Sentences with phrase «just from a baseball»

Not exact matches

The occasion prompted two professors to examine media predictions (everyone from Sports Illustrated to Sporting News) to see just how accurate these annual baseball forecasts turn out to be.

Watch parties popped up in places far more varied than just craft breweries in Brooklyn, with fans gathering everywhere from Hermosa Beach in California to a library in Birmingham, Ala., to the Tulsa Drillers» minor league baseball stadium in Oklahoma.

From underneath the rubble, the Milwaukee Brewers are over.500 and just 3 1/2 games behind the Chicago Cubs in the NL Central, which is one of baseball's tightest divisions.

Your team could go from 100 losses to October baseball in just one year, too.

But just eyeballing it, it looks like the Giants gave up about as much talent as any team in baseball, with Matt Duffy and his five years of team control going for the enigmatic Matt Moore, along with a high - profile international free agent from last year and a projectable, hard - throwing right - hander.

From the owners» perspective, a strong luxury - tax penalty limits just how much of an advantage the richest teams in baseball have in the free agent market.

Baseball teams often had a pitcher or slugger just passing through on his way to or from the majors.

We're just two years removed from back - to - back 40 - homer seasons, and while it's probably as likely that he'll get attacked in an alley by his advancing age and be out of baseball in two years, there's still a chance of a late - career renaissance.

If the results are just a little Royals - skewed, well, baseball will have the best from both worlds.

Sorry, just don't see us as going from worst record in all of baseball to being a playoff contender in a year.

I am a baseball fan, and I shall get much more from the game because of your articles, and Mr. Riger's drawings (SI, March 31) are — well, let's just say they are perfection.

But he told them of the windows he'd broken and the candy bars he'd stolen, and how removed all that is from what he is now, an All - America halfback, near world - class sprinter, baseball prodigy and, though just a junior, this season's favorite to win the Heisman Trophy.

Out of the 10 wild card game winners from 2012 - 2016, five have won the division series, showing just how unpredictable baseball can be.

While there have been no formal studies to determine how many child molesters have coached youth teams, a computer - database search of recent newspaper stories reveals more than 30 cases just in the last 18 months of coaches in the U.S. who have been arrested or convicted of sexually abusing children engaged in nine sports from baseball to wrestling — and this despite the fact that child sex - abuse victims, for reasons ranging from shame and embarrassment to love or fear of their molesters, rarely report the crime.

There's just no explanation for this, from a baseball perspective.

To go back to that Koskie tweet from the eighth inning for a moment, let's just point out how hilarious it would be if MLB went back to the pre-World Series baseballs for a night just to get people to stop talking about how slick the balls are in the World Series, and the result is a 3 - 1 game where suddenly all of the awful pitchers can go back to being good enough.

«The games get a lot of interest from people in the area that just like to watch baseball,» she said.

And I had no reason to be mad at Amy, but I didn't feel better until I snapped, «Just wait until you need to learn how to throw a baseball or make gravy from scratch.»

From the tens of thousands of e-mails I have received over the last six years [now 14], from my conversations with mothers all across the country, including the mothers of many Olympic athletes, I believe that, first, and foremost, the vast majority of mothers (and many fathers, of course) just want to make youth sports fun again, to know that everything possible is being done to protect their children from injury and abuse and given a chance to play until they graduate high school; that if it is no longer safe for our children to learn baseball or soccer on their own on the neighborhood sandlot, the organized sports program in which we enroll our child - the «village» - will protect them and keep them safe while they are entrusted to their cFrom the tens of thousands of e-mails I have received over the last six years [now 14], from my conversations with mothers all across the country, including the mothers of many Olympic athletes, I believe that, first, and foremost, the vast majority of mothers (and many fathers, of course) just want to make youth sports fun again, to know that everything possible is being done to protect their children from injury and abuse and given a chance to play until they graduate high school; that if it is no longer safe for our children to learn baseball or soccer on their own on the neighborhood sandlot, the organized sports program in which we enroll our child - the «village» - will protect them and keep them safe while they are entrusted to their cfrom my conversations with mothers all across the country, including the mothers of many Olympic athletes, I believe that, first, and foremost, the vast majority of mothers (and many fathers, of course) just want to make youth sports fun again, to know that everything possible is being done to protect their children from injury and abuse and given a chance to play until they graduate high school; that if it is no longer safe for our children to learn baseball or soccer on their own on the neighborhood sandlot, the organized sports program in which we enroll our child - the «village» - will protect them and keep them safe while they are entrusted to their cfrom injury and abuse and given a chance to play until they graduate high school; that if it is no longer safe for our children to learn baseball or soccer on their own on the neighborhood sandlot, the organized sports program in which we enroll our child - the «village» - will protect them and keep them safe while they are entrusted to their care.

