Sentences with phrase «like minor league»

There's nothing quite like some savoury «befores» to make anyone feel like a minor league design hero.

But blog also writes about other baseball related topics like minor league baseball, major league baseball and baseball in general.

«Joshy» is like a minor league version of a huge comedy, but it very often gets the same size of laughs.

But blog also writes about other baseball related topics like minor league baseball, major league baseball and baseball in general.

WWE's foray into niche programming runs deeper than this, too: they have NXT, which seems even more like minor league wrestling — and not in a pejorative sense — since the brand split helped strip the roster for parts, leaving behind many still learning the craft.

Not exact matches

And then there are people like Jason Klein the young branding executive who, when hired to rename the Hartford minor league baseball team, chose the bizarre, seemingly ridiculous, and ultimately ingenious name, Yard Goats.

So we're really going to be more like unaffiliated minor leagues.

This year, Aurelio's sausage was sold at the Joliet, Ill., Slammers and Whiting, Ind., Oilmen minor league baseball parks on buns with toppings like hot jardinière or tomato sauce and mozzarella cheese.

Although Arsenal fans are 99 % certain that the Gunners can not qualify for the Champions League by finishing in the Top Four of the Premier League and our only remaining hope is to win the Europa League and sneak in the back door, like Man United did next season, it would appear that the Boss thinks his team need to win against some «big teams» before we can consider winning the minor European trophy.

ESPN.com does use wire services like the Associated Press for most game recaps and much of the league's day - to - day news, and the AP uses software as described by Cuban to recap some minor league baseball games.

Beset by injuries to key players like Brett Hull, Pierre Turgeon and Al MacInnis, they have put together a corps of former minor league workhorses, including Blair Atcheynum, Jim Campbell, Chris Conroy, Pavol Demitra, Scott Pellerin and Terry Yake, who refused to give up their NHL dream.

He came out of nowhere, and if you're not a Mariners fan, he serves as a reminder that your favorite team's minor league system probably has an arm like this, only buried under layers and layers of inexperience and poor control.

Looks like this may not be a great year for the minor league affiliates as teams.

And now, there's a minor league just like it?

Every year, you scan the depths of your team's minor - league system, wondering if someone like this will show up.

I really liked his hit tool from the few times I saw him live and my constant scouring of box scores (which is ultimately meaningless, but it causes me to develop attachments to minor league players).

Migrating former All - Stars like Dontrelle Willis are landing on Long Island for one last fling with the minor league Ducks

However, today I would like to talk about how weird it is there is an addendum about minor league baseball in the 2018 omnibus spending bill.

While I'm unprepared to argue the specific text of the bill, and everyone else has already pointed out how comically underpaid minor league baseball players are, considering they're the lifeblood of a multi-billion dollar industry, I'd like to remind everyone of an often overlooked point about minor leaguers.

It's unknown just when he'll be ready for the majors, but both Moncada and the Sox have time on their side, especially since he signed a minor league deal and not a major league one, making him just like any other prospect.

Just like people watch the D - League or college basketball in the interest of seeing future basketball stars or go to minor league baseball games for a glimpse of the future of MLB, people will watch the future of WWE aLeague or college basketball in the interest of seeing future basketball stars or go to minor league baseball games for a glimpse of the future of MLB, people will watch the future of WWE aleague baseball games for a glimpse of the future of MLB, people will watch the future of WWE at NXT.

Tottenham's euphoric run finally came to an end on Saturday as Manchester United dented their bid to land fourth spot, but it was just a dent, a minor setback if you like, as Harry's Spurs still occupy that final Champions League berth, albeit by virtue of goal difference.

Attending a minor league baseball game is a great way to introduce your kids to the game, and there is nothing quite like the excitement of high school football.

A lawyer for families and children, Ms. Ruhe decries the bureaucratic waste she sees in agencies like the Department of Children and Families and in projects like the troubled minor league baseball stadium in Hartford.

New York - produced goods like beer and wine, as well as agriculture products, have been sold for the last several years under the Taste NY banner at a variety of events and attractions in the state, including minor league baseball games and entertainment events produced by Live Nation.

While upstate cities like Rochester, Syracuse and Binghamton have Double - A and Triple - A baseball, the Capital Region only has short - season minor - league baseball since the Albany - Colonie Yankees left.

While upstate cities like Rochester, Syracuse and Binghamton have Double - A and Triple - A baseball, the Capital Region only has short - season minor - league baseball since the Albany - Colonie

The latter starred minor league celebrities and artists including the singer - songwriter Birdy and American actor RJ Mitte, and Banana Republic is taking a similar tack, casting real - life couples like singer - songwriters Aloe Blacc and Maya Jupiter and «The Last Magazine» editor Tenzin Wild and model Tao Okamoto.

Houston also has minor league teams for other sports like Ultimate Frisbee (the Mud Turtles), in - line hockey (the Venom), and rugby (the Hornets).

He actually read my online dating profile (yeah, people really READ those), noticed that I liked hockey and invited me to a minor league game downtown.

While he has accrued several noteworthy screen assignments (including the starring role of a nasty hockey player in 1992's The Cutting Edge), D.B. Sweeney is best remembered for his even - keel portrayal of the tragic Shoeless Joe Jackson in Eight Men Out (1988); if he looked like a «natural» on the ballfield, it was because Sweeney had once actually played minor league baseball with the Kenosha Twins, hanging up his spikes after a knee injury.

The franchise mode is particularly standout with added depth of player control over things like concession pricing, arena maintenance, budget guidelines, and of course management of both Pro and minor league teams - with the ability to take control a play a game at any time for either of them.

This third film, Major League: Back to the Minors, will do little to bring new fans to the series, but for those who like these irreverent, eccentric sports flicks, it's dumb entertainment, but entirely watchable nonetheless.

We're not enjoying the ride with a wacky bunch of minor league hockey players, we're picking out beats and recognizing that Last of the Enforcers is a lot like Rocky III (with parts of II peppered in)... on ice!

It's like 1998's Major League: Back to the Minors in that respect.

For every Adrián Beltré success story (he was signed to the Dodgers at age 15 and transitioned well), there are a dozen Dominican players like the fictional composite Miguel «Sugar» Santos — a talented pitcher hacking it out in the U.S. minor leagues.

That is still true to some extent, though like in baseball, there are minor league players who can clean the clock of some major leaguers, and they get their spotlight from that position.

It's like becoming a major league baseball pitcher only to be sent down to the AAA minor leagues.

A funny thing about Time Recoil is that despite of playing in a minor league, it plays a lot like another Finnish time - warping action romp Quantum Break.

then again i guess you need to do something at least even trivial like this to give the impression that they are the smart ones and the rest of us are relly minor league....

Good point Jim... BUT... if brokerages ideally going forward have to compete with other brokerages for only a small number of recent competent graduates per year (instead of the tumble weed - like overabundance of wide - eyed hoping - for - good - luck babes - in - the - woods minor league» rs) who are highly educated (both academically and industry related), well experienced in some kind of previous real estate related venture (other than simply as a commissioned sales person) who can also prove that they have an ethics - driven background «prior» to being allowed into real estate transaction schooling / training, then that ball falls squarely in Organized Real Estate's bureaucratic court of currently - fuzzy parameters.