John King
John King
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth30 August 1963
CountryUnited States of America
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I do not subscribe to the advocacy journalism school. It's not who I am and not who CNN wants me to be.
fails good happens people showing step telling time
We're very good at telling what happens and showing people while it happens... But sometimes television fails to take the time to say 'Why did it happen? What does it mean?' - To step back a little bit.
convinced details insight noise people thirst travels
There is a lot of noise and conflict in our political discourse, which is fun to cover, but I'm convinced from my travels that people also thirst for more details as well as insight and context.
breaks district felt fortunate good gotten runner scoring seed time
Most of the time we feel pretty good with a runner in scoring position. We felt fortunate to have gotten the No. 1 seed at district. We got some breaks there in the district tournament.
company great hurting work
I work for a place that's been great to me over the years, and when you make a mistake, you're hurting your company as well.
emphasis half home improvement landing month products second start
Newer products are landing this month and it will really be the second half before we start to see an emphasis on improvement in home performance.
behind bit counting pitch puts quite
We were counting on him to pitch quite a bit so that puts us behind the eight-ball a little bit.
bunch coming good pieces together
We were coming off our first season. We kind of had a bunch of unknowns. We just have to go out and put all the pieces together in the spring. We have some good young talent, but we really don't know what to expect.
ahead couple experience offense played starters
Our offense is probably ahead of our defense, right now. Not having starters back is deceptive, because a lot of them played as backups. A couple of them even got experience in the playoffs.
good hitting job late year
Late in the year they really did a good job for us. We need big hitting years from those guys.
early lincoln win
Lincoln was a pretty big win for us. We got down early but battled back and got the win.
ball balls good hard hit job putting selective strike
(Our hitters) did a good job of being selective and when they got a strike they did a good job of putting the ball in play. Didn't hit a lot of balls real, real hard but we were getting them in play.
defense felt games good pitching won
I felt good with the way we were playing. Defense and pitching won the games for us today.
avoiding break good job
Fortunately for us, we got a break and he did a good job of avoiding the tag.