Who, of course, knowing that they had them over a barrel, were not playing ball.
Now that they're playing ball with business barons, do Marciniak and Walvius miss their days on the hardwood?
Maybe American Airlines won't go out of business by not playing ball with the complaint sites, but the small fry might have to pay attention.
He lived the life of a gangsta and had never dreamed Ji could get his family out of the ghetto the clean way, by playing ball.
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"That stoop was our hangout, it's where if we weren't playing ball or going to movies or playing records, that's where we hung out, " said Springer.
We called a few locations and most don't appear to be willing to make the trade, though the branch in the Mall at Millenia in Orlando, FL is playing ball.
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However, Tim Donoghue's Kissinger is not playing ball with the president's pitches, his outward containment a mask for his own desperation to salvage power from the wreckage of Nixon's fall.
But playing ball with the open source community can lead companies into a tangled web of licensing issues, some of which may be irreconcilable with the agenda of a for-profit company like Apple.
What he meant was that in order to even consider playing ball, professional partners like VCs have to trust that they will have the right interpersonal, reputational, and emotional environment to operate in.
Anthony Davis alone will make more money playing pro ball than the entire Louisville roster.
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The 1986 season brought the shot clock, which prevented superior teams from playing stall ball.
At age 26 he wrote to me and described his final at-bat playing AA ball (with Cal Ripken) at the Charlotte Orioles.
McCarthy spent the summer of 2002 playing rookie ball in Provo, Utah.
Meanwhile, Khawaja, playing the ball late from a high back-lift with hands low on the bat handle, consolidated intelligently as the skies darkened overhead.
But she's been playing tremendous ball here with lots of confidence.
Hull FC argued they could have been playing against 12 men when Fox stopped Briscoe playing the ball following a lightning break down the middle with 10 minutes left.
Research by the USGA has shown that U-shaped grooves allow top players to generate much more spin when playing the ball out of the rough, making the ball come to a quick stop on the green.
You do not have to be standing still over the ball when playing a shot, so striking the ball with a run-up is okay.
Everyone else involved in the game sequences were either actual ball players, or actors with organized ball playing experience.
Too often it's like playing nine-ball and effortlessly sinking the first seven, only for your opponent to nail the final two.
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Playing high school ball at powerhouse Mater Dei in Laguna Hills, Calif.
But Silva was eventually tempted into playing at a ball from left-armer James Franklin which was angled across him and Fleming made no mistake at slip.
It was a lovely build-up that created the chance as Parker slid Spector in down the right and he crossed to where Cole wanted the ball playing, about 15 yards out.
Robinho cut inside before playing a square ball to Kaka, who delivered a beautifully weighted first-time pass that Luis Fabiano, in an onside position, collected before easing past Claudio Bravo and slotting into an empty net.
As David Biderman pointed out in a fascinating article in the Wall Street Journal in 2010, although the typical NFL game lasts more than three hours, only 6 percent of the total eleven minutes is actually spent playing with the ball and attempting to move it forward.
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