Sentences with phrase «take on baseball»

March 20th - RBI Baseball 18 (Xbox One, Playstation 4, Nintendo Switch, PC) Developed entirely by MLB this time, the arcade take on Baseball returns once again with many improvements.

Players mostly liked it, concluding that Mario's first take on baseball was less of a grand slam and more of an inside - the - park homerun (which is still pretty good).

One is a meteoric take on baseball and the other is a race to chop down the most wood without getting hurt by obstacles.

I'm obsessed with men's - style tops, like this take on a baseball tee.

Not exact matches

A team including Roderick Swaab, a professor at European business school INSEAD, and Adam D. Galinsky of Columbia recently took the action on the pitch as inspiration and decided to examine how adding more superstars to the mix affected football (aka soccer), basketball, and baseball teams.

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

The Mormon then takes the crap pieces from the toilet and studies them in a special baseball cap made of yak pubes, and quotes the text from the crap pieces to another who writes them down on legal note pads.

He took particular note of scenes of cheering crowds: flag - wavers in Times Square and at Ground Zero in New York City, baseball fans in Philadelphia, patriots in Boston, enthusiastic students on....

As a former High School and college baseball umpire who volunteered many years as a Little League umpire and has been teaching new umpires in youth baseball now for twenty years AND a Roman Catholic I was thoroughly amused by Mr. Prothero's take on the Series game ending Obstruction call and his big picture analogy from the Vatican.

She thinks he should take his son, Jabar, to church on Sunday, and he wants to take Jabar to a baseball game.

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.

So far we've been expert tourists in San Antonio, we've cheered on the Spurs, we hit the rodeo, we took in some Aggie baseball, and now we're heading north for a little zoo and museum action.

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.

Even now, with baseball forced to allow in - market broadcasts on MLB.tv, it's still taking a year to hash out the details.

The Japanese have long been big on such Western sports as baseball, golf, bowling and even horse racing (for the past couple of years they have been top bidders at thoroughbred sales in the U.S. and Britain), but now they may have gone one step too far toward sports insanity: they have taken up baton twirling.

«They made me put on these earphones and take this test, all sorts of questions on it, math, other stuff, nothing to do with baseball,» Robinson said.

SOCCER — FRENCH, who take their Le Football as seriously as most Americans do baseball, were shocked by spectacular and guileful «disappearance» of 12 of nation's most famous Algerian footballeurs, including four international stars, on eve of match with Switzerland (which ended in 0 - 0 draw).

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.

Here we have one of the worst hitters in baseball history, a symbol of the post-Mays era, a player who was booed so much by San Francisco fans that he once took the field with «BOO» stitched on the back of his jersey, and one of my favorite players as an adolescent.

On the more serious side, he took an active role in the Indians» chapter of the Baseball Chapel, which he calls «one of the neatest things around.»

Puerto Rico is one of the two teams in the World Baseball Classic championship game, as they'll take on the United States Wednesday night.

And even if evidence proves that Belle did not bet on his own sport, baseball must take his gambling seriously.

When he stands in the first or third base box, yelling, sleeping, blowing kisses, spraying water, there is an actual baseball game going on, and some managers — Gene Mauch and the late Paul Richards, for instance — tried at various times to keep Max from taking the field.

He feels that Spain, already showing signs of interest, would take up baseball on a broader scale, though it won't ever rival bullfighting.

The record may be misleading since most contrarian plays in baseball are on the underdog, and taking moneyline «dogs means that you can achieve profits despite a losing record.

As a pitcher on the baseball team he has been a disappointment, barely worth the effort it took to sign him to a scholarship in the spring of 1974.

A few seconds past 2:30 p.m. this Monday afternoon in Crosley Field in Cincinnati a young man — named Fowler, perhaps, or Nuxhall, or maybe Valentine or Baczewski or Podbielan — dressed in cleated shoes, flannel knickers, a peaked cap and a shirt bearing a scarlet letter «C» over the left breast, will stand for a moment on a low, hard - packed mound of dirt in the middle of a green square of grass, take a deep breath and then, with a violent twisting of his body, throw a baseball.

