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The Major League Baseball team based in Chicago, Illinois is called The Chicago Cubs. Owned by the Tribune Company and managed by Lou Piniella, it is also the charter member of its league. John McDonough is team's President and Jim Hendry is the General Manager.

The minor explosion of openly professional teams happened in 1870 due to success of Cincinnati Red Stockings. Now everyone wanted to defeat them to make their own presence felt. The National Association formed as the first professional league in 1871 to take care of it all. A color had to be chosen so Chicago adopted white. Pitcher Albert Spalding of the Boston Red Stockings, and first baseman Adrian "Cap" Anson of the Philadelphia Athletics joined Chicago after the 1875 season.

The White Stockings cruised through the National League's inaugural season of 1876 with its beefed-up squad. Chicago Cubs had some great seasons in the 1880s as they won 67, lost 17, for an all-time record .798 winning percentage. Chicago Cubs won the pennant in 1885 and Clarkson had a fair year. In spite of some good seasons, the Chicago Cubs have failed to win a World Series championship since 1908. They had a substantial lead in August, 1969 with Hall Of Famers Ernie Banks, Ferguson Jenkins and Billy Williams but all the confidence wilted under pressure. Chicago Cubs lost key games against New York Mets and staggered a shot at the postseason by 8 games (92-70).

They did very well as the 1984 NLCS started and Chicago Cubs needed to win only one game of the next three planned to be played in San Diego. Everything sort of crumbled after this and a critical error by Leon Durham helped the San Diego Padres win the game and head to the World Series. In 1989 Chicago Cubs again were in the NLCS, this time with the San Francisco Giants. They also managed to hold the lead at some point in their games but bullpen and managerial blunders ultimately led to three straight losses and the team's exit from the postseason.

Chicago Cubs made it into the playoffs as a wild card team in 1998. This was a 60+ HR season for them and it all happened due to Sammy Sosa and Kerry Wood's Rookie of the Year pitching performance. Atlanta Braves became their playoff opponent. The Chicago Cubs scored only four runs and the Braves easily swept them in 3 straight games. After 14 years, their first division title win came in 2003. It was also the team's first postseason series win since 1908. They beat Atlanta Braves and then took 3 games to 1 lead over the Florida Marlins. It seemed highly likely now that they would reach the World Series for the first time in 58 seasons.

In 2006, the Chicago Cubs came out of the gate hot but All-Star first baseman Derrek Lee’s injury sent the team into a tailspin of historic proportions. This time they managed to set a franchise record for offensive futility by scoring only 13 runs in 11 games.

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Boston Red Sox held a parade or in Boston mayor Thomas Menino words, they put up a "rolling rally" on Saturday, October 30, 2004. More than 3 million members of "Red Sox Nation" filled the streets of Boston to cheer as the team rode Duck Tours. Boston Red Sox became the Sports Illustrated’s Sportsmen of the Year.

Fenway Park, the home of the Boston Red Sox resounds with the echoes of great baseball players: Cy Young, Babe Ruth, Jimmy Collins, Duffy Lewis, Tris Speaker, Harry Hooper, Joe Cronin, Bobby Doerr, Johnny Pesky, Ted Williams, Jimmie Foxx, Carlton Fisk, Jim Rice and Carl Yastrzemski, to name just a few. It remains the same, much like it did the day it opened on April 20, 1912. The park is actually their second home. The Boston Americans became one of the charter members of the fledgling American League in 1901 and played ball at the Huntington Avenue Grounds, now a part of Northeastern University's campus. In 1904, Boston Globe owner General Charles Henry Taylor bought the team for his son John I. Taylor who changed the club's name to Red Sox in 1907. Tired of the leasing arrangement for the Avenue Grounds, Taylor decided to build a park for the team naming it Fenway Park because of its location in the Fenway section of Boston.

Edgar Renteria upgrades the champs and they've replaced two starting pitchers with three: Matt Clement, Wade Miller and one-time Fenway villain David Wells. Jason Varitek is back and it is highly likely that this team is better than its predecessors. GM Theo Epstein took a major step towards forming the team for 2007 season and has managed to rope in Japanese superstar pitcher Daisuke Matsuzaka. Jonathan Papelbon will be the starter for this season. Other additions are Keith Foulke, the star of World Series 2004, Hideki Okajima, the Japanese lefty reliever formerly of the Yomiuri Giants and lefty J.C. Romero from Puerto Rica. Reliever Joel Pineiro has signed a 1 year contract with them. Runelvys Hernandez relief pitcher, Joe McEwing infielder and Kerry Robinson outfielder has also signed minor league contract with the team. Mark Loretta was replaced by Houston and Alex Gonzalez has been replaced by Julio Lugo.

The hot favorites are Joel Piñeiro, Brendan Donnelly, Devern Hansack, J.C. Romero, Craig Hansen, Manny Delcarmen, Mike Timlin and Julian Tavarez, while on the other hand Jonathon Papelbon, the starter of the team will be resuming his role as closer. Boston Red Sox defeated MET in a recent match held on March, 7 scoring 9 on a grand slam as against 5 of MET.

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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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