In an economy powered by ideas, A players make all the difference in the world.
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Liverpool have made a players-plus-cash offer for the 27-year-old but O'Neill is unwilling to let Barry leave.
Hughes gave up five hits and struck out four over five shutout innings against Toronto Class A players.
They state that an applicant for a players' agent licence may not hold a position at a club.
And so you build up these pockets of A players, and it propagates.
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But he clearly wanted A players and was happy to have A players around him who disagreed with him.
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"From a players point of view we're certainly well aware of our responsibilities to them, " the 34-year-old told BBC Radio Bristol.
He won the award in 1981 by homering twice in baseball's first game after a players' strike that lasted two months.
Without a players association to collectively bargain, the players will lose all their collectively bargained rights such as medical insurance and their pension.
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That's why Major League Baseball pitchers earn so much more than triple-A players, despite throwing fastballs only a couple of miles an hour faster.
From a players situation because of social media, e-mail and the Internet a lot of those guys are aware and can read about it on their own.
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Manchester City boss Roberto Mancini is facing a players' revolt.
It simply means there is no longer a players association.
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All of this begs a question: Is it really fair to basically lock in most of a players' lifetime income based on his performance as a college senior and his draft position?
Even though he kept his abrasive management style overall, he was absolutely right that the most important thing for an A player (in terms of talent) is that they work with other A players.
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Microsoft announced Project Natal, a new controller-free video gaming system, which reads a players body movements with cameras and mimics them with avatars on screen, will be available for purchase by the holiday season this year.
The team drew a record 4.4 million fans that year to Mile High Stadium, home of the Denver Broncos, and was on pace to outdo that the following year before a players' strike canceled the season's final six weeks.
Murray's call for a players' meeting before last month's Shanghai Masters did not eventuate in any action, and the Scot himself later stated that he did not think a strike was necessary -- but that the issue of fixture scheduling needed to be addressed.
Kuchar, an accountant by training, said Thursday after his two-bogey, six-birdie opening 68 that he's ready to win a major because his career is progressing in the right order a Players Championship last year, a World Golf Championship earlier this year and now, maybe, the Masters.
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This happened in the NFL in 1989 and remained the situation until 1993 when the players association reorganized following a successful court battle with the NFL. After decertification, the players association would become a trade association that players could be a member of voluntarily (the current players association is not voluntary).
Minnesota and Tampa Bay, last year's American League champs, have also enjoyed various successes with low payrolls in recent years, providing plenty of fodder for a players union eager to jump on evidence that having the cash bar set by the free-spending Yankees doesn't wreak havoc on the rest of the league.
In order to ensure a variety of players in each group, a maximum of two players from the same continent can be in each group, and every group must have players from at least three continents.
At their presentation in Phoenix, summarizing research for a paper to be finished soon, they compared the world ranking of the top 200 players to a ranking of those same players' skill levels calculated using a statistical model they also devised, which simultaneously takes into account players' adjusted tournament scores and the difficulty of the courses.
Twenty players were separated by four shots going into the final round, and it stayed that way for a while, with a dozen players poised to make a run and seize control as the storm clouds gathered.
Minecraft supports a multiplayer mode allowing players to set up and manage a server that can host dozens or even hundreds of simultaneous players in a single, persistent virtual world (for an example of a popular Minecraft server, see Meepcraft).
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The Accies forward dispossessed Lee Cox, dribbled round a few players and cracked a left-foot shot into the net.
The system, though, was given a lukewarm reception by players, with a poll by world players' union Fifpro finding that 70% of club captains who had competed in the group stages of last season's Europa League had found no improvement in decision making.
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City welcome Premier League side Newcastle to Carrow Road on Saturday when Lambert will look to give a host of players a longer run-out than they have so far this summer.
"She's a very smart and fair-minded judge, " Jeffrey Kessler, a longtime players-association lawyer said during a recent interview.
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