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New York Yankees
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New York Yankees
The New York Yankees are a professional baseball team based in the borough of the Bronx, in New York City, New York and are a member of the Eastern Division of Major League Baseball's American League. One of the American League's eight charter franchises, the club was founded in Baltimore, Maryland in 1901 as the Baltimore Orioles, and moved to New York City in 1903, becoming known as the New York Highlanders before being officially renamed the "Yankees" in 1913. From 1923 to 2008, the Yankees' home was Yankee Stadium. In 2009, they are scheduled to move into a new stadium, also to be called "Yankee Stadium". The franchise leads Major League Baseball in both revenue and titles, with 26 World Series championships and 39 American League Pennants. They have more championships than any other North American franchise in professional sports history, passing the 24 Stanley Cup championships by the Montreal Canadiens in 1999.
At the end of 1900, Western League president Ban Johnson reorganized the league, adding teams in three Eastern cities, which formed the American League. Plans to put a team in New York City were blocked by the National League's New York Giants, who had enough political power to keep the AL out. Instead, a team was put in Baltimore, Maryland, a city which had been abandoned when the NL contracted from 12 to 8 teams in 1900.
The team, now known as the Baltimore Orioles, began playing in 1901, and were managed and owned in part by John McGraw. During the 1902 season, McGraw feuded with Johnson, and secretly jumped to the Giants. In the middle of the season, the Giants, aided and abetted by McGraw, gained controlling interest of the Orioles and began raiding it for players, until the AL stepped in and took control of the team. In January 1903, a "peace conference" was held between the two leagues to settle disputes and try to coexist. One of the results of the conference was that the NL agreed to let the "junior circuit" establish a franchise in New York. The Orioles' new owners, Frank J. Farrell and William S. Devery, found a ballpark location not blocked by the Giants, and Baltimore's team moved to New York.
The team's new ballpark, Hilltop Park (formally known as "American League Park"), was constructed in northern Manhattan at one of the island's highest points between 165th and 168th Streets, just a few blocks away from the much larger Polo Grounds. The team came to be known as the New York Highlanders for two reasons: it was a reference to the team's elevated location, and also to the noted British military unit The Gordon Highlanders, which coincided with the team's president, Joseph Gordon. As was common with all members of the American League, the team was also referred to as the New York Americans. The club was also being called the New York Yankees in newspapers as early as 1904.
The most success the Highlanders achieved was finishing second in 1904, 1906 and 1910, 1904 being the closest they would come to winning the AL pennant. That year, they would lose the deciding game on the last day of the season to the Boston Americans, who would later become the Boston Red Sox. This had much historical significance, as the Highlanders' role in the pennant race caused the Giants to announce that they would not play in the World Series against the AL pennant winner. The World Series would not be skipped again for another 90 years, when a strike truncated the entire 1994 season. It would also be the last time Boston would beat New York in a pennant-deciding game for a full century (2004). 1904 was also the year that pitcher Jack Chesbro set the single-season wins record at 41, which still stands. (Under current playing practices, this is an unbreakable record).
The Polo Grounds burned down in 1911 and the Highlanders allowed the Giants to play in Hilltop Park during reconstruction. Relations between the two teams warmed, and the Highlanders would move into the newly rebuilt Polo Grounds in 1913. Now playing on the Harlem River, a far cry from their high-altitude home, the name "Highlanders" no longer applied, and fell into disuse among the press. The media had already been calling the team the "Yankees" (a synonym for "Americans", the team being an American League franchise) more and more frequently, and in 1913 the team became known exclusively as the New York Yankees.
By the mid 1910s, owners Farrell and Devery had become estranged and were both in dire need of money. At the start of 1915, they sold the team to Colonel Jacob Ruppert and Captain Tillinghast L'Hommedieu Huston. Ruppert inherited a brewery fortune, providing the Yankees with an owner who possessed deep pockets and a willingness to dig into them to produce a winning team. This would lead the team to more success and prestige than Ruppert could ever have envisioned.
