That was the first thing, to make the first team competitive and to challenge in the league.
Largely because management will keep this team competitive and because Cardinal Nation is a resilient and practical lot.
The Pistons went 30-52 this year and without a lower salary cap in place Gores will have to boost spending to make the team competitive.
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Before the season started, Eagle characterized the team as competitive, an assessment borne out by their early record.
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In the movie, the general manager of the Oakland Athletics baseball team, Billy Beane (played by Brad Pitt), struggles to put together a competitive team as the franchise faces financial challenges.
And now that the team is doing poorly, rather than reinvesting profits from previous seasons to help field a more competitive team, ownership has simply slashed payroll, in order to protect profits.
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They are now a very competitive team and I wish them all the very best.
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But Bothroyd says that no player can expect a starting spot in any competitive team.
Even the Blackhawks were atrocious for years due to a team whose primary competitive goal was to not spend money.
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On Saturday he said the national curriculum for primary schools in England would be rewritten with an explicit reference to competitive team sports.
The new owners have vowed to build up a competitive team able to rival the largest European teams in the prestigious Champions' League.
He revels in the fact his Citation X can fly faster than any of the other business jets that the competitive team owners have.
With the third-highest revenues in baseball (behind the Yankees and Red Sox), the club has the financial resources to ensure a competitive team going forward.
But Rossi is a different animal and Yamaha's chief mechanic, Jeremy Burgess, will be pushing as hard as he can as the team is so competitive.
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We have managed to turn it around while maintaining a reasonable amount of stability and retain a competitive team, which is something I'm quite proud of.
"The aim is to become a successful race team that is competitive even in the medium term, obviously at the beginning it will be tough, " he said.
It is when the team adopts the competitive spirit and wants to win for its own sake, for individuals and for each other, then you have something special.
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Does it add up to a competitive team?
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Bertarelli also has taken harsh criticism for tapping an unknown Spanish yacht club with virtually no chance of building a competitive team as the "challenger of record, " to avoid negotiating with stronger teams like Oracle.
Now, Collins will try to accomplish what Pat Fitzgerald has with the football team and build a competitive program despite the obstacles in place.
Mid-sized market (St Louis is the 17th largest MSA) with a history of success (2nd most World Series titles in baseball) and a team that is still competitive enough in the modern day to keep fans caring.
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They are currently the team to beat in the competitive world of castellers.
He's got a great basketball mind, competitive personality, team guy, a great guy.
This combined with legacy industry expertise from their team, creates an compelling competitive proposition, both from execution and pricing models for global merchants.
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The younger Evans has played in recent friendlies but has yet to feature in a competitive first-team game for the Old Trafford club.
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To keep the party exciting, Trigg plans games for kids (such as a best team cheer contest) and competitive BBQ throwdowns for the adults.
Hertha Berlin 30-year-old Jaroslav Drobny, who has two caps, spent time with Fulham and Ipswich Town without making a competitive first-team appearance before heading for the German Bundesliga club.
There is no question that the branding game is a lot more complicated than it was back when Don Draper and his team could knock out a competitive story line for a product in a matter of hours, if not minutes.
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But state high school associations, as Michigan did to allow Dompierre to keep playing, are waking up and creating rules that clearly spell out how a school can allow a special-needs student to be part of a team without creating an unusual competitive advantage.
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