Each time the one climbing made a hard move, the crowd hooted and cheered, and the others could only guess at what had occurred.
To make it harder, moving from the private to the public sector can be complicated because the recruitment processes are often very different.
They are led by people willing to carefully spell out their names and working hard to make smart moves now, so that when the tide reverses, they can be even more powerful engines of growth.
But Zeile's contract ($6 million for next year) and production (.361 slugging percentage) make him hard to move.
The country's creaking railways make it hard to move the stuff, as does the absence of a mechanism to negotiate bulk rail contracts.
The caucus rules around leadership ballots make it hard to move against a leader, even if that feels like a good idea in a moment of contagious panic.
A bank holiday could quickly follow, with the stock market and most local financial institutions shutting down, while new capital controls make it hard to move money in and out of the country.
Widely diverse permitting procedures in different states and the fact that many private companies control local fragments of the grid make it hard to move power over long distances, for example, from windy Iowa to users in Atlanta.
This year, after a slow start, EU members have finally begun to act, although a senior official warns that internal differences will make it hard to move beyond the latest sanctions.
