Their first baseball game – German translation

  • I love the way that they’ll stare slack-jawed at their first baseball game with wide eyes and a mitt on their hand, soaking in the crack of the bat and the crunch of the peanuts and the smell of the hotdogs.

    I love that they stare, gaping at their first baseball game, wide-eyed and gloved, soaking up the cracking of the bat, the crunching of the peanuts, and the smell of the hot dogs.

  • They are the two young men on either side of these young boys. This is part of a series of baseball clinics, where we have explored collaboration between Major League Baseballthe Department of State, who sets up the diplomatic piece of this, military baseball players, who are real soldiers with real skills but participate in this mission, and they put on clinics throughout Latin America and the Caribbean, in Honduras, in Nicaragua, in all of the Central American and Caribbean nations where baseball is so popular, and it creates security.

    They are the two young men on either side of these boys. This is part of a series of baseball training camps in which we have tried out the cooperation between Major League Baseball, the State Department, which handles the diplomatic part, and the trained soldier baseball players. They have training camps all over Latin America and the Caribbean, in Honduras, in Nicaragua and in every Central American country where baseball is so popular and it creates security.

  • In game play, for example, in Go — everyone remembers in 1997 when IBM’s Deep Blue beat Garry Kasparov at chess — fewer people are aware that in the past 10 years or so, the game of Go, arguably a much more challenging game because it has a much higher branching factor, has also started to succumb to computer game players for the same reason: the best techniques right now for computers playing Go are techniques that try to maximize future options during game play.

    In gaming, for example, Go — everyone remembers 1997, when IBM’s Deep Blue beat Garry Kasparov at chess — fewer people are aware that in the last 10 or so years, the game of Go, presumably a much more challenging game, since it has a much higher branching factor, is increasingly won by computers too, for the same reason: the current best techniques for computers to play Go are techniques that maximize future options during the game to attempt.

  • You play baseball when it’s baseball season and when there’s a game on the schedule.

    Then when it’s baseball season and a game is called.

  • And when you show up to play baseballnobody needs to talk about what we’re going to do or how this baseball game might be good for us.

    And when you show up to play baseball, nobody talks about what we’re going to do or why this game might be good for us.

  • In baseballthe game follows the pre-game.

    In baseball, the game follows the pre-game.

  • I read the other day about a program where you feed it a box score from a baseball or football game and it spits out a news article as if a human had watched the game and was commenting on it.

    I recently read about a scoring program that feeds you before a baseball or football game and spits out an article as if a human had watched the game and commented on it.

  • Because baseball is the dominant cultural metaphor that Americans use to think about and talk about sexual activity, and we know that because there’s all this language in English that seems to be talking about baseball but that’s really talking about sexual activity.

    Because baseball is the dominant cultural metaphor Americans use to think and talk about sexual activity; and we know this because there are all these words in the English language that seem to be about baseball but actually mean sexual activity.

  • Okay, so when you’re playing baseballso if we talk about during sexual activity, when you’re playing baseballyou’re just supposed to round the bases in the proper order one at a time.

    So when you play baseball – if we mean sexual activity – when you play baseball, you’re supposed to walk the “bases,” one at a time, in the right order.

  • There’s always a winner in baseballand that means there’s always a loser in baseball.

    There’s always a winner in baseball, which means there’s always a loser in baseball.

  • You may have noticed in the baseball and pizza comparison, under the baseballit’s all commands.

    You may have noticed when comparing baseball and pizza that baseball is about command.

  • That’s substantially faster than a baseball thrown by even the finest of baseball pitchers.

    That’s a lot faster than a baseball, even when thrown by one of the best pitchers.

  • My youngest, Andrew, he came down from his home in Charlestown where he was working in Boston, and my son Pete, who had played at Boston College, baseballhad played baseball professionally in Europe, and had now come home and was selling group insurance, he also joined us.

    My youngest, Andrew, was from Charlestown, he was working there in Boston. Also came my son Pete, a former baseball player at Boston College and a pro baseball player in Europe. He had returned home and was now selling insurance.

  • I photographed Ron at a baseball field because he had been drafted to the Oakland A’s to play professional baseball just before his conviction.

    I photographed Ron at a baseball field because he had been signed by the Oakland A’s to play baseball professionally just prior to his arrest.

  • But it actually makes a lot of sense they should, because bees, like us, can recognize a good flower regardless of the time of day, the light, the weather, or from any angle they approach it from. (Applause) BL: So the next step was to design an experiment, which is a game. So the kids went off and they designed this experiment, and so — well, game — and so, Amy, can you tell us what the game was, and the puzzle that you set the bees?

    But it actually makes a lot of sense. Bees, just like us, recognize a good flower regardless of the time of day, the light, the weather, or the angle of approach. (Applause) BL: The next step should be to design an experiment that is a game. The children went and designed the experiment or game. Amy, what was that game? What riddle did the bees have to solve?

  • And when I went to one of the clubhouses a couple years ago, I saw a 13-year-old boy who was using our Scratch software to create a game somewhat like this one, and he was very happy with his game and proud of his gamebut also he wanted to do more.

    When I went to one of the clubhouses a few years ago I saw a 13 year old boy using our scratch software to make a game similar to this one and he was very happy and proud of this game on it, but he also wanted to do more.

  • So if you have life hacking — life means hacking, the game of survival — then evolution is a way to extend the game by changing the rules of the game.

    So if life is hacking — life is hacking, the game of survival — then evolution is a way of expanding the game through rule changes.

  • That’s the definition of “infinite game.” A finite game is play to win, and an infinite game is played to keep playing.

    This is the definition of a “boundless game”. A finite game is played to win, and a limitless game is played to keep playing.

  • Here’s how the game is played: there are two players; they’ve never played the game before, they will not play the game again, they don’t know each other, and they are, in fact, in separate rooms.

    This is how the game is played. There are two actors. You have never played the game before. You will not play the game again. They don’t know each other. And they are even in separate rooms.

  • To teach a system how to play a game like Go, I’d have it play thousands of games of Go, but in the process I also teach it how to discern a good game from a bad game.

    To teach a system a game like Go, I would have it play a thousand games of Go, but then I also teach it to tell if a game is good or bad.

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