Sentences with phrase «for going to bat for»

«Thank you for your help and for going to bat for me with the insurance company.

But he's a hero back home in Buffalo for going to bat for the UB 2020 plan.

Not exact matches

Kennedy shared her insights about why you need failure to get clarity and how channelling your passion helps you build up an inner resolve to go to bat for your business when it truly counts.

While Canadians seem to have growing choice between e-tailers, most of those sellers aren't actually going to bat for consumers.

An important reason these contract workers were able to start getting benefits is because i2i saved SurveyMonkey 5 percent on its total benefits cost, freeing up surplus funds for the effort, and employees went to bat for their contract counterparts.

Most managers are willing to go to bat for requests that are likely to have a positive return on employee productivity and morale, so stick with those main motivators.

Serial entrepreneur Michael Paolucci learned three valuable lessons while hunting for funding for his new venture, temporary tech - help 2.0 company Solvate: Never neglect your contact database, don't be afraid to go up to bat again where you've previously struck out, and be ready to start on the farm team.

And whom you know is really just about who is willing to go to bat for you, break through filters, and vouch for the quality of your product and of you.

So keep that excitement high even when things aren't going well, and remember that motivated employees are going to turn around and go to bat for your and the company when you need them the most.

Going Beyond Sustainability's founder, Shel Horowitz, is ready to go to bat for you.

We really appreciate that you actually looked at our situation objectively and went to bat for us.

Buying well - managed, good businesses when they are out of favor and patiently waiting for them to again be in favor is no more exciting than going up to bat and taking a walk.

A question for Timelesswheelman: Why is it that, unlike other religious believers who are faced with images of their prophets, gods, etc, Muslims appear to be the only religious group that goes absolutely bat - shaft crazy and murderous when someone, for example, publishes a cartoon of the prophet?

In the words of Isaiah, we can sweep our lives clean of evildoings, say no to wrong, learn to do good, work for justice, help the down - and - out, stand up for the homeless, go to bat for the defenseless.

In 2015, Kolache Factory went to bat for the Sugar Land Skeeters, the Houston area's minor league baseball team.

In the wine department, this means that when the Wythe Hotel, Reynard's mothership, hosts weddings, Campbell has to go to bat for natural wine — and if a bride can't find anything in her price range that she likes, Campbell's willing to pour a fancier natural wine, charge less, and take a hit on the difference.

«They provide a great deal of value to the people who are members, but I'm not sure people realize how much they do for farmers, from going to bat for us, their education program, and more.»

o.t does anybody on here honestly think we might try and make a move for klopp this summer are the board that aggressive enough to make the decision also wenger has not come out straight away to denied that klopp is coming to arsenal he just batted the question away in the press conference yesterday this makes me wonder if wenger is going to sit down with the board and have a chat to see what is the best way forward for the club (maybe moving upstairs to the boardroom so he doesn't have to break his contract) i am sure if certain members of the board saw this as a prime opportunity to move the club forward post wenger we will see what will happen this might be the only chance to get him as we might not be any decent manager around when wenger does retire we would probably end up with martinez instead realistically who do you think we would end up with in 2 yrs time options will be more limited me thinks and we wil have missed the boat better make it count this time coyg

first thing wenegr need to do when the transfer window opens is go straight in off the bat BOOM # 30million bid for lacazette (we need a pacey prolific scorer to kill off the big games for us) and # 20 million for kondogbia.

Joe Torre was back in contention for the National League batting lead after a nine - game stretch in which he went 15 for 32 and raised his average from.313 to.343.

I suspect that there isn't a man on here (well, with maybe one or two exceptions... haha...) who wouldn't go to bat for you when the chips are down.

i think they go gregory or sherff... what gm wants to take a guy one pick ahead of a destination he's all ready publicly said he wants to play for, would you want a unhappy player on your team right off the bat?

Milner for Gerrard and Firmino for Sterling isn't exactly strengthening and if his previous recruits from Southampton are anything to go by Clyne won't exactly set the league alight straight off the bat.

Still, if Ohtani is a good pitcher, and Ohtani's bat actually is an asset for the Angels when he's in the lineup, then oh man, this dude is going to create arguments about the Most Valuable Player award that I'm actually going to be invested in, because they're going to be philosophical and annoying as hell.

