John Shelby
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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...
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People still underestimate us. They still think we're the same Kentucky, but we can prove ourselves. If we can pull this, we'll prove to everybody that we're for real.
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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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It's the biggest series I've ever played in college.
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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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I never really liked the Gospel of John because I never could find the humanity of Jesus in it. I thought it presented Jesus as a visitor from another planet; in addition, John's gospel is and has been interpreted as a document that fuels anti-Semitism in the church.
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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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In the first gospel, Mark, the risen Christ appears physically to no one, but by the time we come to the last gospel, John, Thomas is invited to feel the nail prints in Christ's hands and feet and the spear wound in his side.
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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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I cannot possibly conceive of my planet Earth as the centre of a three-tiered universe. I know rather that the sun, around which my planet Earth revolves, is a middle sized star in a galaxy called the Milky Way that has over a hundred billion other suns or stars within it.
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In academia, I discovered that issues and insights, commonplace among the scholars, are viewed as highly controversial and even as 'heresy' in the churches.
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We really talked about it this week because it is a big thing going undefeated in conference play. It hadn't been done for 27 years in our school's history, so we wanted to come out here with a good attitude and not overlook Delphi.