Quotes in 'baseball' Topic

baseball drive guy hit

They hit the baseball. They'd get a guy on and drive him in. Mentally, we weren't in the game.

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There's something about playing the game of baseball that lights up a youngster's eyes but for children facing mental and physical challenges, that opportunity can often be a difficult first test. The Miracle League gives these children the opportunity to get out in the sunshine and enjoy the game of baseball in its purest form.

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There's no real justification for public financing of stadiums. They don't generate economic benefits. They don't help revitalize neighborhoods. The economic research on this is pretty solid. The only studies that show positive effects are the ones commissioned by baseball and people who want a stadium built.

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There's no question baseball disrupts the launches of entertainment schedules, ... And beyond ratings, the most important issue for baseball is whether there's a perceived competitor to Fox. But right now I don't see a strong competitor to Fox.

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There's no possible way I'd be ready to pitch (in the World Baseball Classic). Trust me, I'd love to have the chance to represent my country, that's everyone's dream to hold the flag. But I would have had to start throwing by mid-December to be in game shape by then and I've just started to throw lightly now.

baseball close closer great lost though

There's no closer in baseball that's perfect, though we lost one (Gagne) who's as close to being one as there is. Brazoban has done a great job.

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There's no getting around it. We're at a point right now where we need to win a baseball game. There's no sugar-coating it. We've dug ourselves a deep hole.

baseball football practice running

There's no football practice tomorrow. So I'll be at baseball practice ? I think. I'm just running around everywhere.

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There's more of a baseball culture that has developed in other countries. There are quite a few countries where the baseball culture is pretty well developed.

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The town loves baseball, that's a fact. We have a lot of youngsters that are dedicated to the team and the program.

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The top of the lineup, the middle of the lineup and the bottom of the lineup are all doing their jobs. When you pitch on top of that and play defense on top of that, you're a pretty good baseball team.

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I started to fall in love with the game of baseball when my dad gave me my first set of baseball cards, ... I kept the ones I recognized. The guys I didn't were the ones I put in the spokes of my bicycle with clothes pins.

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I started out on my brother-in-law's team. He had a terrific team. He needed a sub in the summer when the guys went on vacation. Going from baseball to softball, I bent over the plate. I had never seen a riser like that under my chin. The whole team laughed at me.

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I spent nine months trying to convince him he was a baseball player.

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When you lose a couple and you didn't play your best baseball and the runs aren't coming, sometimes you might be pressing a little bit. But I thought our guys were comfortable. They were taking their hacks up there, being aggressive.

baseball best late playing rush season time

We want to make a late season rush and be playing our best baseball when that time comes.

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We want to have one last hurrah at Busch Stadium with the best fans in baseball. The weekend will be filled with heartfelt tributes to the most memorable athletes, coaches, broadcasters and plays that have made Cardinals baseball the tradition that it is today.

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What Cuba has shown to the world is not only that we could play up to par with other major leaguers. We are not professional, we are amateur. We don't get paid for doing this. We deserve a high place in baseball because we do this with sacrifice, with human value and courage and sportsmanship, and because we give our utmost in order to come to the field and show what good baseball is all about.

baseball bigger issue opening tend

We tend to make a bigger issue out of opening day.

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We chartered a couple times in my career, but we go commercial most of the time when we fly, and we try to bus as much as we can. It's hard to move a baseball team commercially.

baseball believe good guys lift played season supposed time

This is the time of the season when you're supposed to play baseball, and you're supposed to lift yourself up a little bit. We did not do that today. We played two really good teams, and we have to find a way to make these guys believe that we can play with them.