Sentences with phrase «come for baseball»

I am very happy with how it turned out and think it is going to be an important resource for years to come for baseball players and participants in other sports as well.

Not exact matches

Baseball players spend half the game standing in the field waiting for something to come their way, and the other half sitting in the dugout waiting for a chance to bat.

When Adam came along, we didn't think it was going to be a boy... and all of a sudden, a boy pops out, and I'm thinking wow, this is cool — now I got a girl and a boy — not that I really cared — but you get all the dreams of... I'm going to football games, I'm going to baseball games... whatever it be, yeah, I'm going to be there for my little buddy.

The inspiration for these actually came from Kevin's good buddy, Andy, who hosts the guys» annual fantasy football draft, or is it the baseball draft?

If they let Harper leave via free agency, do the Nationals slot Victor Robles in for Harper in right, wait for Juan Soto to develop, and then spend the money coming off the books and what they would have committed to Harper in what's thought of as one of the best free agent classes in baseball history next winter?»

«I want to do a baseball academy, a Boys & Girls Club — type thing in north Vallejo, indoor fields: Have a bus pickup kids from each elementary school, have them come do homework for 90 minutes, then the rest is baseball,» he says.

It's that stray what if in the back of every GM's mind, as he knows that extensions usually aren't handed out for having the most efficient WAR / $ ranking in baseball, but that pink slips might be coming if the stupid bullpen blows another stupid lead that ends up with another stupid loss.

Their decision to use came in a very, very, very different time, when reporters were nationally chastised for talking about androstenedione and Bud Selig was unequivocally thrilled that an armada of big, beefy baseball boys was helping people forget about the strike owners caused.

Thanks for coming, don't forget there's probably 20 hours of baseball after this that will really decide everything.

Come the weekend you were ready to head into town for Saturday night dancing or Sunday afternoon baseball.

This was perfectly legal in semipro baseball, so if this rich man took it one logical step further and began hiring the best players from the state's colleges to spend their summer vacations playing ball for him, come August he might find he had bought his town a juggernaut.

When it comes to building a baseball team for the»90s, Andy MacPhail, G.M. of the Twins, is the best in the business

In fact, there wasn't much to be gained from it unless you liked giving people the pleasure of watching a good game on Sundays and enjoyed the idea that your town might come to be known all across America for its marvelous baseball team.

It's a tricky question, because when I'm not watching baseball or writing about baseball for my day job, I retreat into a bunker that was developed by NASA scientists to keep baseball from coming in.

The pass subsequently came out high and short, like a pop up on a baseball field, and Kansas City cornerback Terrance Mitchell was able to just dive and catch it for the interception.

Because he has to play 9 years in the NPB for that to happen, which would leave 4 more years of languishing and aging in Japan before he can come stateside and start signing shoe and media deals and becoming «Shohei Ohtani: Baseball Hall of Famer».

And with Major League Baseball focusing on bringing the game back to urban areas, the rise of JRW could not have come at a more opportune moment for baseball as an institution in America, the first sport to desegregate its ranks by admitting the great Number 42, Jackie Robinson, Baseball focusing on bringing the game back to urban areas, the rise of JRW could not have come at a more opportune moment for baseball as an institution in America, the first sport to desegregate its ranks by admitting the great Number 42, Jackie Robinson, baseball as an institution in America, the first sport to desegregate its ranks by admitting the great Number 42, Jackie Robinson, in 1947.

Pretend instead that it's Wily Peralta who disappears for eight years, then comes back to start in the NLCS against the best team in baseball.

A new ballpark is an empty frame for all of the beautiful baseball to come.

So, with Carter out of the picture and Bird not coming back to save the day, there's a void for Alonso to fill whether he's the version of himself that crushes baseballs or just the one that doesn't embarrass himself or his team at the plate or in the field.

Every time Rodriguez scored a run, drove in a run, got a hit and walloped a dinger, he enabled the sweet, sweet chemicals that keep people coming back for baseball, but people just don't like him.

According to James Daly, the executive director, he secured the games for Winnipeg by showing movies of the crowds at exhibition baseball (the St. Louis Cardinals came one year) and bingo games.