In the years around 1920, the Yankees, the Red Sox, and the Chicago White Sox had a détente. Their actions, which antagonized Ban Johnson, garnered them the nickname the "Insurrectos". This détente paid off well for the Yankees as they enlarged their payroll. Most new players who would later contribute to the team's success came from the Red Sox, whose owner, Harry Frazee, was trading them players for large sums of money. Pitcher-turned-outfielder Babe Ruth was the most talented of all the acquisitions from Boston, and the outcome of the trade would haunt the Red Sox for the next 86 years, a span in which the team did not win a single Championship. The Red Sox often found themselves eliminated from the playoff hunt as a result of the Yankees' success. This phenomenon eventually became known as the Curse of the Bambino as the failure of the Red Sox and the success of the Yankees seemed almost supernatural, and seemed to stem from that one trade.
Ruth's multitude of home runs proved so popular that the Yankees began drawing more people than their landlords, the Giants. In 1921, when the Yankees made their first World Series appearance against the Giants, the Yankees were told to move out of the Polo Grounds after the 1922 season. Giants manager John McGraw was said to have commented that the Yankees should "move to some out-of-the-way place, like Queens", but they instead broke ground for a new ballpark in the Bronx, right across the Harlem River from the Polo Grounds. In 1922, the Yankees returned to the World Series again, and were dealt a second defeat at the hands of the Giants. Important newcomers in this period were manager Miller Huggins and general manager Ed Barrow. The hiring of Huggins by Ruppert would cause a break between the owners that eventually led to Ruppert buying Huston out in 1923.
In 1923, the Yankees moved to their new home, Yankee Stadium. It was the first triple-deck venue in baseball and seated an astounding 58,000 people. In the first game at Yankee Stadium, Babe Ruth hit a home run, which was fitting as his home runs and drawing power paid for the stadium, giving it its nickname of "The House That Ruth Built". At the end of the year, the Yankees faced the Giants for the third straight year in the World Series, and finally triumphed for their first championship. Prior to that point, the Giants had been the city's icon and dominant team. From 1923 onward, the Yankees would assume that role, and the Giants would eventually transfer out of the city.
In the 1927 season, the Yankees featured a lineup that become known as "Murderers' Row", and some consider this team to be the best in the history of baseball (though similar claims have been made for other Yankee squads, notably those of 1939, 1961 and 1998). The Yankees won a then-AL record 110 games with only 44 losses, and swept the Pittsburgh Pirates in the 1927 World Series. Ruth's home run total of 60 in 1927 set a single-season home run record that would stand for 34 years. Meanwhile, first baseman Lou Gehrig had his first big season, batting .373 with 47 home runs and 175 RBIs, beating Ruth's single-season RBI mark (171 in 1921). In the next three years, the Philadelphia Athletics would take the AL pennant each season and win two world championships.
In 1931, Joe McCarthy came in as manager, and brought the Yankees back to the top of the AL. They swept the Chicago Cubs in the 1932 World Series, and brought the team's streak of consecutive World Series game wins to 12. This series was made famous by Babe Ruth's "Called Shot" in game three of the series at Wrigley Field. A fitting "swan song" to his illustrious postseason career, Ruth would leave the Yankees to join the NL's Boston Braves after 1934, and would never see the postseason again.
With Ruth retired, Gehrig finally had a chance to take center stage, but it was only one year before a new titan appeared: Joe DiMaggio. The team would win an unprecedented four straight World Series titles from 1936 to 1939. For most of 1939, however, they had to do it without Gehrig, who was forced to retire because of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. The Yankees declared July 4, 1939 to be "Lou Gehrig Day", on which they retired his number 4 (the first retired number in baseball). Gehrig also made a famous speech in which he declared himself to be "the luckiest man on the face of the earth". He died two years later.
Often described as the last year of the "Golden Era" before World War II and other realities intervened, 1941 was a thrilling year as America watched two major events unfold: Ted Williams of the Red Sox hunting for the elusive .400 batting average and Joe DiMaggio getting hits in consecutive ballgames. By the end of his hitting streak, DiMaggio hit in 56 consecutive games, the current major league record.
