ballgame

During visits that I have made to Mayan archeological sites, tour guides have told me that the Mayan ballgame was more than a sport; it was a ritual played to assure the continued cycle of sunrise and sunset.

If you are an online old-timer from the days when you had to know your way around a UNIX prompt to access the Internet, did you ever think that someday you'd be able to watch ballgames, TV programs, movies, news broadcasts, and all the jaw-dropping stuff on YouTube and Google Videos?

On Friday night, Cal and I picked up our routine: a plate of ribs and a ballgame, and I was thinking that what ever happened with Momma and him might soon cool off.

"That was the key part of the ballgame," Riley said.

Before the Highest, Longest, Most section it was anybody's ballgame, but when it comes to stairs and rails, Zero knows how to score.

You know it's a different ballgame when sending a rubber duck to the "Live With Regis and Kelly" show creates more brand buzz for insurance company AFLAC than a press conference!

The soldiers were honored with a cocktail reception, dinner and dance, followed by lunch and a Texas Rangers ballgame on Sept.

Add the glare of the sun, the wind, wave action, chop on the water, depth of the water, clarity, weeds, etc., and it's a whole new ballgame. Skills learned in the pool environment are transferable, but staff need to make adjustments in their scanning and supervision of participants in, on, and under the water because of these external factors.

At the CCHS ballgame that evening, one parent shared with me that her son had come home from school all excited about the recital, insisting they must get tickets and go to the performance the next evening because, in his opinion, I was "really good." And it wasn't just talk--he showed up at the recital the next evening with parents and siblings in tow.

Fenton said many insurers no longer can buy reinsurance for benefits they offer, so they are exploring hedging programs to mitigate the risk and stay in the ballgame with guarantees.

Most methodologies that are called healing methodologies, in my opinion, are in a different ballgame than I am speaking about.

Representative Tom Davis of Virginia, former chairman of the National Republican Campaign Committee, says recruiting this year had "been sparse on both sides." Davis, who speaks of good recruiting as "the whole ballgame," says that he is not above playing on potential candidates' emotions.

To me, it's simply a great place to see a ballgame; too bad that ballgame is usually--no, always--won by the home team.

The baseball background is authentic and the dialogue takes you out to the ballgame with its sass, wit, in-jokes, and wry observations (mostly obscene) about parenting, sports medicine, drinking, chasing skirts, and beating the Yankees.

We started with a Friday night dinner and ended with a Saturday night ballgame. If we did it again, we'd make the Saturday event optional so participants could head home with only one hotel night.