Sentences with phrase «of a baseball game when»

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Gone are the days when you could expense the cost of taking your client to a baseball game.

While he makes a point of attending his son's hockey and baseball games, he takes conference calls on the field when necessary.

We talked, as baseball people do, of the past: He told me how much he'd enjoyed competing against Frank and Brooks Robinson of my Orioles, and he loved the story of how Baltimore fans bombarded showboating Reggie Jackson with hot dogs dispensed from the upper deck when Reggie played his first game in Memorial Stadium after abandoning Baltimore for the fleshpots of New York and the overbearing Yankees.

Who has time for meditating at work when there are football fantasies, bowl (and football and basketball and baseball) pools, golf leagues, fitness centers, video games and coffee breaks to get finished before the end of the day!!!

When Adam came along, we didn't think it was going to be a boy... and all of a sudden, a boy pops out, and I'm thinking wow, this is cool — now I got a girl and a boy — not that I really cared — but you get all the dreams of... I'm going to football games, I'm going to baseball games... whatever it be, yeah, I'm going to be there for my little buddy.

Baseball, that pleasant anachronism we play in the dog days when we have time to catch our breath and dream of the dusty past, was once our game.

My baseball fever began to rise in 1957, when I was six and the O's managed to play.500 ball over the course of the then - 154 game season.

«Football has overtaken baseball as the spectator sport of choice in the United States, and pizza usually is on the game day table when friends and family gather to cheer on their favorite teams,» he said in a statement.

But my most vivid memory is from a baseball game in thelate 1960s at the University of Miami, when head coach Ron Fraser was knockedunconscious by a line - drive foul ball while in the third base coaching box (Hitin the Head, April 20).

When I turned on a full menu of baseball games on MLB.tv, my eyes were never drawn to Twins - Angels.

My point is, every game that is not a win brings out the crowd of critical guys who only comment on Noles Baseball when we lose (particularly to UF, when we are not remotely projected to win).

That home run put the Rangers up 30 - 3, an American League record, a score that was topped only by a Colts / Colonels game from 1897, when baseballs were made out of leather swatches wrapped around shrunken raccoon skulls.

Seems most of the serious negative FSU Baseball posters come on here to comment only when we lose a game, but never show up when the Noles win a game.

When I'm not talking, watching, or coaching baseball, or listening to MLB on Sirius XM, I'm just hanging out with my wife and kids most of the time, watching Alabama football (huge fan of the Tide, and that's where I started on SB Nation on Roll Bama Roll), or watching / reading Game of Thrones.

It would be nice to be able to get value out of switching on whichever game has the best or most interesting players at any given time, though on the other hand baseball probably saps enough of my productivity when I'm watching / following at most one game per day.

• Mayock, a college safety at Boston College, on his draft day — April 29, 1981, when he was chosen in the 10th round, by the Steelers, 265th overall, just 257 picks after a slightly more famous defensive back in the draft, Ronnie Lott: «I was the captain of the Boston College baseball team, and we had games on both days.

According to a 1979 study of 39 professional baseball games, 77 % of the fights in the stands occurred in the least expensive seats; 69 % happened at night; and 70 % in the last four innings, when alcohol had taken hold.

Baseball was the year - round sport in Georgia's farming country until a bright winter Sunday when two young rebels got the boys together and changed the name of the game

While baseball players ask out of games when they get blisters, and football players sit on the bench when they suffer turf toe, NHL players continue to play through pain.

When baseball becomes one's livelihood, there has to be a different kind of outlet to help retain the joy and keep the game fun to play.

Indeed, the whole town habitually mobilizes as if it were going to war when a sports project is under way, and there are countless stories about the Jaycees building baseball bleachers and the Jaycees, the Lions and the American Legion playing benefit games to buy a new P. A. system and whole platoons of town fathers pitching in to carve a sleek new baseball diamond out of a rocky pasture.

Some will tell of last year's Legion baseball championship in Ransom when Mike batted 3 for 5 and pitched a seven - hit game to win the title.

In his scrap - book there are yellowed clippings from days when Mike Peterson was a mere wisp of a child who still could lead the local midgets to a state baseball title by pitching the same game he won with a two - run homer.

When there are 80,000 people tuned into the livestream of a baseball game, that means there's a chance that 80,000 people might see what's on your mind right now, which is almost certainly more people than will read this sentence.

As if freaking Game 7 of the World Series wasn't exciting enough for baseball fans, any Star Wars fans watching got a double dose of awesome when a new Star Wars: The Last Jedi trailer premiered during the middle of the gGame 7 of the World Series wasn't exciting enough for baseball fans, any Star Wars fans watching got a double dose of awesome when a new Star Wars: The Last Jedi trailer premiered during the middle of the gamegame.

