Sentences with phrase «make good pitches»

I still believe if you make good pitches, it wouldn't matter if they were swinging aluminum bats.

But you remember the times when there were men on and he got a base hit and hurt you or the times when you've made the good pitch and gotten him out.

Sometimes, the pitcher makes a good pitch.

It has issued a very public call for states and metropolitan areas to make their best pitches.

In the competition for $ 4 billion in Race to the Top grants, states have made their best pitches, a secret jury has debated and scored their applications - and now U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan must decide who's good enough to make it to the final round...

Learn more about the agents attending this year's conference: what they're looking for, what makes a good pitch, and what doesn't.

Although the particular firm or company may not be advertising, they may be interested in an excellent candidate who makes a good pitch.

Traditionally, a couple would go to court with lawyers who had never spoken to each other before, go before the judge and make their best pitch.

While the summary makes a good pitch for soft skills supported by patient care expertise, the core qualifications section supplements with the ubiquitous but still essential basics required to succeed in a nursing job.

Before being honest about your gap in the resume, you need to accept the fact that your absence will have an impact on your recruitment and being honest upfront would only help you to make a good pitch to the recruiters.

Not exact matches

That they happen to make billions of dollars while serving the cause of what they see as good is pitched largely as a coincidence.

We talked with Finkelstein about his experience judging business pitches on the show, the best pointers about how to pitch a business idea, and how to get him to make a deal.

Some, too, dangle free accommodations at a luxury hotel to lure you into a high - pressure sales pitch for timeshares or vacation clubs, while others make good on that free cruise for you, but require you to book a second guest at a grossly inflated price.

This style of mixing great info with the sales pitch is one of the best ways to make people pay attention to your sales pitch without getting turned off by it.

When collaborations happen, and several minds contribute to make a plan better, the result can be vastly better than the original proposal that the persuader was trying to pitch.

Write them, tweet at them and pitch a coherent and completely polished story (don't make the reporter or producer work), and you have a good chance — assuming you have established yourself.

Smith started Vice as a print magazine with Suroosh Alvi and Gavin McInnes in Montreal more than two decades ago; with Smith at the helm as CEO, it's now a multi-platform content mill with a reported audience of between 250 million and 300 million people a month, many of them members of Generation Y. Smith made his money by convincing an older generation that Vice knows millennials better than they could ever hope to, and that pitch has worked: Rupert Murdoch's 21st Century Fox paid US$ 70 million for a 5 % stake of Vice in 2013, and Rogers Communications (which owns Canadian Business) inked a $ 100 million partnership.

It's best to have your video created as your primary and self - contained pitch because it will be the first and often only stop visitors to your page will make.

Whether our job is judging a fellow negotiator, a sales pitch, or an interviewee, it's important to look for signs to help us make good decisions.

How to make a decision, personalize your funding pitch, find an original name for your business and more: our best tips of the week.

The better you understand what makes an effective elevator pitch, the more likely you will attract investors and customers.

The Inc. + TOMS Pitch for Good is a program created by Inc. and TOMS to identify promising social businesses and invite a few of them to make their cases directly to a panel of judges, including Blake himself, at Inc.'s 2016 Growco Conference on May 17.

What would be best is if founders didn't have to make decisions on any of these small incubators / investors until they'd pitched all of them.

Horner said Alberta has tried to address some of Ottawa's complaints about the current system by pitching its own proposal — one that would create a new national enforcement agency as well as a national systemic risk committee made up of all 13 regulators and chaired by the federal minister.

With promises of more transparent government, better - trained police and improved public schools, four of the leading candidates for Baltimore County executive made their pitch to voters at a forum Saturday in Woodlawn.

When this is the case, a sales representative could well be slowing down the sales process by trying to pitch to an IT person with no decision - making authority.

Or has the act of making a public appearance at which investors are pitched mean you are already necessarily under 506 (c) and, in the immortal interjection of Gov. Perry, whoops, you'd better have filed your Form D 15 days back already?

You are correct that I, ``... don't have to swing at every pitch,» but I have found that remaining consistent with my buys (making at least one buy every month) helps take some of the guesswork out of trying to time the market and find the best possible time to invest.

It makes sense that such intense competitive pressure drives startup founders to pitch their company to prospective hires in ever more grandiose terms, exaggerate how well their company is «crushing it,» and make their company culture sound like the happiest place on earth.

This is the age of authenticity (don't pitch people) made compelling by a good story or way of doing business that makes the person sharing it look smart.

When Kraft Heinz first approached Oprah to enlist her help, the company pitched the new product concept as a way to make «better - for - you» food available to communities that may not have that option.

Filled with more than 150 recipes that are allergen - free, the cookbook also includes gluten - free options, as well as vegan, Paleo friendly, kid friendly and no sugar added options; Heather has also indicated which recipes can be made - ahead, which are great for entertaining and those that might be perfect to serve at potlucks — or «pitch - ins» as they are called here in the Midwest.

«A good double - play combination makes a pitching staff,» says Billy Pierce, the White Sox ace.

So the best way to make the young pitching staff better is to take pressure off them.

From the first whistle we looked tentative and were second best all over the pitch to Man City, who made the most of our poor start with a goal from Sane after one pass left him through on goal.

And even though Mike Zunino got good marks as a pitch framer last year, wouldn't it make sense for the Mariners and Brewers to make a patience - for - immediacy exchange that would benefit them both?

They never considered trading Francisco Lindor, of course, but they also held on to their young pitching, even though they had five average - or - better starters under the age of 30 make at least 24 starts in 2013.

Just because our last two captains Arteta and Vermaelen spent more time in the treatment room than on the pitch does not make it a good idea, so it seemed logical that the boss would hand it to another player who would be playing and it was reported that it could be our midfield maestro Santi Cazorla.

, ozil as our attacking mid (because there's no one better at making positive things happen on the pitch than him), sanchez on the left, welbeck up top, and Walcott on the right.

Bear in mind that Sanchez while no doubt making our attack better does not play in a area of the pitch which was our weakness.

There were a lot of other things as well that I've forgotten now, but we did make it onto the beach in the end, looking for the white band of surf to tell us where the tide was in the pitch dark.

As reported by Metro, the summer signing from Lyon has been talking about life at his new club in the Premier League and he made a point of praising the attitude and effort that he sees from Alexis in training as well as out on the pitch.

But it seems to me that the young Frenchman makes adversity work for him and that grit is now showing itself on the pitch, where he just refuses to let the opposition get the better of him in the same way that he refused to let his many struggles stop him from making a go of his career.

The 24 - year - old left - back has caught the eye this term and could make a good replacement for Filipe Luis at Stamford Bridge, with the Brazilian failing to look like adequate backup to first - choice Cesar Azpilicueta in that part of the pitch.

Didn't have enough time to make an impact, but it is good for the Spaniard to be back on the pitch after injury troubles.

Theo is not the most intelligent player on the pitch, and can not spot killer pass like Ozil, his decision making on the ball need to improve — it is hard to make good decision when you are running at full speed.

Start laying in the foundations for a new manager now, get the right type of support and in 12 months time when Wengers contract runs out we bid him a good farewell and remember the good he done, it gives the club 12 months to make the changes and then we can show any great manager that we mean business on the pitch and not just off it.

It's hard to make good decisions when your pitching staff has performed as poorly as they have.

«Our highs were the men's team becoming a priority team and also the women's team creating a bond off the pitch with the Cheshire - based team, which made them merging this season easy and one of the best moves to happen in the club.

The competition makes it's return after a year out, with last summer's European Championship as well as necessary pitch reconstruction work having forced the club to cancel last year's edition.