Mike Jacobs
Mike Jacobs
Michael James Jacobsis an American professional baseball first baseman for the Lancaster Barnstormers. He has played in Major League Baseballfor the New York Mets, Florida Marlins, Kansas City Royals, and Arizona Diamondbacks...
ProfessionBaseball Player
Date of Birth30 October 1980
forks general grand optimistic quite turn widespread
The general sense of disappointment is pretty widespread in the Herald company, but we've been through worse. I'm quite optimistic that this will turn out well for Grand Forks and the Herald.
experience growing watched
It's exciting. I watched him growing up, ... This whole experience is exciting.
crest feet reach specific wider
They used to say very specific things like, 'The crest will reach 49 feet at this time.' Now they give a wider range.
ride
I'm going to ride this as long as I can.
learn personal situation veteran
I don't know too much about the situation and I don't get into personal stuff, ... But just to see a veteran going through what he's going through, you always learn from that.
bases describe felt hear hit home walking
You can't really describe it. It's like walking on air. After I hit my home run, I felt like I didn't hear anything and just jogged around the bases ... it's unexplainable.
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The hope for me is to try and create a clearing ground, where rather than just go back with two players from this trip, I'll be able to identify players that I can pull every year.
operating problems realm systems
It's in the realm of operating systems that the most troublesome problems exist,
league major opportunity playing seen six
It's a very big opportunity. You don't see an opportunity like this come up in major league baseball. In the six years I've been playing in the minors, I don't think I've ever seen it.
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I think it would have a positive economic impact. I think it would mean Wisconsin would finally get a greater share of where the federal dollars are spent.
feeling great happy obviously situation
I was obviously happy for the guy. To get called up and be put in a situation like that and be able to come up big like that is awesome. It must've been a great feeling for him because I know it was for me.
bet
I bet you can play some bad-ass Madden on it,
bottom excited game line win
You get a little more excited for a game like this and when you do well it makes you feel good. But the bottom line is we didn't win the game and that's what we're here to do and not make one person feel good.
guys night ready
With all the things I've been able to do up here so far, to be able to do that, it's awesome. It was a long night ...and I think the guys were ready to get out of here.