Two months and one day after the Yankees beat the Brooklyn Dodgers in the 1941 World Series, the Pearl Harbor attacks occurred, and many of the best players, including DiMaggio himself, went off to serve in the military. The Yankees still managed to pull out a win against the St. Louis Cardinals in the 1943 World Series. After a few slumping seasons, McCarthy was fired early in 1946. A few interim managers later, Bucky Harris took the job, righting the ship and taking the Yankees to a hard fought series victory against the Dodgers.
Despite finishing only three games behind the first place Cleveland Indians in 1948, Harris was released in favor of Casey Stengel, who had a reputation of being a clown and managing bad teams. His tenure as Yankee field manager, however, was marked with success. The "underdog" Yankees came from behind to catch and surprise the then-powerful Red Sox on the last two days of the 1949 season, a face off that fueled the beginning of the modern Yankees-Red Sox rivalry. By this time, however, DiMaggio's career was winding down, and the "Yankee Clipper" retired after the 1951 season. This year also marked the arrival of the "Oklahoma Kid", Mickey Mantle, who was one of several new stars that would fill the gap.
Bettering the clubs managed by Joe McCarthy, the Yankees won the world series five consecutive times from (1949-1953) under Stengel, which continues to be the major league record. Led by players like center fielder Mickey Mantle, pitcher Whitey Ford, and catcher Yogi Berra, Stengel's teams won ten pennants and seven World Series titles in his twelve seasons as the Yankees manager. Casey Stengel was also a master at publicity for the team and for himself, even landing a cover story in Time magazine in 1955.
In 1954, the Yankees won over 100 games, but the Indians took the pennant with an AL record 111 wins. In 1955, the Dodgers finally beat the Yankees in the World Series, after five previous Series losses to the them, but the Yankees came back strong the next year. On October 8, 1956, in Game Five of the 1956 World Series against the Dodgers, pitcher Don Larsen threw the only perfect game in World Series history, which also remains the only no-hitter of any kind to be pitched in postseason play.
The Yankees lost the 1957 World Series to the Milwaukee Braves. Following the Series, the New York Giants and the Brooklyn Dodgers left for California, leaving the Yankees as New York's only baseball team. In the 1958 World Series, the Yankees got their revenge against the Braves, and became the second team to win the Series after being down three games to one. For the decade, the Yankees won six World Series championships ('50, 51, '52, '53, '56, '58) and eight American League pennants (those six plus '55 and '57). Led by Mantle, Ford, Berra, Elston Howard (the Yankees' first African-American player), and the newly acquired Roger Maris, the Yankees entered the 1960s seeking to replicate their success of the 1950s.
Arnold Johnson, owner of the Kansas City Athletics, was a longtime business associate of then-Yankees co-owners Del Webb and Dan Topping. Because of this "special relationship" with the Yankees, he traded them young players for cash and aging veterans. Invariably, these trades ended up being heavily tilted in the Yankees' favor, leading to accusations that the Athletics were little more than a Yankee farm team at the major league level. Ironically, Kansas City had been home to the Yankees' top farm team for almost 20 years before the Athletics moved there from Philadelphia in 1954.
In 1960, Charles O. Finley purchased the Athletics, and put a cease to the trades. However, before this, the Yankees strengthened their supply of future prospects, which included a young outfielder named Roger Maris. In 1960, Maris led the league in slugging percentage, RBIs, and extra base hits. He also finished second in home runs (one behind Mantle) and total bases, and won a Gold Glove, which gathered him enough votes for the American League MVP award.
