Sentences with phrase «points of baseball»

But you won't need to understand all the fine points of the baseball - like sport's rules to enjoy Fire in Babylon, a documentary detailing the exploits of the athletes who represented the Caribbean against a host of colonizing countries during their glory days of the Seventies and Eighties.

As they learn the finer points of baseball, JB, with the help of his charming friend Brenda (Lake Bell), learns valuable life lessons about teamwork, commitment and what it means to be a family.

Should you spend the 20 - minute ride to the game giving your 10 year - old a lecture in the finer points of baseball?

The All - Star break is the unofficial midway point of the baseball season.

Not exact matches

Lewis points out, for instance, that early baseball stats didn't bother to record the number of walks a batter earned — mostly because one of the early promoters of baseball stats, a journalist named Henry Chadwick, happened to be a fan of cricket, a sport where there's no such thing as a «walk.»

«Not making the baseball team at West Point,» Eisenhower later said, «was one of the greatest disappointments of my life, maybe my greatest.»

In a recent TED talk, for example, American health guru Ron Gutman, founder of the Wellsphere blog network and the HealthTap site, pointed to studies of old pictures — ranging from yearbook headshots to mugs on baseball cards — that found people who smiled in youthful photos turned out to live better and longer lives than folks who didn't.

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

Worse, they were run by executives who were still viewed as know - it - all baseball outsiders — like the G.M., former management consultant Jeff Luhnow, and the so - called Director of Decision Sciences, the former NASA engineer Sig Mejdal — even though the men had at that point worked within the game for a decade.

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.

Mark, I think you missed the point Bill Buckner still choose to play baseball regardless of me knowing the outcome.

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?

If baseball or American soccer fans took their superior att - itudes to the point of trying to ban other sports, I'd be on their boards all the time.

Piper side - stepped the main issue between the two camps: from an Old - School perspective the New Calvinism smacks of the evangelical revivalism of a D. L. Moody, or, more to the point, the baseball - player - turned - evangelist Billy Sunday (insert Mark Driscoll reference here).

Maybe a better way to illustrate the point is to list how much guaranteed payroll every team will have on the books from 2019 through 2021, with the numbers courtesy of Baseball - Reference.

But I will point out that this is the perfect example of just how weird baseball players have it.

Reminds me of how the Astros told Verlander last year to drop his release point to where it was earlier in his career (he didn't know it was different), and he has been the 4th - best pitcher in baseball (by wOBA) since that day (Sept 5, 2017).

If I wanted to be a disingenuous putz, I could pretend that comparison meant something (as if the bodies of a high schooler and a grown - ass professional athlete wouldn't be markedly different), and I could point out that Jones sure had a noticeable dip in production when he turned 32 and then suddenly got much better (as if that kind of variance doesn't happen in baseball all the freaking time).

Just pointing out the streaky nature of baseball and the reality of what this team was last year... an average team for 93 games then an extremely good team for 69 games plus the playoffs.

The reason for this is we're kind of reaching a singularity in baseball, with two lines converging to a single, obvious point.

We can point fingers later, but right now, the Rangers are the feel - good team of baseball.

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).

To fall in love with baseball cards again, I had to see them like a Tralfamadorian would, as points in the mountain range of time, each of them a fixed moment in a non-linear universe.

I get that he's coming from Oakland and he wasn't used to run support there, but at what point does he shake that off and realize he has the support of one of the most prolific offenses in baseball?

The smoldering wreckage of the contract seems like a truism at this point, something that was both obvious and unavoidable, but there was once a time when smart baseball people had smart baseball debates about Hamilton's future value.

If bat flips don't become more common, that means that at some point, the global expansion of the sport will turn into contraction, with baseball getting more insular.

The point isn't that baseball teams can suffer quick changes of fortune.

As Arthur also points out, this all means that MLB's home run surge can end in an instant: once the baseballs are changed again in a way that reduces the slickness of the balls once more.

We caution that, although these results are based on thousands of spring training games, this is a smaller sample size relative to our complete baseball database (which now covers almost 20,000 data points over eight seasons).

Boston College's stretch - run offensive explosion (36 points per game in the second half of the regular season) still feels too good to be true, and a meeting with the Hawkeyes — traditionally a stylistic kindred spirit — inside a baseball stadium should remind the Eagles of the first - to -14-points thrillers from whence they came.

Coach Morales offers private lessons in all aspects of baseball including pitching, hitting and defense.Batting including proper stance, knowledge of terms, contact point, driving the ball to all parts of the field, pitch recognition, release finish.Pitching including, proper mechanics, introduction of off - speed pitches, back side rotation, extensionPrivate lessons also include conditioning tips and exercises to keep players healthy and durable.

Because if I started with a headline of «It's a long baseball season, with a lotta ups and a lotta downs,» there wouldn't have been a point in writing the rest of the article.

Hes made a point of trying to make baseball more emotional and outlandish, which certainly clashes with the uptight culture the yankees have.

He's much older than the typical prospect, and he missed out on a decade of baseball, and those are important points.

Sure, it seems hard on Thursday night when you need the baseball fix you're used to, but it's the (non-mathematical) halfway point of the season.

This is known in baseball as «Godwin's Unwritten Law,» invoking the name of Derek Jeter to prove a point about unwritten rules because, no, seriously, what in the absolute hell does Derek Jeter have to do with any of this?

He would have been a free agent after 2012 at which point he was one of the best pitchers in baseball.

Kapler was a former player that the new front office made a point to bring into the organization when they took over, and he already had a relationship with president of baseball operations Andrew Friedman from a time before either were Dodgers.

While I'm unprepared to argue the specific text of the bill, and everyone else has already pointed out how comically underpaid minor league baseball players are, considering they're the lifeblood of a multi-billion dollar industry, I'd like to remind everyone of an often overlooked point about minor leaguers.

We should also point out that our Pro membership gives members access to all of our available sports — not just baseball.

It's kind of played out at this point, but the Texas A&M Aggies baseball team deserves credit for creativity with this one.

To go back to that Koskie tweet from the eighth inning for a moment, let's just point out how hilarious it would be if MLB went back to the pre-World Series baseballs for a night just to get people to stop talking about how slick the balls are in the World Series, and the result is a 3 - 1 game where suddenly all of the awful pitchers can go back to being good enough.

The 1990 Elias Baseball Analyst points out that of the eight teams that won two thirds of their games in the last 50 years, only the 1986 Mets failed to return to the World Series within the next two seasons.

So sure, we're past the super exciting point of the winter, outside of seeing if the Rockies come to their senses and sign Mark Trumbo or Chris Carter to send baseballs into orbit on the reg.

In terms of baseball, many point to strict pitch counts as proactive prevention, but those counts are often only adhered to in games.

He pointed out, however, that none of the Park District «s other neighborhood playgrounds, baseball diamonds or soccer fields offer such amenities.

Section IV high school baseball is nearing the halfway point of the 2018 season.

It lost its baseball diamond, a point of pride for the town that fielded Puerto Rico's team in the 2017 Junior League...

After Sidney Katz, I made it a point never to play baseball again without the protection of a good athletic cup — as well as a saucer, salad plate, and place setting for six.

This «love me daddy» baseball pic that earns points for spending less than 5 percent of its time on the diamond and refusing to end in open competition... so far as the playing field is concerned.