According to the Youtube description:» Call of Duty Nazi Zombies comes to life at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, when two UNCG baseball players discover they are transported into a baseball zombies version of the COD game.

It's why «When The Game Stands Tall,» a movie based on the De La Salle football program and its coach Bob Ladouceur, is one of the most anticipated movies in the Bay Area since... wait for it... «Moneyball,» which was based on the Oakland A's — currently the best team in baseball, by the way.

Baseball has been at the forefront of diplomatic relations between the United States and Cuba in the past, and now, when those relations have softened considerably over the past year, we're going to see a game played between the Cuban National Team and the Tampa Bay Rays.

They made trades designed to game baseball's free agent compensation rules, a strategy that came to a head in 2011 when the Rays owned 12 of the first 90 picks in the MLB draft.

The campaign gets its name from the asterisk that originally found its way into sports in 1961 - when Major League Baseball commissioner Ford Frick decided that the new single - season home run record set by the Yankee's Roger Maris of 61 homers would be accompanied by an asterisk to denote the fact that it was set over a 162 - game season eight games longer than the 1927 season in which Babe Ruth had hit 60 homers - but which has been given a whole new meaning in the 2000's as denoting records tainted by an athlete's suspected steroid use.

When she isn't traveling with her family you can find Jasmine behind the wheel of the latest cars, attending baseball games, or wine tasting her way through the Napa Valley.

When a group of neighborhood kids head to the baseball diamond to play an unorganized game of ball, sports are play.

Darrell Mathis, the coach of the Austin baseball team, said that his players are self - conscious about their homemade field when teams from other high schools come to play games.

And in full disclosure this Mets fan didn't exactly sit and watch (9 innings X 162 games =) 1,458 innings of baseball during those losing seasons when the Mets were mathematically eliminated by June 3rd.

LG Kathy Hochul's official Twitter account got ahead of itself last night, congratulating the Mets on beating the Cubs and advancing to baseball's championship series when the deciding game still had more than an inning to go.

Agricultural economist Marshall Burke and his colleagues conducted a meta analysis of 60 previous studies that looked at climatic events and their link to human conflict, including the fall of the Mayan Empire, civil conflicts in Africa, ethnic clashes in India, road rage in the U.S. and even the type of pitches thrown during Major League Baseball games when temperatures rise.

Research shows that approximately 40 percent of the spectators drink alcohol while attending U.S. baseball and football games, especially when alcohol is served within the arenas themselves.

When you consider that all 30 + baseball teams carry at least a 25 - man roster, which for a period expands to 40 and they bring people up from the minors and send people back down all throughout the year, AND this kind of things has been happening since like 1901, you have thousands and thousands of people who played the game that never even came close to this mark.

A bunch of different apps, like Sportaneous, show users where pick - up sports games are happening, so they can hit the baseball field, tennis court, or basketball hoops when the urge hits.

My husband is a huge baseball fan so I look for ideas of how to dress and support his team when we go to games.

at a barons game, you get an even more intimate baseball experience than fans of the show; when was the last time you got to chat with the players at an mlb game?

When his young son, Michael (Daniel E. Smith), is stricken during a baseball game, John and his wife, Denise (Kimberly Elise), discover that their child is in need of an emergency heart transplant.

When a string of murders is linked to night baseball games at the Astrodome, it's Seaver (a former minor league player) pulling together clues and racing against time to prevent yet another murder.

When: September 23rd Why: Though its subject matter may suggest otherwise, director Bennett Miller is adamant that «Moneyball» is about much more than the game of baseball, which is good news for people like me, who aren't very big fans of the sport.

May 3, 2018 - When it comes to sports games, arcade baseball always provides good times no matter if you're a fan of the sport or not.

The game of baseball was over a hundred years old when Oakland A's GM Billy Beane and friends turned the institution on its ear.

For instance, when we were learning about making change, I gave the students six word problems in which each of their teachers went to the concession stand at a baseball game, spent a certain amount of money, and gave a certain amount to the cashier; the problem was to figure out how much change each teacher received.

I like to set the cruse control when I take my son to his out of town baseball games.

When the Malibu Hybrid debuted at the 2008 Major League Baseball All - Star Game, Chevrolet General Manager Ed Peper said, «The Malibu Hybrid «s winning package of uncompromising design and fuel economy will help us assert leadership in the midsize sedan segment and meet the needs of Chevy customers.»

With all the talk of steroids and drugs in baseball this year, Nelson reminds us of another time, a time when players played for the love of the game.