The year of 1961 would prove to be one of the most memorable in Yankee history. Throughout the summer, Mantle and Maris hit home runs at a fast pace, with the media calling them the "M&M Boys". Ultimately, a severe hip infection forced Mantle to leave the lineup and drop out of the race. Maris continued though, and on October 1, the last day of the season, he hit home run number 61, surpassing Babe Ruth's single season home run record of 60. However, MLB Commissioner Ford Frick (who, as it was discovered later, had ghostwritten for Babe Ruth during his career) decreed that since Maris had played in a 162-game season and Ruth had only played in one with 154, two separate records would be kept. It would be 30 years before the dual record would be done away with, and Maris would hold the record alone until Mark McGwire broke it in 1998. Maris still holds the American League record.
The Yankees won the pennant with a 109–53 record and went on to defeat the Cincinnati Reds in the 1961 World Series. The team finished the year with a then record 240 home runs. In 1962, the sports scene in New York changed when the National League expanded to include a new team, the New York Mets in nearby Flushing, Queens. The Mets lost a record 120 games while the Yankees would win the 1962 World Series, their tenth in the past sixteen years, defeating the San Francisco Giants in seven games.
The Yankees also reached the 1963 World Series, but were swept by the Los Angeles Dodgers. After the season, Yogi Berra, who had just retired from playing, took over managerial duties. The aging Yankees returned the next year for a fifth straight World Series, but were beaten in seven games by the St. Louis Cardinals. It would be the Yankees last World Series appearance until 1976.
After the 1964 season, CBS purchased 80% of the Yankees from Topping and Webb for $11.2 million. With the new ownership, the team began to decline. In fact, the Yankees finished in the second division for the first time in 40 years in 1965. This was worsened by the introduction of the major league amateur draft that year, which meant that the Yankees could no longer sign any player they wanted. Webb sold his 10 percent stake to CBS before the year was over.
In 1966, the Yankees finished last in the AL for the first time since 1912. After they finished next-to-last in the 1967 season, the team's fortunes improved somewhat, but they would not become serious contenders again until 1974. Various reasons have been given for the decline, but the single biggest one was the Yankees' inability to replace their aging superstars with new ones, as they had consistently done in the previous five decades. Topping and Webb had owned the Yankees for 20 years, missing the World Series only five times and going 10-5 in the ones they did get to. By contrast, the CBS-owned teams never went to the World Series.
During this period, the Yankees also lost two of their signature broadcasters. The legendary "Voice of the Yankees," Mel Allen, was fired after the 1964 season, supposedly due to cost-cutting measures by long time broadcast sponsor Ballantine Beer. Two years later, Red Barber was let go. Some say this was because of his on-air mention of a paltry showing of 413 fans at a then 67,000-seat Yankee Stadium during a game against the Chicago White Sox. Sports biographer David J. Halberstam also noted Barber's less-than-happy relationship with Joe Garagiola and Phil Rizzuto, two ex-major leaguers with whom he shared the booth.
A group of investors, led by Cleveland-based shipbuilder George Steinbrenner, purchased the club from CBS on January 3, 1973 for $8.7 million. Mike Burke stayed on as president until he quit in April. Within a year, Steinbrenner bought out most of his other partners and became the team's principal owner, although Burke continued to hold a minority share into the 1980s.
One of Steinbrenner's major goals was to repair the Stadium, which had greatly deteriorated by the late 1960s. CBS initially suggested renovations, but the team would have needed to play elsewhere, and the Mets refused to open their home, Shea Stadium, to the Yankees. A new stadium in the Meadowlands, across the Hudson River in New Jersey, was also suggested. Finally, in mid-1972, Mayor John Lindsay stepped in. The city bought the Stadium and began an extensive two-year renovation period. Since the city also owned Shea, the Mets had to allow the Yankees to play two seasons there. The renovations modernized the look of the stadium and reconfigured some of the seating.