Caguas and Mayaguez were lucky when it came to their baseball stadiums: neither was damaged beyond use and all four teams rotated using those fields for the season.

The thing is, that small ROI is coming from a really high winning percentage for baseball.

But the waves of success are still coming in for his Rancho Bernardo High baseball program.

«We are committed to the community, and excited to bring family fun that is affordable for the summer time while showcasing these up and coming athletes,» Lincoln Potters General Manager Matt Lundgren said about bringing this level of baseball to South Placer County.

During elementary school, while many kids spend their summers playing club soccer or travel baseball, Clancy was out on the track preparing for what was to come.

As for baseball, he admits, «I'm disappointed I couldn't have done better because that's what I originally came to school for.

Collins's penchant for sending his linebackers came to international attention last year when Japanese baseball legend Shigeo Nagashima came to SMU with a Japanese film crew to publicize the Mustangs» game with Houston in the 1983 Mirage Bowl in Tokyo.

BASEBALL — The interleague trading period came to a close with the National League Champion San Francisco Giants sending two pitchers, Stu Miller and Mike McCormick, and Catcher John Orsino to Baltimore for Pitchers Jack Fisher and Billy Hoeft, plus Catcher Jim Coker.

Ng has interviewed for multiple GM jobs and never come away with one, but she's recognized as a sharp baseball mind and is the senior vice president of baseball operations for MLB.

Human beings are bad at predicting the future, especially when it comes to baseball, so the lesson here is that we can't take Scherzer's outing for granted.

Whether Camp Bladium, or one of our specialized Soccer, Baseball, Football, Lil» Ninjas, or Basketball camps, your child is bound to come home healthy, happy... and ready for rest!

Baseball ignored PEDs in the 1990s, when it was coming off the strike and needed to put asses in the seats, and now it's using A-Rod as a way to make up for that, which isn't right.

After all, Wake and Florida merely twiddled their thumbs for far many more hours than actually participating in baseball games that weekend, and Singer wouldn't come back on after the game resumed.

«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.

Since 1959, California District 54 Little League has provide the opportunity for families to connect and for children to come together in a healthy, safe environment to learn the values of team sports and the fundamentals of Baseball, Softball and Challenger.

The inclusion of vuvuzela comes after months of exclusion for the annoying noisemaker; since the July Cup final, the horns have been banned by many baseball, football and soccer teams, and recently FIBA announced that they would not be permitted at the upcoming world basketball championships in Turkey.

That hug never came, thus shaping the driven personality of an inimitable figure who, more than any other — through his embrace of free agency, through his creation of the fabulously profitable YES network, through his maniacal quest for victory — shaped the business of baseball into what it now is, for better or worse.

That's an excellent comp for Buxton, as far as raw tools go, and Dawson was one of the better prospects in the game at the time, rushing through the minors after coming out of baseball powerhouse Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University

Come join us for a long (and hopefully rewarding) day of postseason baseball.

If you're in the mood for 5,000 words about why baseball's future is in trouble, please read my article from last week, which comes to this conclusion:

Committing to a baseball team doesn't come easily for anyone.

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So, the MLBPA set up a deadline of 8 p.m. ET on Monday for themselves, MLB, and Nippon Professional Baseball to come to terms on a new posting agreement, or else, Ohtani isn't going to be posted.

If I gave in and began negotiating baseball contracts through an agent, then I set a precedent that's going to bring awful pain to general managers for years to come, because every salary negotiation with every humpty - dumpty fourth - string catcher is going to run into months of dickering.

While gearing up for our annual Baseball / Softball Preview (coming Feb. 25), we checked in with one of the top returning talents for a Sheldon softball team which is pre - paring to defend its Sac Joaquin Section title.

Aussie players have their own identity and culture, but it's time for the kids of the next generation to have the coaching and knowledge from guys who came before them» «I want Nxtgen baseball to be the new standard in Australian baseball»

Kenley Jansen has been one of the best relief pitchers in baseball for a few years, but in recent seasons the Dodgers» main bugaboo come October has been finding a suitable bridge to get from their starting pitchers to Jansen.

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