Joint third are the New York Yankees (a baseball team) and the Dallas Cowboys (an American-football team).
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Like a baseball team, most project teams include a few veterans as well as rookies in the bullpen.
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What makes it difficult is that, just like managing a baseball team, most people think that they're pretty good at it.
This is like a baseball team that consists entirely of right fielders.
Among its noncore holdings are a baseball team and a sports stadium.
Schlough has been the CIO of the Giants for 14 years, but it seems unimaginable that a former Unix admin could run a baseball team.
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"I am going to have a baseball team, " he says emphatically.
Mr Bush's fortune came not from Harken but from his share in the sale of the Texas Rangers, a baseball team in which he invested using Harken shares as collateral.
Third, a baseball team has to play the ball wherever it is hit so baseball teams are composed of players who are each suited for a different position on the field.
" "But much like a manager of a baseball team who really, really wants to win, is beloved by his players but simply can't win -- sometimes it's time to move on.
Can we trust ourselves to have smart corporate lawyers provide for a baseball team the kinds of checks and balances that have worked for the vast majority of corporations in this country?
One thing is for certain: To anyone who's in the business of owning a baseball team, the idea of getting players to leave money on the table in their primes makes more sense than the alternative.
Cuban wants to own a baseball team.
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Imagine a baseball team with a veteran All-Star first baseman and a hot 22-year-old who has been tearing it up in Triple-A. They want to get their young prospect some playing time, but don't believe he'll really benefit much from another season facing Triple-A pitching.
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In Greenville (South Carolina) there are no NFL teams but there is Class A baseball team, the Greenville Drive (affiliate of the Boston Red Sox) and in less than a two hour drive you could see the Atlanta Falcons or the Carolina Panthers .
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Dortmund needed to win to stop Bayern from clinching the Bundesliga title mathematically, but with the Bavarians sporting a 20-point lead and just seven games to go, it is pretty much a foregone conclusion, like a baseball team with a "magic number" of one in August.
Two great players can make a championship team in basketball while a couple of great pitchers with a few great hitters can make a championship baseball team.
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This column offers the same sort of counsel for those maintaining a fantasy baseball team (or five), drawing opinions from a panel of roto experts.
There are several states across the nation with low baseball to football ratios that are predominantly rural, not near a professional baseball team, and located near significant college football universities.
Over the course of the nearly-complete 2010 baseball season, this column has offered the same sort of counsel to those managing a fantasy baseball team (or ten).
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Disney, which also owns a local baseball team, the California Angels, based at Anaheim, in the same urban area, is launching a new sports channel, challenging Mr Murdoch's Fox Sports channel to serve up more exciting fare.
For example, a Major League Baseball team that owns a stadium may be interested in concession data.
Suddenly those specific universities can behave a bit like a baseball farm team.
It has been expanding into niche markets, including environment- and energy-related businesses, and owns a professional baseball team in Japan.
Like a baseball farm team, though, in-house self-publishing divisions provide a new pool of talent from which a publisher can draw.
President Bush, a former baseball team owner who has spoken against steroid use, is "very disappointed to hear this, " said White House spokesman Tony Fratto.
That has changed drastically though, and nowhere more so than in Tampa Bay where a trio of Wall Street veterans have been trying to redefine how to build a winning baseball team.
In his spare time from managing a Major League Baseball team, Mike Matheny, following a manifesto that established him as one of the more passionate, and wordy, opinionators in youth sports, is going to try his hand at blogging about that subject.
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What the current owners, Frank and Jamie McCourt, fail to understand is that their ownership constitutes a disruption of the Dodgers baseball team and is itself a continuing nuisance to the fans.
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