After the 1976 campaign, Steinbrenner added star Oakland outfielder Reggie Jackson to his roster. During spring training of 1977, Jackson alienated his teammates with controversial remarks about the Yankees captain, catcher Thurman Munson. He also had bad blood with manager Billy Martin, who had managed the Detroit Tigers when Jackson's Athletics defeated them in the 1972 playoffs. Jackson, Martin, and Steinbrenner repeatedly feuded with each other throughout the life of Jackson's five-year contract. Martin would be hired and fired by Steinbrenner five times over the next 13 years. This conflict, combined with the extremely rowdy Yankees fans of the late 1970s and the bad conditions of the Bronx, led to the Yankee organization and stadium being referred to as the "Bronx Zoo." Despite the turmoil, Jackson proved his worth in the 1977 World Series, when he hit four home runs on four consecutive pitches from four different Dodgers' pitchers, three of them in the same game. Jackson's great performance in the postseason earned him the Series MVP Award, as well as the nickname "Mr. October" (which had originally been given to Jackson by Munson in a derisive manner).
Throughout the late 1970s, the race for the pennant often came to a close competition between the Yankees and the Red Sox. In the 1950s and early 1960s, the Yankees had been dominant while the Red Sox were largely a non-factor. However, in the late 1960s and early 1970s, the Yankees were mired in the second division and the Red Sox led the league. The late 1970s was one of the first times that the two were contending simultaneously and locked in a close fight, and every game between the two suddenly became important.
On July 14, 1978, the Yankees were 14½ games behind the Red Sox. The team went on a long winning streak, and by the time they met Boston for a pivotal four-game series at Fenway Park in early September, they were only four games behind the Red Sox. The Yankees swept the Red Sox in what became known as the "Boston Massacre", winning the games 15–3, 13–2, 7–0, and 7–4. The third game was a shutout pitched by "Louisiana Lightning" Ron Guidry, who would lead the majors with nine shutouts, a 25–3 record, and a 1.74 ERA. Guidry also finished with 248 strikeouts, but Nolan Ryan's 260 strikeouts with the California Angels deprived Guidry of the pitching Triple Crown.
On the last day of the season, the two clubs finished in a tie for first place in the AL East, and a one-game playoff (the 163rd game of the regular season) was held at Fenway Park to decide who would go on to the playoffs. With Guidry matched up against former Yankee Mike Torrez, the Red Sox took an early 2–0 lead. In the seventh inning, light-hitting Yankee shortstop Bucky Dent drove a three-run home run over the "Green Monster" (Fenway Park's famed left field wall), putting the Yankees up 3–2. Reggie Jackson's solo home run in the following inning sealed the eventual 5–4 win that gave the Yankees their 100th win of the season and their third straight AL East title. Guidry was also awarded with his 25th win of the season. For Red Sox fans, the outcome of this game was one of several emotional moments in their team's history that had them wondering if the Red Sox were under some kind of Yankee curse.
After beating the Kansas City Royals for the third consecutive year in the ALCS, the Yankees faced the Dodgers again in the World Series. They lost the first two games on the West Coast, but then came home to win all three games at Yankee Stadium. The team then would wrap up their 22nd World Championship in Game 6 in Los Angeles.
Changes occurred during the 1979 season. Former Cy Young Award-winning closer Sparky Lyle was traded to the Texas Rangers for several players, including Dave Righetti. Tommy John was acquired from the Dodgers and Luis Tiant from the hated Red Sox to bolster the pitching staff. During the season, Bob Lemon was replaced by Billy Martin.
The 1970s ended on a tragic note for the Yankees. On August 2, 1979, Thurman Munson died after crashing his private plane while practicing "Touch and Go" landings. Four days later, the entire team flew out to Canton, Ohio for the funeral, despite having a game later that day against the Orioles. Martin adamantly stated that the funeral was more important, and that he did not care if they made it back in time. Bobby Murcer, a close friend of Munson's, was chosen to give the eulogy at his funeral. In a nationally televised and emotional game, Murcer used Munson's bat (which he gave to his fallen friend's wife after the game), and drove in all five of the team's runs in a dramatic 5-4 walk-off victory. Before the game, Munson's locker sat empty except for his catching gear, a sad reminder for his teammates. His locker, labeled with his number 15, forever remained empty in the Yankee clubhouse as a permanent memorial. The number 15 has also been retired by the team.
