Joe Nathan
Joe Nathan
Joseph Michael "Joe" Nathanis an American professional baseball pitcher for the Chicago Cubs of Major League Baseball. Nathan started out his baseball career as a shortstop in high school and while at Stony Brook University, but converted to a pitcher after being drafted by the San Francisco Giants. He worked his way through the minor leagues, alternating between spots in the rotation and the bullpen. After a few years of splitting time between the majors and the minors, Nathan had...
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It's really nice to get out there the next day. You don't want to be sitting down there thinking about it any longer than you have to.
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I've had superintendents tell me 'Joe, you're right. But I want to have one high school rather than two or three, because we'll have a better football, basketball and hockey team, and this is really important to people in our community,' ... So one of the things is, how does the community feel about sports? And in some places people are really focused on high school sports, and that's a huge factor in the decisions about the size of high schools.
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I wanted to keep them from scoring on Johan as best I could, knowing what's at stake for him being in the Cy Young race, ... He could use as many scoreless innings as you could get for him.
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That's out of his control. Hopefully the other numbers prove to be stronger.
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Every time IBM sells a product that uses our technology, it damages us. That will come out at the trial,
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Every game is huge right now, especially for us. We're the ones chasing. It's almost like we have to win when they win and we have to win when they lose. It doesn't leave us too much room for error.
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They go hand and hand. That's one of the good things ? I'll be able to stay on the same schedule there as I would here anyway.
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There's broad frustration and even antagonism out there. Americans perceive unions as people who put the interests of their members first. They don't feel the unions pay enough concern to getting rid of ineffective teachers. They see unions as challenging and often trying to stop school reform.
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At least top three. A lot of times wins are out of your control, so all he can do is try to finish off strong with his last three (starts) and get his win total up a little bit and hopefully his other numbers are strong enough to persuade some people to go that route.
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They were loud. Every pitch, every strike, they got louder and louder. I wish it could be like that all season. I wish they'd come back.
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Somebody said, 'Hey, let's grow beards.' OK, let's do it. I guess it doesn't take much for us to go with it. It's something fun for us.
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It was almost worse. It's like this feeling that you just let a whole lot of people down. I know for myself, I don't want to feel that way again.
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Sounds awesome. He's going to do nothing but help us, and hopefully he'll get back to his old form. Hopefully it'll be like the Shannon Stewart trade.
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Obviously, we've got a lot of work to do. But if we lose this series, we're basically out of it. To win this series shows we're still in it and shows we've still got some fight left in us.