Sure, London is tax-friendly in its own way, which is why hedge-funds love pitching their tents in the capital, and the current government plans to lower its corporate tax rate to 24% over the net few years.
Then there is the commercial -- I don't even remember what they were pitching -- of two or three kids in the kitchen making a mess after spilling the cereal.
It's been a rough week for umpires, who botched a home run review Wednesday in Cleveland and goofed on a pitching-change rule the next night in Houston.
Angels ace Jered Weaver, sidelined since April 8 because of a broken bone in his non-pitching arm, is scheduled to throw in an extended spring training game at the team's Arizona complex on Wednesday and may not need a minor league rehab assignment.
But Gil Patterson, who succeeded him as Oakland's minor-league pitching coordinator in 2008, said Romanick often challenged the conventional wisdom on throwing programs.
But a couple of below-par pitching outings in the playoffs, such as the one they got from Cliff Lee Sunday night, can lead to trouble quickly.
Alas, they fell to an underdog but pitching-rich Mets club in a three-games-to-two-upset in the National League Championship Series, scoring just nine runs in the five games.
They also have the second-best pitching staff in the major leagues on paper as well as Robinson Cano, who's one of the five or so best every day players in the game, and a variety of useful veterans, some of whom should actually be playing in games by May.
Two delightful Panesar deliveries from round the wicket - drifting in, pitching on middle and spinning away from the right-handers - were too good for Marlon Samuels and Denesh Ramdin.
BBC: Monty Panesar was in red-hot form between lunch and tea
After re-tearing the anterior capsule in his pitching shoulder, the one-time Mets ace is scheduled for another surgery Tuesday that he hopes can save his career.
At last year's television industry upfront, the then NBC entertainment chief faced a sea of marketers pitching a fourth-place network in duress.
The 2007 World Series between the Boston Red Sox and Colorado Rockies should lay to rest one of the great myths of modern baseball: that a dominant "closer"--a high-priced pitching ace who enters a game in the final inning to nail down a victory--is a must-have for success.
Look for plenty of pill-pitching athletes to pop up in ads during this year's Super Bowl.
While that is undoubtedly true, I can tell you from my near-decade in the pitching business on the agency side (first at Arnold Worldwide and now with my own pitch consultancy for agencies), that agencies can smell pitches launched with the wrong intentions, or pitches run without being properly thought through.
FORBES: The Agency Review: Sometimes The Pitch Is Best Left Unpitched.
In order to reach his goal of pitching 200 innings for the second time in his seven-year career, Marcum has been throwing more during the offseason than in the past.
Data storage giant EMC is pitching in, funding a one-year fellowship for someone to work with cities nationwide to better engage with the project.
By the time she had parlayed Speed into roles in a string of well-received films, she had developed a penchant for pitching in to scout locations, court potential investors and give the studio her opinions on which overseas markets might offer the best returns.
One of the unquestionable feel-good storylines thus far in the 2012 MLB season is the unexpected pitching success of 37-year old knuckle-baller R.
The former New York Mets ace will have surgery Tuesday to repair the re-torn anterior capsule in his pitching shoulder, the team announced Saturday.
Igawa is back pitching (not all that well) in Japan with the Orix Buffaloes, DeSalvo pitched in 2012 with the Lamigo Monkeys of the Chinese Professional Baseball League, Wright pitched in 2012 for the Independent Somerset Patriots and Henn is currently at Triple-A with the Mets after pitching in 2012 with the Hanwha Eagles in Korea.
The left-hander re-tore the anterior capsule in his pitching shoulder.
The Reds, Royals and Giants approached the season with the mindset that throwing millions of dollars into closing pitching would guarantee that eighth-inning leads become tallies in the win column.
FORBES: Increased Chance Of Injury Makes Closing Pitching A Risky Investment
Some employees of the New York company told each other how unfair it seems to them that Goldman is being singled out for betting against the housing market in 2007 as it was pitching mortgage-backed bonds to certain clients.
For a team that led the AL in pitching and scoring, it was a complete performance that produced its seventh straight win in this post-season.
Some banks skirt the on-campus marketing restrictions by pitching checking accounts instead, in hopes of signing students up for cards later.
The Angels ranked second this spring with a whopping .300 batting average, but they were dead last in pitching with a 6.56 earned-run average more than a full run worse than the next team.
It's true that neither is likely to get to 300 wins, but that magic round number has become very much outdated as a benchmark in this era of five-man pitching rotations and increased emphasis on relief pitching.
As the boat is slammed by searing winds and tumultuous seas, he staggers around, sliding over slippery decks, seasick, bruised, exhausted and wholly in awe of the crew's ability to work on the roiling deck, in the pitching gutting room and the ice-filled hold.
She says producer Ryan Seacrest convinced her to take part in the show by pitching it as a 30-minute commercial for Dash.
Cleveland also said right-hander Frank Hermann sprained a ligament in his pitching elbow on Monday against Oakland and outfielder Michael Brantley could return to limited baseball activities next week.
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