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baseball player actors
I heard Bob Weinstein actually likened actors to baseball players. You work for a while then all of a sudden you go through a dry spell. Michael Cera
baseball baseball-caps caps
I wear a baseball cap all the time, which I would never normally wear, and I walk very fast. Michael Caine
baseball spring needs
Baseball needs to put the steroids era behind it by having and enforcing tough rules against all kinds of artificial advantages, so that spring can return. Marvin Olasky
baseball hockey player
Right now I like baseball, hockey and tennis players. And horseback riders. Martina Hingis
baseball loss games
Mr. Feld was right; life was like baseball, filled with loss and error, with bad hops and wild pitches, a game in which even champions lost almost as often as they won, and even the best hitters were put out seventy percent of the time. Michael Chabon
baseball dog kids
I smoked and looked down at the bottom of Pittsburgh for a little while, watching the kids playing tiny baseball, the distant figures of dogs snatching at a little passing car, a miniature housewife on her back porch shaking out a snippet of red rug, and I made a sudden, frightened vow never to become that small, and to devote myself to getting bigger and bigger and bigger. Michael Chabon
baseball book games
The first and last duty of the lover of the game of baseball," Peavine's book began, "whether in the stands or on the field, is the same as that of the lover of life itself: to pay attention to it. When it comes to the position of catcher, as all but fools and shortstops will freely acknowledge, this solemn requirement is doubled. Michael Chabon
baseball father boys
I like to see Quentin (Roosevelt) practicing baseball. It gives me hope that one of my boys will not take after his father in this respect, and will prove able to play the national game. Theodore Roosevelt
baseball football team
I think that when people join clubs as simple as a sorority or a fraternity, a football team, a baseball team, it's just - you want to be in a group. You want to be around people, you want to be with people. Theo Rossi
baseball fall athlete
Baseball people think they can find athletes with good bodies and teach them to play baseball. What's wrong with giving someone who already knows how to play baseball a chance? I think I fall into that category. Marcus Giles
baseball profitable
Knowin' all about baseball is just about as profitable as bein' a good whittler. Kin Hubbard
baseball team people
It is the nature of being the general manager of a baseball team that you have to remain on familiar terms with people you are continually trying to screw. Michael Lewis
baseball running home
Jacks are home runs. So are dongs, bombs, and big flies. Baseball people express their fondness for a thing by thinking up lots of different ways to say it. Michael Lewis
baseball team heart
There are several insights at the heart of the A's system that I think are wonderful for baseball. One, that it's a team game. That no one player is going to make that much of a difference to your team, so for god's sake don't go blow a quarter of your budget on one guy. Michael Lewis
baseball player television
There was but one question he left unasked, and it vibrated between his lines: if gross miscalculations of a person's value could occur on a baseball field, before a live audience of thirty thousand, and a television audience of millions more, what did that say about the measurement of performance in other lines of work? If professional baseball players could be over- or under valued, who couldn't? Michael Lewis
baseball play red
The Red Sox are the local scapegoats. It's hard enough to play baseball without being the local scapegoat too. Michael Lewis
baseball culture speak
Baseball is this intense subculture that actually doesn't speak very much for the larger culture. Michael Lewis
baseball depressing men
The sheer quantity of brain power that hurled itself voluntarily and quixotically into the search for new baseball knowledge was either exhilarating or depressing, depending on how you felt about baseball. The same intellectual resources might have cured the common cold, or put a man on Pluto. Michael Lewis
baseball volleyball eye
Some coaches believed they could judge a player's performance simply by watching it. In this they were deeply mistaken. The naked eye was an inadequate tool for learning what you needed to know to evaluate baseball players and baseball games. Think about it. One absolutely cannot tell, by watching, the difference between a .300 hitter and a .275 hitter. The difference is one hit every two weeks. The difference between a good hitter and an average hitter is simply not visible-it is a matter of record Michael Lewis
baseball tradition profit
Baseball has so much history and tradition. You can respect it, or you can exploit it for profit, but it's still being made all over the place, all the time. Michael Lewis
based fit guess information league surprised
I guess I was pretty surprised by it. The league made a decision, I guess, based on the information that we all had, but they didn't see fit to suspend Reggie. Personally, I thought he would be suspended.
baseball game great guess none opening positive sold type whether
I guess none of this is unexpected. I'm saddened by it in the sense that opening day was such a good, positive day. Every game was sold out. It was really a great baseball day. But controversy will spawn with that type of activity, whether I like it or not. Bud Selig
baseball great growing lucky time
I had a great time with baseball growing up, ... I was lucky to grow up with it and to learn. Nick Johnson
baseball behind defense good pitch throwing
I had good defense behind me and my off-speed pitch was working OK. I was throwing strikes. Brad Penny
based class pressure social
If there is a lot of social pressure to vote, we find that based on class or incomes, not based on age.
base biggest customer earnings high net worth
It has the biggest customer base (in China) and has most of the high net worth customers. It is a long-term earnings story.
base bit helps knowing last played team type year
It helps us out, knowing that we played them last year. We can base a little bit on last year ? some of their players, their type of team and stuff.
baseball helps lay tougher week
It helps tremendously. The only sport that probably won't get out this week is tennis. There is only so much you can do inside. Baseball has it tougher than softball, they can't even lay out an infield.
baseball group importance players realize type understand winning
I think a group of players has to understand the type of baseball you have to play to play winning baseball. You have to realize the importance of the intangibles, the little things.
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I tend to be a little more big-picture-oriented. She can touch those other bases in the community and get that feedback. She brings skills and personality traits and perspectives to this office that I certainly don?t have.
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I think our customer base likes to support local products. It is a good product, my family uses it.
base client nature respectful
I think our client base is of a respectful nature. We have had to take the keys.
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I just think it's a good idea. You could have three teams in a very small proximity from one another and which creates more interest and revenue. For baseball operations, they'd have somebody else close to play.