Chris Nelson
Chris Nelson
Christopher Lars Nelsonis an American professional baseball infielder who is in the Colorado Rockies organization. Nelson has played in Major League Baseballfor the Colorado Rockies from 2010 through 2013, New York Yankees in 2013, the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim in 2013 and the San Diego Padres in 2014...
ProfessionBaseball Player
Date of Birth3 September 1985
CityEscondido, CA
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I'm over all that sort of stuff and I'm so glad I am. I feel so much better and spring training was so much better this year. I'll try to do the same things I tried last year, just work hard. I have the tools. I just got to try to use them.
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I've been expecting to get a few minutes every game in the playoffs so I'm just playing my role pretty much, doing whatever I can for the team. Take the open shot but that's pretty much it.
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As the relative wealth of a nation grows, the percentage of manufactured foods increases . . . because people want more convenience. You are seeing some of that in Brazil.
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The 1980s was the last decade of large suburban expansion. The '90s were a re-sorting era, with the central city gaining population after decades of decline. Now we're in a decade trending toward a fairly large-scale re-sorting of the housing market away from the far reaches of suburbia.
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That's the way we've been all year. Every time someone scores on us, we score right back.
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We jumped ahead early and then turned it over to the defense. I was pleased with the energy the team had. The key to our success is energy and focus. In the victory, we had both.
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Basically I want to come in first place. I haven't sat down and looked at numbers. It's too easy to get caught up in that. I just go out and play hard everyday.
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Since it has been such a roller coaster, this moment definitely feels really good. It doesn't get much better than helping your team win a big game. I'm going to savor it for a long time.
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Now that we're centrally located on campus, we can reach out and serve students better. We're changing as Iowa State adapts.
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It's easy to get excited and just give them what they want. But you have to remember, if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is. We went on the Internet and there are all these stories about people who gave their account information out and then all kinds of money was taken. It's just a shame that there are people out here who would do people that way.
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I try not to think about all of that and put it behind, but I can't deny this has been a season of major ups and downs for me,
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We want to push on with the issues that came up in the campaign.
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The rate of animal feed growth has just been incredible down here. The Brazilians are every bit as sophisticated as a U.S. producer, and in some ways, even more sophisticated.
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We didn't score in the first game so we were going to be aggressive this time.