cellar-dweller

Glass helped engineer the player lockout that cancelled the 1994 World Series, then cut his Royals payroll in half and turned a competitive team into a perennial cellar-dweller, while pocketing a sweet $20 million a year in profits.

Sam Pizzigati: A Game-Day 'Program' for the NFL Lockout Sam Pizzigati 2011

Glass helped engineer the player lockout that cancelled the 1994 World Series, then cut his Royals payroll in half and turned a competitive team into a perennial cellar-dweller, while pocketing a sweet $20 million a year in profits.

Sam Pizzigati: A Game-Day 'Program' for the NFL Lockout Sam Pizzigati 2011

The changes appeared to make an impact and the cellar-dweller days seemed to have been left behind.

Higgins Hockey Fantasy Index 2010-2011 Rob Higgins 2010

The changes appeared to make an impact and the cellar-dweller days seemed to have been left behind.

Higgins Hockey Fantasy Index 2010–2011 Rob Higgins 2010

The changes appeared to make an impact and the cellar-dweller days seemed to have been left behind.

Higgins Hockey Fantasy Index 2010–2011 Rob Higgins 2010

Imagine a scenario in which a talented player would be willing to attach himself over several seasons to a cellar-dweller franchise presumably having less value with the expectation that joining the team and contributing to its success would return greater economic gain, not to mention personal satisfaction, than any salary-only package.

But at Whom Would Owner-Players Hurl Insults? 2010

But according to this new study, the most-hated baseball team is actually the Cleveland Indians, who finished tied for last in 2009 with perennial cellar-dweller Kansas City.

Jon Lewin: Yankees Not the Most-Hated Team? Say It Isn't So! Jon Lewin 2010

In my mind, this "problem" is mitigated by the natural fact that a bad burrito is quite frankly better than a good anything else, so even America's cellar-dweller can't be that bad.

Simon Maxwell Apter: Wanted: One Good Burrito 2010

Only problem for the veteran ABC exec is Disney's ABC division, which under Iger's oversight has been an almost perennial ratings cellar-dweller among major networks.

Entertainment: Who's Going To Disneyland Next? 2008

This season, a typical interleague game has been a travesty of a mismatch — the equivalent of a World Series contender playing a cellar-dweller.

A League Of Its Own 2006