1.   Our team was eliminated in the first round.

2.   Four teams will be eliminated in the preliminaries.

3.   Two teams were eliminated in the contraction of the baseball league.

4.   The team was eliminated in the preliminary round of the tournament.

5.   And when the U.S. team was eliminated, some of the players simply went back to the party and unleashed the mass destruction.

6.   Arizona owner Jerry Colangelo has vowed to fight the plan, which involves eliminating one team in each league and moving the Texas Rangers to the AL Central.

7.   As Martinez recalled, when the Dominican team was eliminated from competition, he made a promise.

8.   A lawyer close to the union said that in March the union proposed that before teams were eliminated they would be put up for sale or relocation.

9.   A plan to eliminate four teams was discussed in the meeting, Selig confirmed, but the final vote centered on two teams that would be named within weeks.

10.   A wealthy banker himself, Pohlad has said he wants to get out of baseball and has agreed to allow his team to be eliminated.