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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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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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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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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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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This is a huge loss. It's one of the more disappointing blown saves for me.
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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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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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I feel great. Right now, it's just location. I've left some balls over the plate the last couple of outings.
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That was a huge loss. It's one of the more disappointing losses, especially for our team to battle back like that.
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I think fantasy is a good thing, it creates interest. I don't think about it much. It's not like I go out and try to perform for a fantasy team, but I think they are good to create interest and not just in baseball.
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My thought was just to try to get ahead on strikes and make sure I'm around the plate. It's been a while since I've been out there, so in those situations you never know how you will react.
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I think J.C. is in a better spot mentally, so I think it was more along the lines of that than him trying to stir up anything with us.
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That's out of his control. Hopefully the other numbers prove to be stronger.