The lower the class of the affair, the more likely the band will be invited to eat.
Ham Porter: *play ball!* Hurry up, batter. This better be a short game, I gotta get home for lunch. [Pitcher pitches and the batter fails to even swing] Ham Porter: Haha, that's one. [cuts to new pitch] Ham Porter: [to the batter] You know, if my dog...
Battered women who were physically abused as children develop an active coping style as adults, typically with obsessive-compulsive tendencies. It is as if she can "just get things right" then the battering will stop. Those who were sexually abused a...
Striking out batters was easy.
Anybody's best pitch is the one the batters ain't hitting that day.
Many women say that verbal violence causes more harm than physical violence because it damages self-esteem so deeply. Women have not wanted to hear battered women say that the verbal abuse was as hurtful as the physical abuse: to acknowledge that tru...
I threw a lot of balls and walked a lot of batters. Not something I'm proud of, but something I learned from.
Happiness is brief. It will not stay. God batters at its sails.
Baseball skills schizophrenically encompass a pitcher's, a batter's and a fielder's.
Imagine a sunset, lavender and red / as battered morals . . .
Boxing is smoky halls and kidneys battered until they bleed.
Every great batter works on the theory that the pitcher is more afraid of him than he is of the pitcher.
I prefer the rather old and battered, things with character, to the brand new.
Dudley Heinsbergen: [pointing at the battered Gypsy Cab] That cab has a dent in it.
The pitcher setting up the batter. It's chess, and you play with it.
Krispy Kreme claims the 'batter is the best part.' Same with an Obama speech. It's all about what's on the outside, not what's inside.
Some batters, and good ones too, scoff at the whole theory of place hitting, calling it a myth. They are wrong, however.
In fact, I'd just like to own something. Everyone thinks I'm glamorous, rich and famous but all I've got is some recording equipment and a battered old BMW.
A face whose emotions had not yet been battered by experience.
Twenty games is the magic figure for pitchers - .300 is the magic figures for batters. It pays off in salary and reputation. And those are the two things that keep a ballplayer in business.
It is tragic that some Christians have been so battered with stories of a prideful, vindictive God that they have fled from Jesus' fold.
