Joking aside, the primary reason is probably much more mundane: Pitchers simply have more down time.
Everything Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson touches these days turns to gold, from the film franchises he whips into blockbusters, to the diamond-encrusted WWE championship belt he drapes over his shoulder before he hits the ring to lay the smack down one more time in his triumphant return to the company.
The dogs were tiring now but still hunting the ground, noses down, taking more time to sniff, less hopeful.
Hitchhike through rural Maine with Alan Parker, a college student whose car couldn't have broken down at a more inopportune time.
"We have reduced the number of train drivers working this year, giving people more quality time off - down to 880 drivers from 1, 100 last year, " he said.
If the patient's time -- the process of your death -- were slowed down, doctors would have more time to fix you.
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Since the average adult spends more than 90 percent of their leisure time sitting down, we should focus on trying to take more opportunities to stand during our daily activities especially when we eat, drive, are at work, or when we watch TV.
One more time, Reisman drove down from San Francisco to Silicon Valley, where she met TCV's managing partner Jay Hoag and associate Michael Linnert.
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By conceding the touchdown and the lead, he figured, his offense would have a little more time left to drive down the field and score, taking back the lead to win the game.
With the Freeride I have trekked across the Alps from Chamonix to Zermatt, spending more time going up than down, and I have spent seven-hour days doing downhill laps using Snowbird's 125-person tram in Utah--all on one set of skis.
So I laid out a plan to pay for the American Jobs Act, and then some -- a plan that not only pays for the bill to put folks back to work to raise our growth rate, but to also pay down more of our debt over time.
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"I think he started to take a little more time and throw his pitches down, " Cervelli said.
Maybe we should have allotted more time, taken a ride down to the bottom, or perhaps come back during the summer and ride the rapids?
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The company said the main reason for Mr Parsa to step down was to give him more time to fulfil "his passion for social entrepreneurship".
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Deciding to leave, says Danaher, was "a long, good process" that came down to wanting to spend more time with her three children, ages 7, 11 and 13.
September arrivals at Phnom Penh's Pochentong international airport were down more than 45% from the same time last year.
Rovers lacked discipline, made too many errors and should have been more than 12-0 down at half-time after tries from Andy Lynch and Elliot Whitehead.
Nieto had long since returned after his first-half sin-binning but his discipline let him down once more 10 minutes after half-time as he again infringed at a ruck and O'Gara made it 11-0.
They're, you know, I've, I've probably, in these last couple of years, spent more time talking, discussing, sitting down with National Health Service staff than any prime minister before me and I can tell you they are highly dedicated, very able, committed people and a lot of them have been working flat out in this system, starved of the proper investment, and are desperate for the changes we're trying to introduce.
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We need to alter the school schedule to make more effective use of instructional time, use data more effectively to make critical decisions, and break down the barriers that exist between our schools and parents and the larger community.
In fact, we have more manpower down at the Southwest border than at any time in our history.
Additionally, Stoudemire is isolating with the basketball just 4% of the time, which is down from more than 20% last season.
But on an Internet vastly bigger and more diverse than when the Time Warner deal went down in early 2000, what does the future hold for the once-dominant online hangout?
He might test a range of incentives on food servers to determine how best to motivate customer drink orders without driving the servers to be overly pushy, or evaluate which of several potential incentives might make first-time visitors down on their luck more likely to return.
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He uses his fingernails instead of a pick, which is quite common, except instead of plucking strings upward individually, he can play more than one string at a time by stroking down --- and up -- with the backs of his nails, which allows him to play several notes at once.
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Source: Brookings InstitutionDistributed power technologies that operate all or most of the time are more reliable and cleaner than those that operate only when the grid goes down precisely because they operate all of the time.
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Boulez stepped down from this position in 1991 to devote more time to composing and conducting.
At the time of this posting (late Sunday night, central time) the Nikkei index was down more than 6% and shares of Tokyo Electric were off 24%.
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This is a time when you can take more risk and double down.
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