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Bombazo oooooomg
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Otra toma del Golazo de tiro libre de @jamesdrodriguez
Desde la tribuna!!!! Golazooo
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— Madridistas de Bien© (@MADbien) August 29, 2015
Pouncing on Wilson's throw like a leopard (participial), Malcolm Butler, an undrafted free agent from Western Alabama (appositive), ripped apart Seahawk's dreams of a repeat Super Bowl victory.For Friday via Drama/Suspense #1:
Super Bowl 49 emerged from the muck of the NFL's most embarrassing year on record. Plagued by looming concussion concerns and the shameful off field domestic violence of Adrian Peterson, Ray Rice, Ray McDonald, and Greg Hardy, could the actual game make us remember why we love football so unconditionally? Almost. Despite the two weeks of wall to wall media coverage normally covering such insignificant player quirks and foibles and over-hyped narratives, the giggle inducing PSI gap of Tom Brady's footballs threatened to be the final insult to the once sterling image of America's most popular sport. The multi-million dollar Hollywood produced commercials might not be enough to make us forgive and forget; however, could the drama of the game itself save this season?
RT @marklamster: curiously, derrick rose was painted by velazquez in 1650. pic.twitter.com/fUZUVcB8wx
— David Grann (@DavidGrann) May 9, 2015
There are essentially two things that can happen with a knuckleball. It can float toward the plate without spin, jerk around like boozy relatives at a wedding hall and make the world's best hitters look like hapless Looney Tunes characters. Or it can float toward the plate with spin, lope with a steady trajectory at 65 mph and give the world's best hitters the juiciest slab of red meat this side of Sizzler. When a knuckleball specialist is on (adverbial) , he's a magician, conjuring the dark and mysterious forces of the universe (participial) ; when he's off (adverbial), he's the pot-bellied assistant manager throwing batting practice...
A participle phrase will often appear at the start of a sentence to describe something in the main clause. For example:
A participle phrase can also appear immediately after whatever it's modifying. For example:
- Removing his glasses, the professor shook his head with disappointment.
(When a sentence is structured this way, use a comma to separate the participle phrase from whatever it's modifying (the professorin this example).)
It is also possible to use a participle phrase at the end of a clause and not immediately after whatever it's modifying. For example:
- I saw Arthur running for the bus.
(There is no comma when a participle phrase is placed immediately after its noun (Arthur in this example).)
- Paul loved his boxing gloves, wearing them even to bed.
(There is a comma when the participle phrase is used farther down the sentence than its noun (Paul in this example).)
Wright went on the disabled list April 15 with a hamstring strain. Bothered by lower-back pain in May (participial), he was found to have spinal stenosis, a narrowing of the spinal canal (appositive). In June, Manager Terry Collins said, he thought Wright would be lost for the season.
“This might sound strange coming from me, because I’m about as old and as cynical as they come,” said Robertson. “But what J.J. has got is a charisma that you don’t often see these days among professional athletes. He seems to be the real thing—an old-fashioned, down-to-earth hero of sorts who hasn’t let all the fame mess with his head. After that charity softball game, he actually sent me a personal tweet saying, ‘Hey, Dale, thanks for coming out.’ I mean, who does that anymore?”....
Watt doesn’t just work hard. “J.J. is completely, utterly obsessed,” said Lechler. “I get to the stadium at six-twenty in the morning, and he’s already there, his truck parked in the front row. And while the rest of us go home by three, he usually is there until the evening. Sometimes he’ll text me, asking me where I am, letting me know he is still lifting weights, making himself better, trying to win us a championship.”
In truth, Watt has made one concession to being a very wealthy man. He has begun chartering private jets whenever he needs to take a trip. But there is a practical reason for that, he told me. It saves him from spending several hours in the airport, which makes it far easier to get in his two daily weight workouts. Nothing, of course, gets in the way of Watt’s weight workouts. As he said during a press conference before his charity softball game, “I never want to let a day go by without having done something to get a little better. I want to go out and chase greatness. That’s all I want to do.” -
Joe Girardi was ejected in the ninth inning Thursday as soon as he confronted the plate umpire, Dan Iassogna, about balls and strikes. But Girardi, theYankees’ manager, was in no hurry to leave the field. He tried some performance art first.Girardi was upset about the strike zone after his cleanup hitter, Brian McCann, struck out looking. After the ejection, Girardi strode away from Iassogna and dug his spikes into the dirt, scratching a line parallel to the plate and well out of the zone. Girardi yelled a little more, for theatrical flair, and then left with an energized crowd behind him.The Yankees responded with another run, but Didi Gregorius flied to left with runners on second and third to finish a 3-2 loss to the Cleveland Indians.“I just wanted the strike zone to be right,” Girardi said, mentioning other calls that also bothered him. “I want the strike zone to be the strike zone, and I know they’re not going to be perfect; I understand that. But it’s a real important time.”
The loss shaved a half-game from the Yankees’ lead in the American League East, which now stands at a game and a half over the idle Toronto Blue Jays, who start a road series against the Los Angeles Angels on Friday.
The Yankees have three more games this weekend with the Indians, who arrived in last place in the A.L. Central but have been tougher for the Yankees than Minnesota, Cleveland’s divisional neighbor, has been. The Yankees swept the Twins this week but have now lost three of four this month to the Indians.
The Yankees will miss the reigning A.L. Cy Young Award winner, Corey Kluber, in this series, but they will face other tough right-handers, Carlos Carrasco and Danny Salazar, the next two days. The soft-throwing Josh Tomlin looked like an easier assignment, but he was not.
“He did just enough to keep us in between speeds,” said McCann, who was 0 for 3 against Tomlin before Cody Allen struck him out in the ninth.
Bullfight
Participial Phrases- Participles (verb phrases) describe nouns or pronouns. Present participles always end in –ing. Past participles usually end in –ed.Standing there in the middle of the street, Marty suddenly thought of Halloween.Amazed at the simplicity of it all, I understood everything as never before.
