Sentences with phrase «because of the pitch»

The Whitecaps are winning because of their pitching.

The Braves» outfielders shifted to the opposite field on every Yankees hitter because of that pitching style.

Because of their pitching staff, they are my team to win the W.S.

Regarding, Giroud, he is our main striker last year, and he was very consistent throughout the year and I expect the same for him this year, and last match he found difficulties to stay on his feet because of the pitch quality.

Because of the pitching and hitting.

And remember WAR is a counting stat so if you are just looking at his batting WAR Ohtani has less PAs because of his pitching schedule.

Overall, Hutchins found that about 60 percent of non-musicians could be classified as bad singers because of pitch accuracy errors.

Two reasons it's impossible to resist «Independence Day»: because of its pitch - perfect cartoonish dialogue («Now you're never gonna get to fly the space shuttle if you marry a stripper!»)

«The winner did not necessarily win because of their pitching skills.

It was a bear to paint because of the pitched ceiling.

Not exact matches

The BauBax jacket's record - breaking crowdfunding success got a lot of press (including from yours truly), and that helped Sanghavi because manufacturers from all across the globe reached out and pitched their services, pricing and quality.

Because some reps are better than others at pitching different types of products, the trick lies in choosing one who best complements your particular type of merchandise and, preferably, already has experience and contacts.

To do that, fellow panelist Edith Yeung, a partner at Mountain View, Calif. - based early - stage venture fund and seed accelerator 500 Startups, advised venture - seekers to attend so - called «demo days» to watch fellow entrepreneurs pitch, because «it's a good way to get a sense of the language.»

Many of the CMOs I interviewed signed on because of the other names I had already secured to participate, and I used those names liberally in my pitches.

Your elevator pitch, so named because you time it for the trip from one floor to the next, needs to succinctly capture the essence of your company.

«More often than not, it's the obvious questions people fall down on because they think them through superficially,» says Martin Soorjoo, founder of San Francisco - based Investor Pitch Clinic and author of Here's the Pitch: How to Pitch Your Business to Anyone, Get Funded, and Win Clients (Wiley, 2012).

Having sat through countless pitches, I can attest that many of them fall flat — and it's not always because of the idea or product.

I warned then that tricked traffic, vicarious visitors, and the kind of morons attracted to the latest news on Momma whoever's new diet weren't worth reaching or pitching to in any case because they weren't buying anything worth selling — but at least we thought they were living, breathing human beings.I said:

If you go to networking events with the intention of just trying to sell to people, they won't want to meet with you later because they know you're going to pitch to them.

These figures help explain the popularity of Trump's campaign pitch that he was going to shake up the Washington establishment because he was an outsider.

And that way your pitch actually becomes a conversation because you come in with a plan, you already know how you can work together... do a lot of work ahead of time so you can share what you're excited about and why it works for your potential partner.

As an observer, mentor and judge, I have seen numerous pitches fall flat because the entrepreneur failed to deliver even an ounce of passion through their pitch.

When Adidas North America President Mark King payed Fortune a visit in early 2015, he had a simple sales pitch: Despite recent sales woes because of design misfires, the German sportswear company could be cool again.

The couple has since been married, and the Watts told Business Insider that since their pitch aired in the latest episode of the show's seventh season, «We haven't been able to keep up with the orders, because they just keep coming in.»

It wouldn't have been worth staying in touch with these people simply because of their money, but many of them were really interesting, knowledgeable people that I could have learned from in addition to being able to pitch them later.

«We have international mentors coming in and the pitches will be in English in order that [participating entrepreneurs] can communicate their ideas also to an audience that might be more interested than the Greek market because there may be ideas that are not applicable to the Greek market or the Greek market is too small,» explains one of the event organizers, Konstantina Zoehrer.

Traditional publishing is a slog — find an agent, pitch a book and if it's picked up by a publisher, sign away the rights to your work, then spend years doing edits and waiting for the book to slot into a publishing schedule — and the majority of these people don't score a deal, because most entrepreneurs «aren't in a position to be commercially published,» says Sattersten.

Some of the most powerful pitches on Shark Tank have resonated because of the story behind them.

And these speeches and pitches are vital because founders and startup entrepreneurs understand the importance of connecting with and appealing to people through emotions, details, and powerful sensory elements.

Advertisers say Oath's proposal is more ambitious than Yahoo's earlier pitch because of its new connection with Verizon's consumer base.

So if you drew a horizontal line and call that fair value like Ben Graham said, and then you draw a wavy line around that horizontal line and call that stock prices, the market is pitching us opportunities all the time between stocks that are way below fair value and way above fair value, the reason investors don't beat the market has nothing to do with the market is not throwing us pitches in that it's not still emotional, they are behavioral problem, there's agency problems, there is a lot of other issues going on but it's not because we're not getting really great pictures all the time.

This is because Job title is a basic, fundamental part of the Ideal Customer Profile: Even if every other piece of the puzzle is perfect — the right industry, the right time, a perfect pitch — if the prospect is in the wrong department, or doesn't have purchasing power... nothing else matters.

Because Kiva is a peer - to - peer lender, you'll need to pitch your business to get investors to lend to you, and the loan amount is determined by the stage of your business (idea, operational, etc.).

«You can sit there and f — ing talk to a guy who will say yes or no because he doesn't have to go through four steps and then wait a month for a bunch of executives to go to Cancun or wherever so they can all sit around singing «Kumbaya» and looking at tape together like the networks have to do,» says Dirty Jobs» Craig Piligian, who recently pitched a competition / elimination show to Riegg.

I would tell you this is going to be an important part of the episode is that first 20 minutes because that's where I make the pitch on why this is important for people to understand.

Pitching is different from selling a product, because it is not part of our regular business practice, it is not something that relates to our core competence, and it tends not to happen in a repeatable and scalable way.

They're only available today because a bunch of people pitched in to fund their development and production.

We know that they're out there just selling us a bill of goods, a piece of junk, that isn't worth half the price that they're charging for it and so we hate the used car salesman pitch because all they do is talk, talk, talk, talk, because they don't want you to ask any questions.

But even if they have what's called «inertia loyalty» to your competitor, meaning that they're sticking around simply because they don't want to deal with the nuisance of switching, you're still going to need to win them over before you can effectively pitch.

Female investors said they did not specifically seek to invest in companies founded by women, but that because of their networks, they received more pitches from female entrepreneurs.

And part of that, again, was because people were judging what the business was, what the product was — and until you were able to interact with them and pitch them, you weren't able to break that barrier.

Pay a movie theater to play a pre-recorded video of your pitch after the ads at a movie you know they're going to see (because they posted about it on social media)

It's dangerously difficult to climb or descend because of its extreme pitch.

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

The reason this is so troubling is because Republicans have long pitched themselves as the party of family values.

«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.

Because of this and other media reports on the 2010 Haiti earthquake, many of us decided we needed to pitch in to help Haiti pick up the pieces.

It's also a bit of a tongue - in - cheek pitch for The Lasting Supper that I'm passionate about and care about deeply because it is really helping people explore and exercise their spiritual freedom and independence with others of like mind.

Think about if everywhere you went government meetings started with 2 minutes of talking about how there is no god, ergo we are left to ourselves to pitch in to help the world, because «remember, there is no god».

These types of stories about so - called Christian songwriters get pitched to the media because the reality is that Christianity is losing its numbers of believers worldwide.