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...
help hopefully sounds
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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These guys are doing what they have to do right now to put runs on the board, especially when we as a staff aren't doing as well as we'd like to. We still have to pick up some slack and when we do, hopefully we can pick them up sometimes, too.
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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.
basketball community decisions factor focused high hockey huge people places rather school size
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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It's going to be a tough opening month. I think most of us are just looking forward to getting the season going and looking forward to the challenge of it. Hopefully we can get off to a good start and play the best baseball right away because it's not going to be an easy stretch.
bit finish hopefully last numbers people persuade strong three top total wins
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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I think it's the cardinal's vision and the pope's vision that it would be a center that would appeal to a lot of people. The hope was that it wasn't going to be 10 people giving millions each ... but millions each giving $1.
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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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Over the last 18 months that this issue has developed, we have been talking with various IBM executives at many levels, and just had not gotten anywhere, ... We're frustrated.
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I was glad to get through it and get Johan a win after the way he pitched, ... Since I've been here, that's the loudest I've heard it.
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This is a huge loss. It's one of the more disappointing of this season. For our team to battle back, for them to do what they did and the way the guys threw before, it was awesome.
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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.
staff
We've got our staff back. We've got a better lineup. We're going to be a lot better.
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We're not going to sit there and say that we need more runs. We know how hard it is, and it's not like our hitters need to be told. We don't need to state the obvious. They're coming in and busting their butt everyday and doing whatever they need to to get better.