Sentences with phrase «of the baseball teams in»

In a deft synthesis of escapism and dreadful reality — like successfully mixing ice cream with Buckley's cough syrup — an unknown sports sophisticate and political junkie named Paul Kaplan (an Atlanta Braves fan, but that's not a crime) sent a letter to his congressman to protest the defeat of his baseball team in the National League playoffs and demand they be crowned the winners anyway.

No headline about the World Series makes the point that the league finalists — the Detroit Tigers and the Los Angeles Dodgers — could beat most of the baseball teams in the AA leagues even if not at the top of the majors.

FiveThirtyEight put together a list of every baseball team in MLB history to determine how the 2016 Cubs rank compared to them.

Not exact matches

I sometimes compare customer service to a farm team in baseball — our new employees who start there have plenty of fresh talent and energy, but may need a little guidance to figure out how they can shine the brightest.

However, despite public fear and criticism of Steinbrenner's controversial decisions, eventually he led the team to an amazing comeback, with six World Series entries between 1996 and 2003, and a record as one of the most profitable teams in Major League Baseball.

This weekend pays tribute to a specific era, 1985 - 89, and features a host of initiatives like cars with old - school car paint schemes, commemorative ticket and program designs, specially - designed apparel, retro food offerings at the track... unlike, say, baseball or football throw - back games where the only real change is the team's uniforms, Darlington and its partners goes all in.

A superb manager knows how to get the most out of every player on the team — in baseball and in business.

As any baseball fan would tell you, finding three free days for two teams in the middle of summer is no easy task.

But entrepreneurs could also learn a few lessons by examining the hiring practices of Major League Baseball teams, most of whom — the ones in small and medium markets — adhere to strict budgets for their payrolls.

With the first game of the World Series playoffs around the bend, it's hard not to feel the buildup of excitement for the baseball teams in the running.

In 1939, he was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame and was the first MLB player to have his uniform number (4) retired by a team.

The shooting took place as a GOP congressional baseball team was practicing in Alexandria, Virginia, ahead of a charity game between Republicans and Democrats scheduled for Thursday.

Walker became one of the youngest members to serve on the Stanford Board of Trustees; found a career in his chosen field of real estate, where he has a successful real estate investment fund; holds equity in Hollywood nightclubs; and has a small ownership stake in the Oakland Athletics Major League Baseball team.

The future of one of the most feared relief pitchers in Major League Baseball, Mariano Rivera, is suddenly in doubt after he tripped during a recent New York Yankees team practice in Kansas City, Mo..

Patience is generally a virtue in management of a baseball team, a business or an investment portfolio.

When women routinely win Nobel Prizes in physics, chemistry or medicine, when a woman becomes a world chess champion, when a woman conceives and develops a brand new computer chip that represents a significant advancement over quad cores, when a woman invents warp drive or phasers, when a woman solves an «insolvable» math problem, when a woman, while working with the Large Hadron Collider, discovers the now - hypothetical Higgs Boson to be an actual scalar subatomic particle, when a woman figures out how to pinpoint the exact location of an electron at any point in time, when a woman working for Merck or Pfizer develops a remedy for Alzheimer's disease, when a woman's baseball team can defeat the New York Yankees, when a woman can bench press six hundred pounds, run the 100 meter dash in under nine seconds or set a world record in the high jump, then the fairer sex will have made an advance or contribution unlike any it has made before.

I will probably die of old age with a camera in my hand, photographing a little league baseball team.

«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.

Batter Up & Pass the Corkscrew Baseball fans who want to enjoy wine in honor of their favorite pastime can now find bottles with MLB ™ team logos on premium labels printed by Labeltronix.

When I say our Baltimore team struck gold in supporting a great cause last month, I am referring to the bowling kind of strike, not the baseball kind or the panning...

After starring on A's teams that won three consecutive world championships, after seeing the burlesque melodrama of his relationship with Finley played out in the papers, Reggie, perhaps the most compelling, certainly the most visible, personality in baseball, had arrived.

