Sentences with phrase «take the pitch with»

It's a separate problem, one that rests with AW, that our players don't take the pitch with a dominating and winning attitude (a la fergie's teams).

Not exact matches

Along with Harris, the two pitched the idea of a standalone political news and commentary site to the Washington Post in 2006 but were ultimately disillusioned with the response, so they took the idea to Allbritton — and eventually hired more than a few senior reporters and editors away from both the Washington Post and other newspapers.

So, there's a tremendous amount of standard business wisdom about how you need to have an elevator pitch, a small nugget that will encapsulate what it is you do with the amount of time it takes to pitch your business to a theoretical once - in - a-lifetime investor in a chance elevator encounter.

In The Circle, Eggers doesn't so much take his best swing at technology as ignore its pitches entirely and chase after it with his bat.

If you aren't the owner or haven't been tasked by management to come up with some new marketing solutions, now's the time to take all you've learned, compile it into a robust pitch and get the buy - in you need.

It will take some time to perfect the message, but when it's honed in just right, it will provide you with a much more effective marketing pitch.

«You have to know what you're going for, and do it with your eyes wide open,» says Francisco Dao, founder and president of The Killer Pitch, a firm based in Tarzana, California, that helps companies and entrepreneurs refine their message, and former business coach and columnist for Inc. «Look at yourself in the mirror and ask yourself what it's going to take to achieve your goals.»

So take a quick tour across North America with the pitches below — and if all the persuasion wears you out, check out Little Rock's video rejection letter at the end.

• We've taken a deeper dive on OLED laptops before, but in short, the X1 Yoga's 14 - inch screen is tremendous, with pitch blacks and lush colors.

Now that you've taken a closer look at the Airbnb pitch deck, you hopefully feel significantly more informed about why the service it provides has become so popular with travel enthusiasts and people who are simply looking for alternatives to hotel rooms.

«It probably took two months of my life away, just answering phone calls,» recalls co-founder and president Jamie Bailey, who pitched the Dragons with his wife, Trudie Wiseman.

If you're handling it yourself, budget for the time it will take to do things like keeping your website active with fresh blog posts once or twice a week, posting content on social media and developing pitches to get print, radio or TV interested.

While it may take some digging — and some creative pitching — you may be able to find a mutually beneficial relationship with an established partner.

«Don't try to take too many people with you when you make your pitch.

With its new business, Goldman will take a very different approach, offering the types of loans that are traditionally pitched through mailing blasts to American homes.

With the three - run lead, Trent Sobolewski pitched a scoreless sixth and Thomas took the Titans (17 - 2) down in order in the seventh for the save.

You are correct that I, ``... don't have to swing at every pitch,» but I have found that remaining consistent with my buys (making at least one buy every month) helps take some of the guesswork out of trying to time the market and find the best possible time to invest.

Not only must you give a prospect a reason to listen to your pitch, you must give them a reason to take the action of setting a meeting with you.

These days, a growing number of businesses take to YouTube to deliver their business pitch and some angel investors have taken to reviewing some of the YouTube pitches before scheduling a face - to - face meeting with an entrepreneur.

You will be making connections and collaborating with an international network of entrepreneurs and classmates, learning strategies that will help you take your pitch or deal to the next level.

Afterwards, you can ask pitching startups questions, network with other members of the betahaus» coworking community, and take a tour through our space *.

The winning darden virginia investing challenge team: congrats to csima members sisy wang, Brendan dawson, and aaron purcell for taking home first prize with their solarcity short pitch

Taking the modern use of a «pitch man» or «face» to associate a religion with is BEYOND IDIOTIC.

Third, a sales pitch under these conditions is more likely than not to make the experience for the «buyer» rather negative, and any person with common sense will tell you that a negative experience takes multiple positive experiences just to make up for the one negative.

Murray, who is one of the owners of the team, attended the final game at Midway Stadium, not only assisting at turnstiles and talking with fans, but also throwing out the first pitch and taking plenty of selfies with his new friends.

It is too difficult to give up everything, and so we take the easy way out, and leave things the way they are, or at least sift through the hay - stack of our beliefs with a needle, when we need a pitch - fork or a fork - lift.

The pitch to join al Qaeda did not start with an invitation to put on a suicide vest but, like other religious splinter groups and cults, took advantage of disenfranchisement and poverty.

Previous to this reversal, the hot takes were mostly about how Strasburg's refusal to pitch (if that's what it was) was a slap in the face to his teammates (unless they understood) and how the postseason was where Curt Schilling bled for your sins and Kirk Gibson didn't need to be ambulatory to slay his mustachioed dragon (unless, stay with me here, this situation was somehow unique and deserved to be treated as such).

Another theory: When Wenger first arrived, (At his more successful period at the club), His only job was to deal with his team and tactics, finding Gems etc, but as the year's went by, he took on more responsibilities at the club (more work) taking the club to the next level, (financial wise) and maybe that could be the reason for his downfall in where it matters the most for the fan's... On the pitch!

I actually thought he played well when he came in, got to wonder he seemed to get on well with sanchez on and off the pitch is this why wenget didn't take to him?

we've been patient with these guys and others for a very long time now and there seems to be no improvement on the pitch of play... fans have always listed players they believe are not good to take the club to the next height but Mr potato head will continue to have faith till those guys retire from football without achieving anything for themselves.