The 1980 season brought more changes to the Yankees. Billy Martin was fired once again and Dick Howser took his place. Chris Chambliss was traded to the Toronto Blue Jays for catcher Rick Cerone. Thanks to Howser's no-nonsense attitude, Reggie Jackson hit .300 for the only time in his career with 41 homers, and finished 2nd in the MVP voting to Kansas City's George Brett. The Yankees won 103 games and the AL East by three games over the 100-win Baltimore Orioles, but were swept by the Royals in the 1980 ALCS.
After the season ended, the Yankees signed Dave Winfield to a ten-year contract. The Yankees also fired Howser and replaced him with Gene Michael. Under Michael, the Yankees led the AL East before a strike hit in June of 1981. In the second half of the season, the Yankees struggled under Bob Lemon, who replaced Michael. Thanks to the split-season playoff format, the Yankees faced the second-half winner Milwaukee Brewers in the special 1981 American League Division Series. After narrowly defeating Milwaukee in five games, they breezed through Billy Martin and the Oakland Athletics in a three-game ALCS. In the 1981 World Series, the Yankees got off to a hot start by winning the first two games against the Los Angeles Dodgers. But the Dodgers fought back and stunned the Yankees by winning the next four games to clinch their first World Series title since 1965.
Following the team's loss to the Dodgers in the 1981 World Series, the Yankees had their longest absence from the playoffs since 1921. The Yankees of the 1980s, led by All-Star first baseman Don Mattingly, had the most total wins of any major league team but failed to win a World Series (the first such team since the 1910s). They consistently had a powerful offense; Mattingly at various times was teammate to Dave Winfield, Rickey Henderson, Mike Pagliarulo, Steve Sax, and Jesse Barfield, but the starting pitching rarely matched the team's performance at the plate. After posting a 22–6 record in 1985, arm problems caught up with Ron Guidry, and his performance declined in the next three years.
The team came close to winning the AL East in 1985 and 1986, finishing second to the Toronto Blue Jays and Boston Red Sox respectively, but fell to fourth place in 1987 and fifth in 1988, despite having mid-season leads in the AL East standings both years. Despite their lack of championships and playoff appearances the Yankees posted the highest winning percentage of all MLB teams during the 1980s.
By the end of the decade, the Yankees' offense was also on the decline. Henderson and Pagliarulo had departed by the middle of 1989, while back problems hampered both Winfield (who missed the entire '89 season) and Mattingly (who missed almost the entire second half of 1990). Winfield's tenure with the team ended when he was dealt to the Angels. From 1989 to 1992, the team had a losing record, spending significant money on free-agents and draft picks who did not live up to expectations. In 1990, the Yankees had the worst record in the American League, and their first last-place finish since 1966.
On July 1, 1990, pitcher Andy Hawkins became the first Yankee ever to lose despite throwing a no-hitter. Third baseman Mike Blowers committed an error, followed by two walks and an error by the left fielder Jim Leyritz with the bases loaded, scoring all three runners and the batter. The 4–0 loss to the Chicago White Sox was the largest margin of any no-hitter loss in the 20th century. Ironically, the Yankees (and Hawkins) were no-hit for six innings in a rain-shortened game against the White Sox eleven days later.
The poor showings in the 1980s and 1990s would soon change. Steinbrenner hired Howard Spira to uncover damaging information on Winfield and was subsequently suspended from day-to-day team operations by Commissioner Fay Vincent when the plot was revealed. This turn of events allowed management to implement a coherent acquisition/development program without owner interference. General Manager Gene Michael, along with manager Buck Showalter, shifted the club's emphasis from high-priced acquisitions to developing talent through the farm system. This new philosophy developed key players such as outfielder Bernie Williams, shortstop Derek Jeter, catcher Jorge Posada, and pitchers Andy Pettitte and Mariano Rivera. The first significant success came in 1994, when the Yankees had the best record in the AL. However, the season was cut short by the 1994 Major League Baseball strike.
