Sentences with phrase «with baseball as»

For those of you not as obsessed with baseball as I am, this is a good thing for Microsoft, Apple and us.

Yet handwringing about how the U.S. does on international tests contends with baseball as a national pastime.

With baseball as the only game in town right now (we can only handle so much of NBA free agency and NFL training camps that seem like it's never coming), you need to rep your team with Fan Bands.

Not exact matches

However, despite public fear and criticism of Steinbrenner's controversial decisions, eventually he led the team to an amazing comeback, with six World Series entries between 1996 and 2003, and a record as one of the most profitable teams in Major League Baseball.

As in baseball, our «player» typically will stay with our organization for roughly five years.

Plus, the Eon Sports team is already working on expanding the football simulations to work with augmented reality devices, as well as developing a baseball VR simulation for consumers and teams.

There's not much Major League Baseball can do to compete with the weather, but if they continue to reschedule games at such a high rate, teams might have to begin to find some creative solutions as schedules tighten later in the season.

The company is on a tear: It's struck marketing mega-deals with Major League Baseball, Major League Soccer, NASCAR and UFC, as well as an exclusive partnership with ESPN.

Twitter is betting that it can become a place for live video streams of all kinds, including sporting events like soccer and baseball, as well as news events like the Grammy Awards and the election campaign, where it partnered with a number of broadcasters to stream their coverage.

A few years earlier on the speaking circuit, she had been at yet another dinner event, feeling a bit overwhelmed as a young Asian woman in a sea of suits, when she spotted another misfit — a middle - aged man in cargo pants, with wildish hair tucked under a sideways baseball cap.

While Manziel, as a Heisman winner, had a legendary college career, his on - field achievements are as yet nothing compared with Jackson's, who had several eye - popping seasons in both the NFL and Major League Baseball.

Called Watch, the feature will include short programs along with live events such as Major League Baseball games, the company announced Wednesday.

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Trying to compare the relative merits of entire countries as expat destinations is kind of like cracking peanuts with a baseball bat.

The Brooklyn Excelsiors initial wore the baseball cap as we know that today along with introduced being part of the state run uniform through the 1849 season.

We talked, as baseball people do, of the past: He told me how much he'd enjoyed competing against Frank and Brooks Robinson of my Orioles, and he loved the story of how Baltimore fans bombarded showboating Reggie Jackson with hot dogs dispensed from the upper deck when Reggie played his first game in Memorial Stadium after abandoning Baltimore for the fleshpots of New York and the overbearing Yankees.

«Jews and Baseball» blends interviews with rabbis, academics, authors and collectors of memorabilia with such celebrities as film director Ron Howard and former CNN talk show host Larry King.

And then there is that extended British family of children's games from which baseball drew its basic morphology (stoolball, tut - ball, and, of course, rounders); but these are only charming finger - paint renderings of the ideal, vague, and glittering dreams that the infant soul brings with it in its descent from the world above before the oblivion of adulthood purges them from memory; they are as inchoately remote from the real thing as a child's first steps are from ballet.

But there are families of language - games just as softball, Little League baseball, and professional baseball have similar rules with a few significant differences.

A burger may seem as American as baseball and apple pie, but one Canadian burger chain plans to carefully crack the U.S. market with its particular brand that emphasizes sustainability.

Moving forward, Tom + Chee hope to partner with more alternative venues, such as aquariums, movie theaters, food courts, baseball parks and airports.

As the kids grew, the pancakes changed shapes from zoo animals to dinosaurs to sports heros (picture stick figures with blobs of batter for baseball hats or basketballs.

If you're as big a fan of my Paleo Chocolate Cupcakes as the Boulder High Freshman Baseball Team, you'll love them topped with my luscious Peanut Butter Frosting.

Entertainment Abounds While there are nearly two dozen activity options as part of the package, with everything from surf lessons to museums to professional baseball to trampoline and skate parks, I customized an action - packed itinerary that I knew would captivate my own family's imaginations and sense of adventure — one I felt exemplified the grandeur of the «Center of SoCal» package.

As the years rolled on, I found myself sticking around to watch baseball games with my brother, homework in hand of course.

With an unproven baseball washout at QB (Weeden, who turns 28 in October, spent five years in the minors as a pitcher) and no clear No. 1 receiver last summer, Oklahoma State was tabbed for a fifth - place finish in the Big 12 South, allowing them to catch early opponents off guard.

