Sentences with phrase «of watching baseball»

Major League Baseball, however, is finding out the hard way that the magic of playing baseball can not sustain the magic of watching baseball.

He will be a fan favorite who allows the masses to remember a happier time, someone who can remind folks that the pleasure of watching baseball isn't something wholly dependent on championships and postseason success.

Sometimes, the pleasure of watching baseball is watching an all - time franchise great doing all - time - great - player things right then and there, to hell with the standings.

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It turns out the number of people who buy tickets to watch Major League Baseball games in a season parallels consumer confidence.

For a family of four to watch professional sports, the tickets can range in price from $ 115.76 for baseball to $ 343.32 for football, with basketball ($ 215.92) and hockey ($ 248.72) in between, and theme parks ($ 209.44) in the same general pricing vicinity.

This week, millions of people worldwide will have watched the 87th Major League Baseball (MLB) All - Star Game, showcasing 70 top players from the American and National Leagues.

He'd been watching a baseball game on television the night before and noticed in the background a child walking down an aisle carrying a glass of beer.

In addition, students can watch videos featuring guest speakers, including Warren and Doris Buffett, baseball Hall of Famer Cal Ripken Jr., and ice cream entrepreneurs Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield.

On Watch, which Facebook began testing earlier this month, more than 2 billion users can see hundreds of shows from the likes of Vox, Buzzfeed, Discovery Communications (disca), Walt Disney's (dis) ABC as well as live sports like Major League Baseball.

Going to church on a sunday is as exciting as watching the 162nd baseball game of the year between two teams who have missed the playoffs... what's the point?

That curve ball was just one of the memories I recalled as my wife, our 12 - year - old son and I watched «Jews and Baseball: An American Love Story,» a film directed by Peter Miller, written by New York Times sportswriter Ira Berkow and narrated by actor Dustin Hoffman.

Even more, it signals baseball season and if I have to wrap myself in an anti-histamine bubble, nothing stops me from treasuring the moments of watching my son play the sport he loves so dearly!!!

As the years rolled on, I found myself sticking around to watch baseball games with my brother, homework in hand of course.

On occasion, baseball fields were laid out more or less side by side where we played, and if the game I was taking part in was not sufficiently interesting, I would turn around and watch another or pass the time with my neighboring exile, a forlorn and uncoordinated wretch who had been banished to the right field of his game.

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

Max Scherzer and Stephen Strasburg are must - see pitchers every fifth day, Trea Turner's speed is something to behold, third baseman Anthony Rendon has one of the prettiest swings in baseball, and the Nationals» bullpen is actually fun to watch now with sinker - balling right - hander Brandon Kintzler, hard - throwing righty Ryan Madson, and bearded heat - thrower Sean Doolittle at the back end.

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The current baseball schedule is dictated by a bunch of weirdos who had only three channels of TV to watch, and that was based on a schedule devised by weirdos without TV.

But only if you sigh afterward and say, OK, fine, that was one of the best baseball careers I'll ever watch.

Whether he is about to become the new face of baseball — which he almost certainly will be if he keeps this up because he plays for the Yankees and can hit the ball so very, very far — Judge is fun to watch right now.

The Angels are suddenly baseball's must - watch team, even after they spent a yearly Department of Defense budget on a player who aged like an unpeeled banana.

Take the enjoyment millions of people get from watching a baseball game without a net and subtract from that the enjoyment they get from watching a baseball game with a net.

In fact, there wasn't much to be gained from it unless you liked giving people the pleasure of watching a good game on Sundays and enjoyed the idea that your town might come to be known all across America for its marvelous baseball team.

The Women's World Cup is over, the Copa America is over, and the only matches to watch right now are the Gold Cup, Wimbledon, Baseball, NBA Summer League basketball and reruns of Game of Thrones.

It takes it from, «Watching baseball in a dark stadium with a retractable roof that wouldn't be opened if it were 72 ˚ and zero percent chance of rain» to «Hell yeah, Marlins Park, let's see Giancarlo Stanton break one of those stupid flamingo beaks off with a 110 - mph dinger.»

Or maybe Jeter watched baseballs pepper it during the Home Run Derby, fell in love just like most of us, and hasn't had time to seek this sculpture - hater out to set him or her straight.

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.

On Sunday, the world watched as Colon was perfect into the eighth inning against Justin Verlander, and even though he lost the lead and didn't make it out of the inning, we're reminded that baseball is good, actually.

Frankly, it's one of the biggest reasons I stopped watching baseball, the Braves play the Marlins, Mets, Phillies and Nationals 20 times each every year, and we play Cubs, Dodgers and Giants 6 times.

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.

Since I've been a hardcore baseball fan, one of my greatest pleasure has been watching all of the eternally cursed teams prove that curses are made up and not eternal.

This is supposed to be a very serious baseball article, and what I was trying to say is that Altuve is fun, regardless of how unique his body type might or might not be, and it's been amazing to watch him reach new heights this season.

As much as I'd like to feed the narrative of football superiority and tease St. Louis for preferring baseball to football, I happened to watch Seahawks - Rams in its entirety.

Presumably most of us have watched enough baseball to know that a team's fortunes can turn on a dime and injuries are the biggest wild card for all the teams.

My prediction: By the end of the month, I'll be watching more minor league baseball than major league baseball because of the wretched play of the major league team.

In 40 years, there will be kids at Yankee Stadium wearing Stanton jerseys, and they'll have only a fraction of an idea of what it was like to watch him deconstruct baseballs and eat their souls.

But baseball is a sport that some of us watch for hundreds and hundreds of hours every year.

«Watching baseball interferes with my study of baseball,» he says.

He didn't though, and part of what makes this homer great is that everybody got to watch a baseball player not rein it in on the biggest stage of his career, and just lean in to how much he enjoyed that great moment.

You thought you were getting at least one baseball player worth watching, and instead you got a box of squished puppies.

But for the general interest of baseball, we probably just watched the last of the Blue Jays we were just getting used to, even if I'm not sure those guys were the ones that actually played in the ALCS.

An exciting part of September baseball is watching teams clinch their berths in the postseason and seeing the stories of the playoffs begin to form throughout the month.

Frankly, I have no idea how it could possibly be construed that quickening the pace of baseball would lead to fewer people watching baseball given the numbers presented in that poll.

So if you wish to see the Angels» whiz kid, maybe pretend you're watching McIlroy line up a shot and refrain from yelling «mashed potatoes» — or whatever the baseball equivalent of that idiotic bleat would be.

INDUSTRIALES MANAGER VARGAS understands the Cuban way of watching and playing baseball.

This string of phenomenal performances has turned every Arrieta start into must - watch baseball and has put oddsmakers in a very precarious position.

You've watched tens of thousands of hours of baseball.

But it's one of my favorite baseball plays of all time partly because it came from one of my favorite baseball players to watch of all time.

Not because it was a good strategy, but because it increased the number of endorphins that were released while watching baseball.

In the early days of pro baseball, playing — or even watching — a game on the Sabbath was as reprehensible as calling a woman's limb a leg