the matchup because it would be a perfect example of baseball mooning us.

Baseball Commissioner Landis once backed down on one of his edicts because of a friendship between Joe Judge and an obscure postman

Why, in all the kingdoms of those that are baseball does Ned Yost, or as my phone calls him, Bed Post, think that Cheslor «You Only Exist to Me Because We Signed Moose» Cuthbert is a clean up hitter??? Why, Gawd, Why, did this man fall out of a tree and hit his head or something?