And if you think this is all concern trolling, note that both FanGraphs and Baseball Prospectus have the Diamondbacks at comfortably under.500, with FanGraphs giving them the exact same record as 2015.

I am a huge sports fan.I love nfl and college football i never get enough of it.I am a big soccer [the other football] fanatic.I like basketball, hockey, some baseball and rugby.I am a big jersey buyer i have a lot of jerseys mostly of american football and soccer.I love the strategy of football i think it is fascinating.I have been a falcons fan since 1990 when the went to all black helmets and jerseys i was a fan because of that and because of primetime deion sanders.I have been a falcons fan through thick and thin win or lose they are my team regardless of how they do.I hope to one day visit Atlanta and see them play at home in Georgia.I hope to one day see them bring back black jerseys as the home colors.I am still a fan of the run n shoot offense i truly believe it can work in the nfl if ran and merged with some two back formations and a one back three wide one tight end formation.

It's that stray what if in the back of every GM's mind, as he knows that extensions usually aren't handed out for having the most efficient WAR / $ ranking in baseball, but that pink slips might be coming if the stupid bullpen blows another stupid lead that ends up with another stupid loss.

According to Major League Baseball, the standings at the start of Tuesday featured as much parity as we've had since 1995, with 18 teams within at least five games of a postseason berth.

Baseball - Reference doesn't have the pitch counts of all his minor league starts, with gaps during his time in the California League, but as far as we can tell, his 51 pitches were a career high.

Most teams will be forced to expose a lot of high - priced players in the expansion draft — as baseball teams did in the major league expansion draft last year — and the Bottles and the Cakes, with decent coaching, should win some games early.

But just eyeballing it, it looks like the Giants gave up about as much talent as any team in baseball, with Matt Duffy and his five years of team control going for the enigmatic Matt Moore, along with a high - profile international free agent from last year and a projectable, hard - throwing right - hander.

As each round is only three games long for each team with a tiebreaker if necessary, starting out 1 - 0 is significant: that and a win in Friday night's head - to - head contest could be enough to propel one of these two teams to the World Baseball Classic semifinals.

At 37, baseball's greatest practicing slugger is running through his new repertoire — as a latter - day Eddie Stanky — with predictable aplomb.

Especially if one day 42 years later an old Texan like Flop Parsons would put his feet on the desk in his dusty Alpine real estate office and declare with authority, «Back in the early»50s, semipro baseball in Alpine, Texas, was raised as high as you can get.»

In his 19 years as the head baseball coach at Buchanan High in Clovis, Tom Donald has become familiar with perfection.

Baseball as the national pastime was taken with the utmost seriousness, so that having a team that was best in the region or the state was an exciting proposition — like having an extra portion of the American Dream dished out to your hometown.

Hardcore baseball fans may remember the case from when it was first in the news, but with all the new information that the documentary looks to provide it will be a good watch for those new to the case as well as those who are already familiar with what happened.

as they fell further behind the Brewers in the NL Central, having replaced one of their best players with perhaps the worst player in baseball.

But you're going to have to accept that others have differing opinions even as they, too, enjoy and are entertained by the moments that make for highlight clips, and these differences, unless clearly presented otherwise, have everything to do with baseball, and are not because there's an animus against his ethnicity.

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).

It's perfectly fine if this is the end: A-Rod is one of the greatest players in baseball history, a lightning rod in the industry well before PEDs ever came up, and he did his time when he was caught with them, anyway — well, when MLB obstructed a federal investigation to make sure he was caught with them so Bud Selig could use his last year as commissioner as a victory lap, but who remembers such unimportant details?

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

Schilling started feuding with Williams, the Phillies» erratic reliever, over Williams's difficulty throwing strikes.Well, Williams was traded to the Houston Astros in the off - season, and Kruk got testicular cancer, and Schilling opened the next season miserably and then had elbow surgery, and Hollins got hurt, and then... and then, as we all know, baseball temporarily ceased to exist.

After a sombermeeting with Jim Adenhart, Nick's father, in their clubhouse that afternoon, the Angels vowed to use baseball as their sanctuary.

Even though Scully was the voice describing Hank Aaron's 715th home run, Kirk Gibson's hobbled homer, and The Catch, and we can all rally around those highlights as shared moments together, we aren't part of the select few, the 3 to 5 percent of baseball fans who got to spend their entire baseball lives with him.

Like, he didn't hit the player with the baseball swing, and that gets interpreted as him being in control and deliberately missing, so no discipline.

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.