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Philadelphia Phillies Tickets
Also known by their nicknames, The Phils, The Fightin' Phils or The Fightin's; the Philadelphia Phillies are a Major League Baseball team based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and is currently the only major league franchise operating there. Having the distinction of being the oldest continuous one-name, one-city franchise in all of American professional sports, they have played in the Eastern Division of the National League since 1969.In spite of claiming 31 Hall of Famers, the Philadelphia Phillies have the inglorious mark as the most losing franchise of any US major sports league (9,956) and is expected to become the first professional franchise to reach 10,000 losses soon.
Alfred Reach and Colonel John Rogers purchased the Worcester Brown Stockings of the National League in 1883 and by the 1890s, the newly renamed "Phillies" had solid records of 70 or more wins. Their first pennant was won in 1915 in their 33rd season due to a bullpen boost led by star pitcher Grover Cleveland Alexander.
A few remarkable players namely outfielder Cy Williams and Chuck Klein impressed all during the 20s and 30s winning NL Home Run Crowns and the NL Triple Crown, respectively.
During the 1940s, their name was changed to the Blue Jays but was reverted back later. Backup catcher Sal Fasano’s trade to the New York Yankees for minor league infielder Hector Made and third baseman David Bell’s trade to the Milwaukee Brewers for minor league pitcher Wilfrido Laureano were a few important changes and they responded well. They acquired Freddy Garcia from the Chicago White Sox for minor league pitchers Gavin Floyd (AAA in 2006) and Gio Gonzalez (AA in 2006) on Dec. 6, 2006. Wes Helms was also acquired as a free agent.
With a record of 66-65, The Philadelphia Phillies were trailing the San Diego Padres by a mere .5 games for the lead in the wild card race. Since they had captured and lost the wild card lead, they were tied with the Los Angeles Dodgers. With identical 82-74 records, both teams went on the road for the final six games; the Philadelphia Phillies to Washington and Florida, the Dodgers to Colorado and San Francisco. But the Philadelphia Phillies were later eliminated from playoff contention at two games out with one left to play.
The 2007 season will begin with a home opener on April 2nd against the Atlanta Braves and The Philadelphia Phillies intend to move their AAA affiliate to nearby Allentown, Pennsylvania in April 2008 where they will play with Lehigh Valley IronPigs, in a newly-constructed stadium, Lehigh County Ballpark, a 7,000-capacity stadium. This will bring the Phillies' AAA affiliate closer to the team's Philadelphia fan base while also moving the team into a new stadium.
With red and white being the team colors, their home uniform is white with red pinstripes and the road uniform is grey, both bear the script-lettered "Philadelphia Phillies" with stars dotting the "i"s across the chest, with the player name and number on the back. A single stylized "P" decorates the red hats.
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Before becoming a recording artist, Norah Jones was a lounge singer and played with numerous artists and bands including Wax Poetic and the Peter Malick Group. In 2001, Norah Jones performed quite frequently with guitarist Charlie Hunter. Norah Jones massively successful debut contemporary pop album ‘Come Away with Me’ came in February 2002 and sold over twenty million copies worldwide. It hit number one on the U.S. Billboard 200, with the single ‘Don't Know Why’ hitting number one on the Top 40 Adult Recurrents in 2003. The sensual, plaintive soul/folk/country tinged album received six Grammy Awards with Jones winning ‘Best New Artist’ and the album winning ‘Album of the Year’. ‘Don't Know Why’ was also performed on Sesame Street, as ‘Don't know why Y didn't come’, and thereby introducing the letter Y to the young audience.
Norah Jones also made a cameo appearance in the 2002 movie ‘Two Weeks Notice’ playing the piano and singing ‘Nearness of You’ at the fundraiser. In 2003 Norah Jones appeared on Outkast's Speakerbox. The Love Below album in a duet with André 3000. Although Jones’ sultry-yet-powerful vocal style is appreciated by all, her abilities as a jazz pianist have likewise been celebrated. Norah Jones appeared as a guest on Marian McPartland's Piano Jazz on NPR on January 19, 2003 and performed jazz standards including ‘September in the Rain’ and ‘I Can't Get Started’. Later, she again appeared with McPartland at the Tanglewood Jazz Festival and performed ‘Lover Man’ and ‘Walking My Baby Back Home’. Jones performed at the New Orleans Jazz Festival in both 2004 and 2005.
‘Feels like Home’ is Norah Jones second album that had more than a million sales in the first week of its U.S. release on February 9, 2004. It was all country music and Jones did a global tour for promotion with Handsome Band and backing singer Daru Oda. She was now included on the Time 100, Time magazine’s most influential people of 2004. Three Grammy Awards went to Norah Jones in 2005, including ‘Record of the Year’ and ‘Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals’ for her collaboration with Ray Charles on the song ‘Here We Go Again’. ‘Sunrise’ won her the ‘Best Female Pop Vocal Performance’. Later, Norah Jones appeared on the self-titled record by Amos Lee.
Norah Jones concert collaborated with Foo Fighters on their 2005 record ‘In Your Honor’, singing vocals with Dave Grohl on ‘Virginia Moon’ which was later nominated for ‘Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal’ in 2006.
Released by Blue Note Records, her third album, ‘Not Too Late’ came out on January 30, 2007 and became the 800th album to reach the top spot on the UK chart. It has sold more than 2.2 million copies worldwide. Jones wrote or co-wrote every song, and some of them are much darker than those on her previous albums. The song ‘My Dear Country’ is a political satire; she wrote it before the United States Presidential Election Day in 2004. ‘Thinking About You’, became Jones's first single to chart on the U.S. Hot 100 since ‘Don't Know Why’.
