John Shelby
John Shelby
John T. Shelbyis a former center fielder in Major League Baseball who played from 1981 to 1991. His nickname was "T-Bone" for his slight frame. He currently is a coach in the Colorado Rockies minor league system...
pitches struggled
I struggled a lot early. The more pitches you see, the better you're going to get.
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Considering all the things that have happened, he's held up pretty well ? maybe better than some people expected.
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I made a few adjustments in batting practice. The coaches said I wasn't staying balanced on my back leg.
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If I were a child of Tibet or of Arabia, I suspect the path I'd walk would be the Buddhist path or the Muslim path. And I don't mind saying that I don't invalidate any of those paths.
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Winning the series would be a huge boost and show we can go to (NCAA) Regional and the College World Series.
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We've got a brand new team, with a whole bunch of new guys. Everybody on this team wants to win, and is trying to win.
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Christianity is not about the divine becoming human so much as it is about the human becoming divine. That is a paradigm shift of the first order.
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We know it is a big accomplishment. We wanted to get it done and prove a point.
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We developed more when we played in different leagues during the summer. We know Bubba is the big shooter, someone we need to get the ball to. Brad can score about anytime he wants. I can create shots. We all know our roles.
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The virgin birth, understood as literal biology, makes Christ's divinity, as traditionally understood, impossible.
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If you begin to give people hope that there is a brighter future, there is a new tomorrow, then the people who were yesterday's terrorists become tomorrow's elected officials and they're part of the system.
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Whatever diminishes life is evil, and whatever enhances life is good.
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The hope for life after death must be separated forever from the behavior control mentality of reward and punishment. The Church must abandon, therefore, its reliance on guilt as a motivator of behavior.
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As for the status of Western Christianity, we are in a place where our task is to redefine the primary symbols of our faith or tradition in a more human direction. That's the thing I spend my time doing.