Currently, three baseball diamonds and four soccer fields are divided among three plateaus bulging from a 99 - acre parcel just west of the Hamilton Reservoir.

Just 25 minutes from downtown Raleigh, Zebulon is a vibrant, welcoming community with activities ranging from sporting events (Carolina Mudcats baseball!)

We're just 1 baseball cap away from being back in 2001.

The beauty of the book is that it's about much more than just baseball, and provides lessons many organisations can learn from.

This gives just enough time for light signals from the baseball to hit the batter's eye, work through the circuitry of the retina, activate successions of cells along the loopy superhighways of the visual system at the back of the head, cross vast territories to the motor areas, and modify the contraction of the muscles swinging the bat.

It's not often I break from the routine of strength training and especially grip training posts, but I just wanted to put something up quick right now related to baseball.

From edgy graphic tees to funky baseball caps and even unique jumpers and juggers with amazing fit that just wouldn't be displayed in the female section, if only you can allow your creativity explore a little bit more.

Baseball aside, I had to show you this cardigan I picked up recently from Shopbop (is it just me or are they always having sales, uh #winning).

Right now, it's my Shinedown baseball tee from the concert I just went to.

I'm ordering a rose gold baseball cap from the Nordstrom sale, so I may just be sharing that with you soon!

Personal favorites — apart from Lily Rose Depp and Usher sitting just two rows away from me, and the impressive show space — were the reoccurring super feminine ruffles, in combination boyish baseball caps, and — of course — the «digital» box - clutch... I haven't seen it up close yet, but there's real little lights in it.

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I enjoy anything from hanging around the house on the deck having a BBQ, to dinner and dancing, and weekend trips on gorgeous days I'd just like to add... I love watching baseball on tv and in person,

Just try and score from 2nd on a base hit... or watch as your baserunner on 2nd dives back instead of advancing to third on a high chopper to the second basemen... or as your baserunner on third stares as your opponent attempts to turn a 4 -6-3 double play instead of scoring... It's as though 2k Sports is more impressed with their realistic collisions and the graphics of reaching into the stands to record a foul out than they are with producing a baseball simulator.

It's the little fun touches that end up elevating The Bigs from being just another yearly baseball installment.

Just one PS3 title clung to a top 20 spot, Jikkyou Powerful Pro Baseball 2011 slipped from no. 12 to no. 20 with 8,601 units sold.

Quietly, Richard Linklater downshifted from his towering 2014 epic, Boyhood, into a largely autobiographical college - baseball comedy that ended up feeling just as deep.

The script's focus is all over the place, and it surely doesn't help that each uplifting moment of this underdog story feels contrived and cloying, from Estaban's assertion that a found baseball is a sign from above to a family medallion, forgotten about and given just when the player needs a motivational boost.

Again, a lesson from baseball: Perkins knew the concept of batting average, then he discovered the concept of «runs created,» a measure of how many runs a batter generates for each time at bat (on average)-- an index more important than just getting hits.

The roofline slants forward in the front as well as in the back, giving the feeling that you're peering out from a baseball cap that's pulled down just a little too low.

Let's see what's in the Home Plate Cookbook: Recipes from Baseball Greats Just Great for Your Home Plate by Gary Saunders, a collection of recipes from players and others connected with the game.

Attending baseball games just become that much more exciting as apart from the game itself, viewers will also have a tablet to play around with if the game turns out to be a test of your patience.

There's even a local baseball team, the Lancaster Barnstormers, who usually play their home opener against the York Revolution, who hails from just down the road.

Check your positions, make trades and check your balances from just about anywhere — yep, even the baseball game.

Minutes away from shopping centers and just a short drive from Sedona, the Grand Canyon and the bustling cultural center home to the Phoenix Open, Spring Training baseball, five Major League sports teams, Arabian horse shows and more.

We're just 4 km from your flight at SDQ and close to Las Americas and Punta Caucedo industrial parks, Parque Cibernético Santo Domingo and Major League Baseball club academies.

Guests are just 20 minutes away from of the bustling ByWard Market neighbourhood and iconic Parliament Buildings and are within walking distance of the Ray Chabot Grant Thornton Baseball Stadium and St. Laurent Shopping Centre.

Meanwhile, the player's options to off zombies are just as varied as ever, from using fireworks stuffed in a zombie mouth to hitting a baseball to make a building explode.

Baseball fans — Before I get to today's picks, just a quick reminder that yesterday we announced some exciting MLB news on the PlayStation Blog — a new MLB.TV application for the PS3 is available from PlayStation Network and allows MLB.TV subscribers to watch every regular season game live in HD — very cool stuff!

The visuals are improving, all the stadiums represent their real - world equivalents, and the game generally just feels like it's gotten a sheen of polish that takes it from being a fun diversion to something worth coming back to as an entertaining baseball game.

Aside from that, though, these are all decent time wasters or just good all around baseball games.