Sentences with phrase «away as a free agent»

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Erratic slugger Phil Plantier, who was signed away from Houston for $ 500,000, and former Padres first baseman Eddie Williams qualify as Detroit's only significant off - season free - agent additions — a rather admirable show of frugality for a franchise that in the last five years spent wildly on middling, past - their - prime free agents such as pitchers Tim Belcher and Mike Moore.

Although Los Angeles could offer Howard a five - year deal and higher increased pay from year to year compared to a team that signs him away as an unrestricted free agent, there are other, non-monetary advantages if Howard were to leave Lakerland.

Jermaine Pennant could walk away from Liverpool as a FREE AGENT at the end of the season.

That might put any chance of him making it over in 2019 less likely, too, as he would then be one season away from coming to MLB as a true free agent, capable of signing without restrictions.

This may be an opportunity for them to simply get paid better by Chicago, but as free agents, other GMs, hoping to make up to their fans for trading (or neglecting) away most of their teams» talented fan favorites, might jump on the opportunity to add a talented young left - winger.

► A giant caged gorilla is placed into a military cargo plane, accompanied by a man and a woman in handcuffs who argue with soldiers and an agent; the gorilla growls, snarls, and roars, showing large sharp teeth until he breaks apart the cage and several soldiers and government agents fire rifles and handguns to no avail as the animal roars and throws pieces of metal, striking some of the men, tosses several men against the bulkheads of the plane, and stands on the chest of an unconscious agent, who wakes up and shouts; a sliding military vehicle in the cargo hold pins the gorilla to a wall, the man and the woman in handcuffs break free and don parachutes, placing one on the agent and after the plane crashes in smoke and flames we see few bloody footprints of the gorilla leading away from the crash site (we do not see the bodies of the other passengers) and the agent has a cut on his forehead and the other man has lots of blood on the back of head and his T - shirt while the woman's face is scraped on one cheek and one side of her forehead.

And it's true — the image of the two men driving away from the site of all that violence and horror, suddenly, impossibly free in the airport security car that Rod, a proud TSA agent, has commandeered, makes for an ending as exhilarating, and as fantastical, as the golden elevator that breaks through the factory ceiling and flies over the city in the last scene in Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory.

As a free agent in the summer, he signed with the Golden State Warriors, who last season set an historic record with 73 wins and were one highly questionable suspension, one injury, and one unprecedented collapse away from repeating as NBA ChampionAs a free agent in the summer, he signed with the Golden State Warriors, who last season set an historic record with 73 wins and were one highly questionable suspension, one injury, and one unprecedented collapse away from repeating as NBA Championas NBA Champions.

In internet - savvy circles [Amanda Hocking] has been embraced as a figurehead of the digital publishing revolution that is seen as blowing up the traditional book world — or «legacy publishing» as its detractors call it — and replacing it with the ebook, where direct contact between author and reader, free of the mediation of agent and publishing house, is but a few clicks away.

Therefore providing an adequate number of workstations (one for every 50 agents), enough telephones with essential options such as call forwarding to the agents» cell, personal voice mail box and free long distance gives the agent a sense of belonging, not a «go away, stay at home, we do not have the facilities to accommodate you» message.