Teams take mascots out onto the pitch with them, ensuring that (a) a few youngsters have excellent anecdotes with which to impress their peers, and (b) any animosity between the players has to be suspended until the little ones are out of the way.

Granted, he is a good signing, but he is not our most vital one and with our budget, I'd prefer Chelsea to take him than us end up benching good players while having a crisis elsewhere on the pitch.

There are ups and downs in football, you have to take it with a pinch of salt and all you can do is respond with your performances on the pitch, like that.

Of course we can only have 11 players on the pitch at any time but it is good to know that almost any of them are capable of popping up with a goal and maybe that is taking the pressure off our specialist strikers.

but, im ok with this vardy transfer... it shows us many things: 1) wenger is changing, something some of us have been demanding for a long time; 2) it shows that wenger is taking risks: think about it, he is buying a men for a not cheap price, knowing he could not getting anything after, with a future sell i mean... this is an act that shows wengers intentions to win something, the buy is not motivated by any financial or economic reason but only for a «get the f epl once again» reason... this is an act that shows us hungry, even if we fail, we could said we try... first ever, we really try; 3) finally but very important... vardy is the kind of player we need... he is a warrior, a fighter... he has character... look at how he celebrate his goals... full of energy... he, like alexis, can motivate the team when the things are not going in our way (something wenger cant do because of his age and because he has never been an active coach on the pitch)... the vardy transfer, if it finish well, is a demostration of a change, and a good one... lets take care of winning things and do nt look the economic side for once... vardy is a bit old, but we can give a chance to welbeck after maybe, or akpom... u are not thinking about the future when we talk about ibra... guys: u complain when wenger do nt spend or because he is always looking for the bargain when u are the guys who has to pay the very expensive tickets... u complain when wenger buy the always for the future guy... like morata... stop to complain for everything and be consequent with yourself... i would love auba, but it is not going to happen... lukaku is awesome but the asking price is stupid... lets try with vardy, give us the throphy..

It's a horrific thought that it took a little girl getting hit in the face with a 105 - mph pitch for teams to reconsider how much protection they provide fans — especially for teams like the Padres, who had a fan injured at their own park earlier this season — but it is also unrealistic to assume the league would be publicly urging this reassessment right now without that accident happening.

Still, Calhanoglu's sublime effort is a reminder of the threat Milan pose in most areas of the pitch, with Gennaro Gattuso's side in largely fine form since he took over despite the recent setback against Arsenal.

The Black Cats will not be looking forward to taking on the Gunners today, having already endured relegation, and with their fans having booed their players off the pitch at half - time in their previous match.

The reason Nasri and RVP did so well was because they played with confidence and didn't always follow the manager's passing instructions, you would see them dribble past players to create goals and show their discontent with the team when we played badly, we haven't seen that for the past 5 years, it's like the manager doesn't want players to take command of a game and that would explain why we never have any leaders on the pitch.

Atleast all our players would have had to know every other players style on the pitch of play not in the training ground, i used to say akb but honestly wenger is not acting like the acronym, something has to happen the man has got to wake up or step down, but im scared of change cos it is like a gamble, a new coach with a new philosophy and style, it might take time to adapt and that time would be enough for other teams to step up thus demoralsing the club, both fans and board, wouldn't like us to do a porchettino, look at Liverpool, if its gona be a new coach its got ta be one of em arsenal ol boys, who knows what it is like to be called a gooner, that's just my thought on this matter,

American League took on familiar look as New York Yankees, with airtight pitching from vets Don Larsen, Johnny Kucks, Whitey Ford and Bob Turley, won five out of six from Boston and Baltimore, assumed expected perch at top of standings.

The fact that you take Gibbs as an example makes everything you say jut a pile of french frog poo, and you know it, same with Wilshere, like he was playing for Arsenal ever knowing that he spend more time at the bench than in the pitch, Giroud is also a stupid example knowing that we had no other striker besides him for years

As with batting in baseball, being a good conference commissioner requires you to be able to take pitches.

Also the new guy with Jesse felt rough, can't find his name (did like the fact he drove in from Ottawa with his mother), and really hated in 6th that it took a while to find out if Diaz was still pitching.

Houston's 3 — 1 start was triggered by the top gun in Penders's four - juco - player recruiting class, junior two guard Oliver Lafayette, whom the coach lured from Brown - Mackie College in Kansas with this pitch: «If you're afraid to take 20 shots a game, don't come here.»

So Mel Harder looked at some old movies taken when I was with the Giants, then watched me pitch a few minutes and put his finger right on it.

For example, Newcombe may get a batter out with a fast ball right across the letters, but I could never get the same man out with the same pitch because my fast ball doesn't take off like Newk's.

Last season Leicester defended set pieces with Mahrez and Vardy up the pitch — that was the risk they took but it paid as they counter attack quicker.

The matter relates back to an incident at the start of last season during a game against Swansea City at Stamford Bridge, with the Chelsea doctor and head physio Jon Fearn taking to the pitch to treat Eden Hazard which in turn led to a furious reaction from Mourinho on the sidelines.