Sentences with phrase «like catcher»

Like a catcher who tries to make a pitch look better by always moving his glove into the strike zone after he catches it.

Certainly, I can look at other books and try to match their style, and I can contort Word around in lots of interesting ways, but until I actually see it in physical form, I'll always be wondering if it looks more like The Catcher in the Rye or a 300 - page ransom note.

Writer / director Danny Strong (co-creator of «Empire,» screenwriter of the «Mockingjay» films and actor in «Gilmore Girls» and «Buffy») introduces us to Salinger before all of that happened, young, ambitious, and like Catcher in the Rye «s Holden Caulfield, a smart aleck who has left or been asked to leave a number of top schools.

Two Bachmann aides with iPads strapped to their hands like catcher's mitts mill around the crowd, signing people up to vote for Bachmann in the straw poll.

It looked like the catcher thought he had the ball — but then realized the ball had fallen out after making the first tag.

Smurf Jacks, squatting like a catcher and doing jumping jacks in said squat.

Along with novels like The Catcher in the Rye, A Farewell to Arms and The Lord of Rings, the editors decided to include the Bible in their list of the most overrated books of «all - time.»

Not exact matches

Earnings per share may be open to manipulation, but laying blame for this at the feet of all CEOs is like blaming baseball catchers for blocking the plate.

Musk wants to slow the upper stage down during reentry and target a landing aboard a «catcher ship» like the boat, known as Mr. Steven, that SpaceX is using to attempt fairing recoveries in the Pacific.

According to the regulator, the article (which has since been removed) also included a live feed from Dylon's Facebook page, as well as a sentence at the end that said «It's at times like these we are thankful that Dylon Colour Catcher is there to save us.»

Like Gregg Zaun, a former Blue Jays catcher, who faced a fair share of Internet shaming for one rather mean - spirited tweet sent from a bar back in December.

StingRay (also known as «Hailstorm» or «TriggerFish») is an «IMSI catcher» basically acts like a cell phone tower, and sends out signals which force cell phones to ping them back with information showing their owner's location and other identifying information.

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It was the blockbuster book of the 1980s, catching the spirit of the age in all its glittery egotism («Masters of the Universe») and cheap urban politics (the opening scene is an 80s version of «mau - mauing» that ends up exploding in chaos, not like the scripted routines Wolfe described in «Mau - Mauing the Flak Catchers» a decade earlier).

It's quite an eye catcher and I'd like to see other works of the same artist.

The rabbit catcher husband liked the tiny bits of sweet crunch that the whole cereal provides.

The guy by himself with the catcher to the left & the guy signing the ball to the right does not look like Clemente.

Grandal hasn't been hitting, but it's not like he's been a dominant offensive catcher all season.

Both Schurrle and KDB are Chelsea rejects and so are Lukaku and Sturridge so perhaps we should have a permanent reject catcher at Stamford bridge and pick up some more bargains like Cech Falcao any one?

WAR is kind of trash for evaluating catchers, but it's also the best way to run a search like this.

Look, I can keep going — I could point out how they had Welington Castillo for six games, and how he went on to accumulate more WAR with his new team than any Mariners catcher from the last 10 years, or I could regret to inform you that Mike Zunino is bad again — but it seems like overkill.

More importantly, it's not like that 88 mark at the bottom (from a plus defensive catcher, no less) is a serious liability.

Never ever heard a catcher reason like Flowers!

Like you said, I don't want the next Adrian Peterson because they wouldn't be a top - shelf player in today's NFL (though I'm fine with guys who are only runners and aren't pass - catchers, as long as they can do it in ways that fit with today's NFL)... but I want my generational RBs to be on that type of a level.

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«For [catcher Jason] Varitek, I wrote, «What is it like to be a switch - hitter?»

Maybe we could get him in the Rule 5 draft, but if the Yankees protect him, they still are deep in outfielders, he is still blocked, and the Yankees might well take a 2'd tier pitching prospect, or a catcher like Grierson.

It was as a catcher that he was drafted in 1965 by the Reds, whose scouts had seen him go 1 for 8 in two Legion games but liked the way he threw and moved around.

He moved like he was carrying around Hanley Ramirez wearing full catcher's gear.

Russell Martin will be a 34 - year - old catcher, which is almost like a 41 - year - old first baseman.

It might sound like splitting hairs, but how about a # 2 «pass catcher»?

And while his.127 /.227 /.127 /.398 sucks at this moment, his value to a team like the Mets (who've lost their two catchers, and D'Arnaud out for the year) may be high.

His plate patience is still lacking (he's taken just two walks), but the veteran catcher still looks like a valuable contributor.

Sure there is like a 1 in 50 [guessing] chance the catcher rushes the throw and throws it down the RF line or something else stupid happens.

From Brooks Baseball, here's what the pitch looked like from the catcher's perspective:

The writers told me that Mike Redmond, our backup catcher, hits Glavine real good, something like.484.

Moya looks like a pitcher who can contribute in a major league bullpen right away; Murphy was hitting poorly for a Triple - A catcher, much less someone who belongs on a major league roster.

That's just over half of what it would take to get the record from Henderson, and maybe like the.400 hitter, maybe catchers are just too good now.

A defense - minded catcher like Jason Castro, who could complement a young Jorge Alfaro, not block him.

Like keeping a 3rd catcher, some teams would keep a position player with an excellent arm on their bench for just such an occasion.

The decision to cut Montero Wednesday afternoon wasn't aimed at preventing friction between the catcher teammates like Arrieta or Anthony Rizzo; it was meant to send a clear message to the young core of Cubs who witnessed the fallout.

His best years are likely behind him, like when «Ross the Merciless» hit 21 home runs in 2006 on the Cincinnati Reds, but he's a veteran presence and, unlike most backup catchers, not a liability with the bat.

Like everyone else, Ojeda must be wondering why one of the Mets» aces wasn't traded long ago for a catcher or a centerfielder.

I think they may be comfortable enough with Rod Smith and now Olawale as pass catchers to look at someone like Chubb.

It seems like the right kind of extension for the kind of player Molina is, though: three years isn't an especially long time, even for a catcher of Molina's age.

He has had issues with getting pegged by foul balls this season, to the point where skipper Jim Leyland says that, «Avila probably gets hit more than any catcher I've ever seen — I've never seen anything like it.»

You can also find them online at sites like Steve Spangler Science.Think a butterfly net or bug catcher for your naturalist, test tubes for your chemist, or blocks and other construction toys for little engineers.

But I also really like the nautical bracelet because of the middle dream catcher - ish part.