And I figure if you continue to leave out UM, and since PSU has been batted about here and other places for 7 years, then there is no need to go into detail about that now.

The other day in Miami, against the Orioles, Bench struck out twice and went 0 for 3, lowering his spring batting average to.400.

They are, however, still going to search for a bat, according to Dave Dombrowski, which means J.D. Martinez is their likely target.

Still gonna lose a bunch of low scoring games cause the offense will be bad, but would be nice to see them make the other team's bats work for it.

But if the batter goes 1 for 10 by standing backwards in the batters box, putting his helmet on upside - down, forgetting to bring a bat etc, then it is legit to say something is wrong — and saying «Look it's just 10 at - bats, small sample size» would trouble me.

kondogbia for me all the way he has all the skills we need for d / m he schooled our midfield when we played them this season on his own, hopefully this would have had wenger rubbing his hands together with glee to watch such a class act who could run our midfield, so i think go straight in with # 30million for him straight off the bat, and test monaco's resolve and his to stay, or make him a star in our midfield he would have helped us drive the midfield forward from deep midfield and smash defensive teams like swansea.

No need to feel sorry Imani, as I said before I was not going to bat for him, in fact my very first comment after the positive was announced was that even if it was all an accident he still should be penalized for not being careful enough.

His bat's been going downhill for a few years now, and they're asking him to move back to a position that is more defensively - intensive AND one that he hasn't played regularly in years.

Pence went 1 for 4 with two strikeouts raising his batting average to 200.

They're nine games back in the AL Central but just 3.5 back in the wild card race behind four other teams, so there is hope, but they are also going to be without Miguel Cabrera — the current AL leader in both batting average and on - base percentage — for at least another month.

after Jon K went to bat for Rose for no reason just that afternoon.

There are two on and none out for Cody Bellinger, who Giles is going to have to hope used up his only hit of the World Series in his last at - bat.

At the rate he's going, Bonds, who ended last week on an 0 - for - 15 slide to fall from.490 to.379, will get only 334 at bats this season.

His defense and speed aren't going to be carrying tools, so he's a bat first left fielder - probably why others are a bit slower on him than us since his overall upside doesn't leave as much room for error, but when you can hit you can play and he can hit.

I've gone to bat for Lehner a lot.

He is batting only.232, and after a particularly awful performance last week against Boston, in which he went 0 - for - 4 and committed a costly error, Grich went into Fregosi's office and asked to be removed from the lineup.

That makes dealing him now that much more difficult, as teams aren't going to want to pay for the Machado who can produce Gold Glove defense while providing one of the best bats at this position when they can argue that he most recently was not that guy — and that on top of not knowing if he's going to be around for only a year before bolting as a free agent.

Right off the bat though... we need to mention and give a shout out to Kimmel of Team DKE SO (Ben Wellek) as he went for 25 on Sunday Night!

So tell me this, Aguero goes missing for first 4 - 5 games in the starting of EPL, no one bats an eye, he gets 5 goals in a game, everybody chants his name to death.

After many years of settling for second best option, Wenger had a chance to go for one of the best goal keepers and this time he didn't bat an eyelid.

The son - in - law went down the single line devoted to Stephen's two games in the bigs, in 1968, when he was a September call - up for the Minnesota Twins: one win, one loss, 4.76 ERA, 11 1/3 innings pitched, 11 hits, seven walks, four strikeouts, three at bats without a hit, one putout, two assists, one error.

He went 4 for 5 on the last day of the 1984 season to edge teammate Dave Winfield for the AL batting crown.

We have to take seriously any guy sporty enough to produce a sentence like: «It was my high school boxing coach who went to bat for me and helped me get on the football team at Northwestern.»

It's being reported by many different outlets that during the game, when Eric Chavez went to go pinch hit for him he saw a pair of cute blondes in the stands and had a bat boy throw a ball to them.

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.

That's not to say Devers is going to go Miguel Cabrera on AL pitching or anything, but it's a reminder that making room for a bat in the lineup, glove be damned, is something Dombrowski has been willing to do in the past if he thinks that the overall outcome is a positive.