One of the most appealing aspects of Angell's reporting is the air of seeming innocence he takes with him when he talks to baseball people, whether it be in a World Series locker room or on a lazy spring afternoon at a training camp in Arizona or Florida.

The Pelicans, who in their first year of play in 1870, as amateurs, lost to the Cincinnati Red Stockings 51 - 1, in 1887 issued first rain check in professional baseball (existing custom had been to take a fan's word for it that he had suffered from a rain - out), stoutly continued to play during raging yellow fever epidemic of 1905, stumbled on even when their home park was sold out from under them for a motel site in 1958.

Betting on baseball can be a long grind, especially when you're constantly taking moneyline underdogs throughout a 162 - game regular season.

That means that some poor sap on the Mets would take a baseball to the butt because six months ago, his teammate talked about doing something that isn't out of the ordinary and then actually did it.

Baseball purists argue that there's an unfair advantage based on ballpark since American League pitchers don't take batting practice and National League team's rarely have the bench depth to install an above average designated hitter.

To be sure, he didn't go into everything — how he'd take lunch money off schoolmates in Bessemer, Ala. and lend it back to them, with interest; how he'd pay one kid to beat up on another; how he hit a cousin, a girl, with a baseball bat when she tried to take away a Ping - Pong paddle; or how he helped stone to death a local minister's pig.

Last spring he gave up baseball to concentrate on track, but quit at midseason, partly because his best time in the 100 meters, a 10.39 at the Florida Relays in March, wasn't good enough to qualify him for the Olympic trials, and partly because the demands of being a Heisman hopeful — interviews, addressing school kids and the like — took up too much time.

The Braves are a cheaper team that needed help on both offense & pitching and guessed wrong on players, in baseball that is all it takes to get bad.

By the 1890's several thousand Cubans had fled to the Dominican Republic, on the neighboring island of Hispaniola, taking along expertise in farming sugarcane and playing baseball.

On his way home from Ann Arbor, he talked in the car about baseball, about how much he wanted to bring a minor league team to Fort Wayne, about business ventures he wants to get into and about how wonderful it is to be free again and how a man can take for granted all the small, surpassing pleasures in life until prison takes them away.

Best of all, when Dreifort's on, he has one of the most unhittable pitches in baseball, a two - seam sinkerball that travels 90 - plus and takes a strange, twisting dive as it crosses the front edge of the plate.

If you think they are giving up on analytics, please take a deep breath and explain why you think this, other than that it's the end of February and you aren't quite sure what else to yell about while there's no real baseball to distract you.

On a porch swing in the outfield of a baseball game, so that you can simultaneously take your Masters Nap while also taking a mid-afternoon baseball nap

REALISTIC TAKE ON A LEGEND Jonathan Eig's Opening Day casts the breaking of baseball's color barrier in a new light, depicting Jackie Robinson as more fiery and Dodgers players as less supportive than popularly thought.

I think the guy that goes out and plays baseball or that goes out and is part of a state championship basketball team, and maybe isn't out there doing seven - on - sevens the entire offseason, maybe isn't working with the quarterbacks coach: I'll take that guy.

The Sox have already shown a willingness to take this kind of lump sum financial risk on an international player before when they won the negotiating rights to Daisuke Matsuzaka before 2007, a move that saw them write a $ 51.1 million check to the Seibu Lions of Nippon Professional Baseball just for the right to pay Dice - K.

So Murtaugh patted Law on the shoulder, took the baseball from his hand and called in ElRoy Face.

it pretty much means that just about every other team in baseball had a shot to take the players on the right as well and did not... so it's not like the Braves are making some egregious errors.

Take the following statistics for example from the NCAA: Only 5.6 percent of all high school baseball players and 2.9 percent of all high school basketball players will go on to play collegiately.

Clayton Valley Charter High School Baseball Camps take place at the high school on June 18 - 21 - 8:30 am to 12:30 pm and June 25 - 28 - 8:30 am to 12:30 pm.

Oklahoma Baseball travels to Tulsa today to take on Oral Roberts.

Golf might take the spotlight today, but sharp bettors have yet to lose any focus on baseball this weekend.

The Yankees are by the biggest favorites on today's baseball board, but 72 % of bettors are still taking a shot on the Pinstripes, making them also the most popular MLB bet tonight.