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They finished the 1974 season 84-76 emerging as real contenders and were placed second behind the eventual World Series champion Oakland Athletics. Texas Rangers are the only MLB team to finish above .500 after two consecutive 100-loss seasons. Now, Mike Hargrove was AL Rookie of the Year, Billy Martin was Manager of the Year, Jeff Burroughs was AL Most Valuable Player, and Ferguson Jenkins was the Comeback Player of the Year. After excellent seasons between 1977 and 79, Texas Rangers came very close in clinching a playoff spot in the first half of 1981 but Texas Rangers lost the game before the strike hit.
The losing streak lasted for 5 seasons after 1981 and a worse trade was made by getting future Brewers' manager Ned Yost from Milwaukee Brewers for multi-Gold Glove catcher Jim Sundberg.
Texas Rangers longest-serving manager has been Bobby Valentine at 1,186 games. He worked hard in the late 1980s and 1990s as talent infiltrated the team. 1986 season wins were greatly due to Rookies Ruben Sierra and Pete Incaviglia but the Rangers still finished 5 games behind division-winning California. Star Ryan was able to reach his 5,000th strikeout, 300th win and throw his sixth and seventh no-hitters with the Rangers. Fans has high expectations of Texas Rangers that had powerful batters like Juan González, Rubén Sierra, Julio Franco, Harold Baines, and Rafael Palmeiro and a pitching staff that included Charlie Hough, Bobby Witt, Kevin Brown, and Kenny Rogers.
During the 1992 season Valentine was sacked due to the consistent average performance. Catcher Geno Petralli was one of the team’s most popular players during this time.
The 1987 team the only team in Major League history to carry four catchers on their roster for the entire season. With Kevin Kennedy being the manager, the 1993 squad was in serious contention for a playoff berth into mid-September. The 1994 season featured a perfect game by Kenny Rogers.
Though, the new manager, Johnny Oates led the Texas Rangers to an ALL West division title in 1996, they eventually lost to the New York Yankees. The Texas Rangers 2006 season ended with a disappointing 80-82 record and a third-place finish in the American League West.
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Following the policy ‘What happens in Camelot, stays in Camelot’, the five knights gather in Camelot. God contacts them and tells them to locate the Holy Grail. Along the way they meet some very rude French Taunters. They split up shortly afterwards with Sir Robin and his minstrels following King Arthur and Patsy into a ‘dark and very expensive forest’ where they are separated. King Arthur then meets the Knights Who Say Ni and on their demand, he and Patsy find a shrubbery. The Knights do accept it, but now they want him to create a Broadway musical. By now the King has given up hope but the Lady of the Lake appears and tells him that he and the Knights were in a Broadway Musical all along. He just needs to find the Grail and marry someone.
The King reunited with his Knights meets Tim the Enchanter who warns them of the danger of an evil rabbit. The rabbit eventually bites a knight's head off and Arthur knocks it down a nearby hill with the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch. This reveals a Frenchman who in reality is using the rabbit as a puppet and a large stone block showing a combination of letters and numbers is also revealed. Not knowing what to do, Arthur asks God for one final bit of help and he shows the king that the letters and numbers refer to a seat number in the audience. The grail is found under the seat and the person sitting in the seat is rewarded. Arthur now marries the Lady of the Lake, Lancelot marries Herbert, and Sir Robin decides to take up writing Broadway musicals.
Several sections call for improvisation on the part of the actors and they use current events or local culture especially during the French Taunter scene in Act I, during the Knights of Ni scene, and during the peasant scene at end of the show.
Out of the fourteen Tony Award nominations, the three Monty Pythons Spamalot were won include Best Musical, Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical (Sara Ramirez) and Best Direction of a Musical. Monty Python's Spamalots Best Musical award is advertised at the Shubert Theatre.
These Tony Awards led to a minor change to the song ‘The Diva's Lament’. The line ‘I've no Grammy, no reward/I've no Tony Award’ became ‘My Tony Award/won't keep me out of Betty Ford's’. It became ‘All our Tony Awards/won't keep me out of Betty Ford's’ when Kennedy took over for Ramirez. Glenn sings ‘All our goddamn awards’ in the touring production that has garnered Boston's Elliot Norton Award for Outstanding Visiting Production.
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There were great expectations for Houston Astros when the 2004 campaign began. It started with so much promise that it hurt when it turned into a mediocre effort that resulted in a .500 record at the All-Star breakheld at Minute Maid Park. This led to the dismissal of manager Jimy Williams. Phil Garner took over the managerial duties three weeks after, even though many people were against him. But the Houston Astros really responded to him. This was when the Houston Astros began an unprecedented 36-10 run that leapfrogged them over five teams en route to the National League Wild Card. They jumped up high, snatched up the opportunity and won their first postseason series in franchise history when they topped the Atlanta Braves, three games to two, in the Division Series. These were trying times as the team was decimated by injuries leaving them with only two proven starters -- Roy Oswalt and Roger Clemens (who postponed his retirement for one year). A slew of players made valiant efforts to lead the Houston Astros to the seventh game of the National League Championship Series. This was truly the Houston Astros' historic run and it ended with a 5-2 Game 7 loss to the Cardinals, one game shy of their first-ever World Series berth. Who knows what would have happened if they had won the game this time.
Roger Clemens of Houston Astros said that his decision to put off retirement again was "very heart-wrenching". He said this when he picked up his seventh Cy Young Award at the annual New York baseball dinner Sunday night. Then, turning to his former manager with the Yankees, Joe Torre, he practically apologized.
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