The future of Canadian baseball is bright, and yet, Team Canada's manager, Ernie Whitt, decided relying heavily on retired MLB veteran Ryan Dempster was the way to go against a stacked Team USA lineup in a win - or - go - home affair.

With just over a month of baseball to go in the regular season, maybe the Mets can still make it to the postseason, but they were already lagging behind three other teams in the NL Wild Card race, with another just a game back of them.

We're all fans of the same team, you know, «best fans in baseball» 2.

The Astros can hit with any team in the league, with a young top - four of the lineup that is the envy of every team in baseball.

Since he was fired from his job as assistant general manager of the Baltimore Orioles in December 1995, Robinson has been unattached to a professional baseball team, and he has been home day after day.

They remind us of a paradox, in which baseball teams should a) always think about the future and b) worry about nothing but the short - term because that future might not exist.

Three years ago, the Astros were one of the worst non-expansion teams in baseball history, and the Reds had a young, dominant rotation.

That best - team - in - baseball bit doesn't mean much of anything in the World Series, as we all know.

Are they the only team in baseball that has an organizational philosophy of «Wait until February and see what shakes out?»

Are the Orioles the only team in baseball that would have followed ultra-rare postseason appearances with devastating periods of hibernation?

I am a huge sports fan.I love nfl and college football i never get enough of it.I am a big soccer [the other football] fanatic.I like basketball, hockey, some baseball and rugby.I am a big jersey buyer i have a lot of jerseys mostly of american football and soccer.I love the strategy of football i think it is fascinating.I have been a falcons fan since 1990 when the went to all black helmets and jerseys i was a fan because of that and because of primetime deion sanders.I have been a falcons fan through thick and thin win or lose they are my team regardless of how they do.I hope to one day visit Atlanta and see them play at home in Georgia.I hope to one day see them bring back black jerseys as the home colors.I am still a fan of the run n shoot offense i truly believe it can work in the nfl if ran and merged with some two back formations and a one back three wide one tight end formation.

He was a top - five prospect in baseball before last season, and he's still just 22, the kind of burgeoning talent that most teams would depend on.

They were one of baseball's «It» teams, a team you would tune in to watch, just because.

There were only 10 homegrown players on the 40 - man roster as of Feb. 3, easily the lowest percentage of any team in baseball.

Let's talk about the different classifications of teams in Major League Baseball.

Sirs: Either the Orioles are the greatest team in the history of baseball or the National League simply is not as good as some people would have us believe.

There have been 34 times that a baseball team has been down 0 - 3 in a best - of - seven postseason series.

There is no team in baseball that knows this kind of disappointment, and if the Indians actually win it all, there won't be a team that knows it for another decade, at least.

Canadian stars like Joey Votto didn't participate, and while Canadian baseball players are talented in their own right, it's harder for them to hide that kind of loss that teams like the U.S. or Dominican Republic could shrug off thanks to depth.

They were one of the only teams in baseball to hit November with a laundry list of needs and spend the next few months checking them all off.

The Pirates are perhaps the saddest team in baseball (for multiple reasons), but not because of their inherent Piratesitude, but because expectations were so high in the first place.

And because of teams leaving Canseco and Sierra alone, it led to one of the most compelling trades in baseball history, even if it flopped for both sides.

Now the Indians are one of the very best teams in baseball because of that pragmatism.

For now, we'll assume that every team in baseball is scared of Stanton's contract in some capacity.

There has been plenty of bad baseball teams in Twins» history, but last year's team was worse than any of them.

Pitchers who could make the rotations of 20 teams around baseball were going to start in the minors.

If they act with the slightest sense of urgency, they'll stop being the weirdest team in baseball.

Most teams will be forced to expose a lot of high - priced players in the expansion draft — as baseball teams did in the major league expansion draft last year — and the Bottles and the Cakes, with decent coaching, should win some games early.

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.