Farm Team

And farm-team leagues would keep the athletic-vocation inclined individuals OUT OF universities and colleges and open the seats for (deserving) academic-vocation inclined individuals. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Without that farm-team system to draw on, the FAA turned to recent training school graduates, controllers leaving military service and people with an aptitude for the profession to fill jobs at major TRACONs, according the FAA. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Is making the step from those sorts of programs to full-scale farm-team orchestras highly unlikely? ❋ Matthew Guerrieri (2007)

Five or six years ago he did a little bit of everything in the organization, but now an executive committee composed of his son, Thelma's son, and the traveling secretary, Howard Fox, who joined the Griffith family as a farm-team business manager in 1947, handles many of the day-to-day chores. ❋ Unknown (1981)

They have managed this boost with Anderson in goal and a bunch of farm-team players eager to take ice time that once went to NHLers cast off by the team before the trade deadline. ❋ ROY MACGREGOR (2011)

Cherry as recalcitrant school-boy, Cherry as farm-team bruiser, Cherry as loutish husband who leaves his wife and daughter to starve in a motel room while he drinks with teammates. ❋ Patrick White (2010)

Ms. Nassour's youth and energy may play a vital role in enhancing the relationships between the MassGOP and its farm-team of activists statewide. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Sugar is also a fascinating, meticulously detailed look at a side of baseball never before portrayed: the U.S. farm-team system (more like plantations), where many contemporary baseball stars rise up - or, in most cases, don't.

Votraw acknowledged that Ogdensburg sometimes feels like a farm-team diocese where new, young bishops come to train for bigger places. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The farm-team space, at the Temple Gallery a few blocks away, gives solo airings to many locals, including a recent lovely posthumous exhibition for lovable painter Owen Williams. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Petcka, a burly former Mets farm-team relief pitcher, weighs 205. ❋ Unknown (2008)

An MLB farm-team model would make explicit what big orchestras take for granted: that the talent pool they’re able to draw from is largely dependent on the existence of mid-level, local, what would be in effect double-A and triple-A orchestras. ❋ Matthew Guerrieri (2007)

Example 1: Rick: "Dude, how did you hook up with John's little sister? She was [jail bait] two days ago!" [Greyson]: "Had her on the [farm team] for 3 years" Example 2: Ted: "Man, why is that fat girl on your farm team?" Barney: "She just joined the volleyball team, in 4 years she'll probably be skinny" ❋ Husker56 (2011)

Even [Ol' Dirty] Pete, who had no standards whatsoever and routinely dated girls from all leagues of the farm team system, nearly lost his lunch when [bush league] Gretchen, who looked like she'd just raided an entire McDonald's and then been picked up by a tornado, bombarded with debris, and dropped on her face into a [briar patch], showed up at the pool in a G-string bikini. ❋ Nick D (2004)