Sentences with phrase «time at the baseball»

We are the same way — love our time at the baseball fields, time to slow down and take in every awesome moment.

Not exact matches

If you're a baseball fan, you know C.J. Wilson: During his 11 - year MLB career with the Texas Rangers and Anaheim Angels he recorded 94 wins, 52 saves — yep, at different times he was a starter and a reliever — and posted a 3.74 lifetime ERA.

It is something else to blindly hope that four good teams all start playing losing baseball at the same time.

With baseball season opening, it's time to take a look at the homes owned or recently sold by 10 current or ex-major leaguers.

At many companies, men already take «invisible leave» to spend time with their children — they might take an afternoon off to take the kids to their baseball game, for example, while allowing their employer and co-workers to think they're meeting clients.

Richelieu: At this point in time, we might see [with the NHL] what happened in baseball, after 1994 - 95.

This time, the rampage happened at a high school in Broward County, Florida, but no place is safe — not baseball fields or movie theaters or concerts or even churches.

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.

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....

At least in the baseball game there is entertainment value... the church has lost it's entertainment value just under 6000 years ago except for the times they massacred or indoctrinated entire civilizations in the new world....

Studs Terkel tells about the time he attended a baseball game at Wrigley Field when he saw Ron Santo strike out.

@joe the baseball belong to the victim at the time of the attack.

Who has time for meditating at work when there are football fantasies, bowl (and football and basketball and baseball) pools, golf leagues, fitness centers, video games and coffee breaks to get finished before the end of the day!!!

Joe is a snuggly boy at the best of times and when he is sick or tired, he is a clinging monkey desperate to be held, twisting my hair around his baseball mitt of a hand.

I only watch baseball if the Cubs are involved in an important game, which means I go years at a time without watching baseball.

The «friends» look like baseball bats - I know they are exclamation points, but the way they treated Job, and the way we're treated at times, resemble a verbal beating, like with a baseball bat.

Kershaw is roughly the equivalent of one of the greatest closers in baseball history, stretched out for seven or eight innings at a time, unless you get him for the full nine innings.

Also, because I can never get enough of this, here's a Baseball America article that reports on Arenado's defensive future, which wasn't very bright at the time:

At the same time, the Cubs, being the best team in baseball, just won the pennant, something they haven't done in 71 seasons.

Pete Rose is the all - time leader for hits in Major League Baseball history, and that's indisputable, but what Ichiro did, spanning two decades and two countries, in an era of LOOGYs and power closers, while performing at a high level and not writing himself into the lineup, just might be more impressive.

To have this type of incident happen at any time or place in baseball is unacceptable, but to have it happen on as big a stage as the World Series should have the league even more concerned and diligent about recourse.

And yet, people still search for «baseball draft grades» the day after, so I need to find a way to feed the Google beast and amuse myself at the same time.

You have to hand it to Alderson and the Athletics, and at times baseball appears to be doing just that.

Vincent assured the owners that he would not interfere with the work of the PRC, but at the same time, he said he had no intention of signing away the powers that permit him to act in the «best interests of baseball.»

For aguy who had been a walk - on at Cal State — Fullerton, laced a pinch - hit singleduring the 2007 College World Series, caught Giants ace Tim Lincecum in theCape Cod League and was coaching a youth team in Pasadena at the time of thecrash, throwing a baseball was the ultimate sign of progress.

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.

Perhaps next year at this time we may be fortunate enough to have Jim publish a journal on baseball as it is lived and played in Kyoto or Florence.

Some of them may try to hide when they see him coming, but there are probably only a handful of major leaguers in uniform who haven't seen the Clown Prince of Baseball at one time or another.

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.

At one time, there were about a dozen baseball clowns.

This is not the first time that baseball has bent their own rules a little bit so that Rose could be honored, or, at least, so Rose could show up somewhere.

That written, it's time to look at the holes every team still has around baseball, along with the ability of the team to fix the problem this late in the offseason.

While it's possible, if not likely, that the Gallo story has at least one more detour in the minors, this is the perfect time for Rangers fans to ask one of the very best baseball questions: What if?

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.

Baseball might have peaked because never before or since has it been more entertaining, more skillful, more surprising, more cruel and more hilarious all at the same time.

Today was Opening Day for Minor League baseball, which means this was the first time Tim Tebow had a professional at - bat.

It wouldn't be the last time he'd play baseball in North America, as the Cubs signed him to a minor - league deal where he was a player - coach back in 2014, and then he went on to play in the Dominican Winter League where he batted.313 /.409 /.510 at the age of 42.

If the principal, though, thinks that only football and baseball are important — as was true at one school I worked at long ago — then over time, only those two programs are likely to thrive.

About a year ago at this time, baseball fans and media personalities alike had a case of Correa fever.

From school teams to select teams to all - star teams, many players end up playing baseball or softball year - round without getting any rest, sometimes on two or more teams at the same time.

Now you're the current you, reading a baseball story on one of 30 dozen outlets that you can access at any time.

Then again, these momentum things aren't exactly a science and baseball is weird enough at the best of times, so I'm just going to sit back and enjoy and not worry about those kinds of things.

Time for postseason baseball again at Jacobs Field?

Assembling a quintet of baseball's most promising shortstops for a shoot at Miami Beach's Big Time Studio on Feb. 9, 1997, was a logistical triumph for former SI photo editor Maureen Cavanagh.

At the time they were baseball's golden boys, 22 and 21, respectively, and the best of friends.

It was fitting that Deion Sanders — Prime Time, Hall of Fame cornerback and a star who dabbled in football, baseball and music long before Newton dabbed at all — asked Newton several questions about his persona and place.

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.

There was the faith that Orioles owner Peter Angelos showed in him when he overruled all of his baseball men at the time — manager Johnny Oates, general manager Roland Hemond and assistant general managers Doug Melvin and Frank Robinson — and pursued Palmeiro rather than Clark.

At times it is also his inspiration, for «there's much about baseball that I find poetical.»

At this time of year a major league baseball team counts itself among the blessed if it has one fuzzy - cheeked rookie worthy of serious consideration.