Dan Johnson
Dan Johnson
Daniel Ryan Johnsonis an American professional baseball first baseman and pitcher who is playing for the St. Paul Saints. He has played in most of ten seasons in Major League Baseball and Nippon Professional Baseball, but has never held a Major League starting job for an entire season. He is perhaps best known for hitting a dramatic two-out, two-strike home run for the Tampa Bay Rays in the bottom of the ninth inning of the last game of the 2011...
ProfessionBaseball Player
Date of Birth10 August 1979
CityCoon Rapids, MN
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It's been our pitching staff keeping us in these games. We really haven't been able to generate much offense.
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The first and most important objective was to step up our recruiting of international students,
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Does the principal go through my garbage? The implications of this are mind numbing and infinite.
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I think we have all the ingredients to really be a good team.
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Are we going to have parent conferences at midnight? Are my custodians now my housekeepers? Am I going to get married and have my reception out there on the plaza area of the school.
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As a freshman, she could hardly kick the ball 10 yards. Now she really sees the field well. She had three assists in our first two games. She hustles and she's a worker. She always has been.
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This is a dream for me. I wasn't expecting to be called up to the big leagues.
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That's definitely never happened to me. That was something else.
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A meaningful trip for all. I had not visited the home since age 12. I'm a new teacher at Stones River and can only hope the experience will last as long for our students as my childhood trip did for me. If our children don't know where we've been as a society, how can we know where we're going? I was amazed at how attentive our kids were. Thank you for a wonderful experience.
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Right now the bridge catches debris even in low flow situations.
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I don't know if this impacts me in a bad way or a good way. I heard I might move back to first, which is my ideal position because I can contribute more than just hitting.
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It has been fun to coach and watch him mature physically, ... His success is no accident because he has worked hard to earn it.
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Heck yeah I knew I was playing. That's the only reason I changed my pants.
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Thank God. As competitive as we are, we wanted to get on the board. We were getting mad.