One could be because many players are swinging up
on the baseball rather than chopping down on it.
Not exact matches
Besides, I have tickets to a
baseball game
on Saturday night and I would
rather be left behind with the sinners so I can go to the game.
Cherington, a former GM who was part of the three Red Sox World Series runs during his time as an exec, took
on a VP role and demotion from his last job with a team that already has a GM and a president of
baseball ops
rather than takeover the Twins.
i would
rather watch the groundskeeper mow the
baseball field than watch the team play
baseball on it
And when it comes down to it, if given the choice, my kids would
rather have a (relatively) rested, calm, relaxed and PRESENT mom to come home to after school and to tuck them in at night than one who is their class mom and girl scout troop leader and
baseball team mom and who runs the school store organizes the school fundraiser and is
on every board there is to be
on in town (I don't do all that stuff, but you get the point) and who is also a complete and total stressed out and spread thin raging lunatic from the moment they get home until the moment they are in bed.
There's just something intrinsically comforting about
baseball itself that the makers of this film are able to exploit, as the game, like the movie itself, is not in a hurry, working
on fundamentals and small things,
rather than going up to the plate to swing for the fence wildly.
Rather than the last day of high school, here a group of college
baseball players in San Marcos come together before the 1980 school years gets
on its way.
Much like Nintendo's own compilations
on the Wii,
Baseball and Table Tennis are included, but they rely
on staring at your opponent and gauging the timing and placement of sounds
on the TV or console screen, which just comes off as
rather awkward.
World Series
Baseball 2K1, 2001: Despite being a part of the 2K series, World Series
Baseball 2K1 was not developed by Visual Concepts but
rather WOW Entertainment (if it wasn't, it wouldn't be
on this list!).
Rather, McCormick explains that the show is «[a] modest sampling of some of the ways in which
baseball has entered the lexicon of contemporary visual art; Seventh - Inning Stretch is hopefully a meditation
on how and why we care.
Fendrich goes
on to say that «the conventions are established, just as in
baseball, and to derive pleasure from abstraction requires accepting its basic rules
rather than continuously deconstructing them.»