A year later, the team qualified for the playoffs in the new wild card slot, and were eliminated in a memorable 1995 American League Division Series against the Seattle Mariners, where the Yankees won the first two games at home and dropped the next three in Seattle. Mattingly, suffering greatly from his back injury, retired after the 1995 season. He had the unfortunate distinction of beginning and ending his career on years bookended by Yankee World Series appearances (1981 and 1996). The 1994 strike ended Mattingly's best chance for a World Series title and contributed to Manager Buck Showalter's departure the following year.
Coincidentally, the last time the Yankees made it to the playoffs before 1995 happened the last time a significant work stoppage occurred.
After the 1995 season, Steinbrenner replaced Showalter with Joe Torre. Torre had a mediocre run as a manager in the National League, and the choice was initially derided ("Clueless Joe" ran the headline on the New York Post). However, his calm demeanor proved to be a good fit, and his tenure was the longest under George Steinbrenner's ownership.
In 1996 the Yankees won their first AL East title in 15 years. They defeated the Texas Rangers in the ALDS, and in the ALCS beat the Baltimore Orioles in five games, which included a notable fan interference by young Jeffrey Maier was called as a home run for the Yankees. In the World Series the team rebounded from an 0-2 series deficit and defeated the defending champion Atlanta Braves, ending an 18-year championship drought. Shortstop Derek Jeter was named Rookie of the Year. In 1997, the Yankees lost the 1997 ALDS to the Cleveland Indians in five games. Watson stepped down as GM, and was replaced by assistant GM Brian Cashman.
The 1998 Yankees are widely acknowledged to be one of the greatest teams in baseball history, compiling a then-AL record 114 regular season wins against just 48 losses and then sweeping the San Diego Padres in the 1998 World Series. Their 125 combined regular and post season wins is a major league record. On May 17, 1998, David Wells pitched a perfect game against the Minnesota Twins at Yankee Stadium. On July 18, 1999, which was "Yogi Berra Day" at the Stadium, David Cone pitched a perfect game against the Montréal Expos. The ALCS was the Yankees' first meeting with the Red Sox in a post-season series. The Yankees would go on to win the 1999 World Series giving the 1998–1999 Yankees a 22–3 record (including four series sweeps) in six consecutive post-season series.
In 2000, the Yankees faced their crosstown rival New York Mets in the first Subway Series World Series since 1956. The Yankees won the series in 5 games, but a loss in Game 3 snapped their streak of World Series wins at 14, surpassing the club's previous record of 12 (in 1927, 1928, and 1932). The Yankees are the last major league team to repeat as World Series champions and after the 2000 season they joined the Yankee teams of 1936–1939 and 1949–1953, as well as the 1972–1974 Oakland Athletics as the only teams to win at least three consecutive World Series.
In aftermath of the September 11 attacks, the Yankees defeated the Oakland A's in the ALDS, and the Seattle Mariners in the ALCS. By winning the pennant for a fourth straight year, the 1998–2001 Yankees joined the 1921–1924 New York Giants, and the Yankee teams of '36–'39, '49–'53, '55–'58 and '60–'64 as the only teams to win at least four straight pennants. The Yankees won eleven consecutive postseason series in this four-year period. In the World Series against the Arizona Diamondbacks, the home team won every game and the series concluded when Yankee closer Mariano Rivera uncharacteristically lost the lead - and the Series - in the bottom of the ninth inning of Game 7.
A vastly revamped Yankees team finished the 2002 season with an AL best record of 103–58. The season was highlighted by Alfonso Soriano becoming the first second baseman ever to hit 30 home runs and steal 30 bases in a season. In the ALDS the Yankees lost to the Anaheim Angels in four games. In 2003, the Yankees again had the best league record (101-61), highlighted by Roger Clemens' 300th win and 4000th strikeout. In the ALCS, they defeated the Boston Red Sox in a dramatic seven game series, which featured a bench-clearing incident in Game 3 and a series-ending walk-off home run by Aaron Boone in the bottom of the 11th inning of Game 7. In the World Series the Yankees lost in 6 games to the Florida Marlins.
In 2004, the Yankees acquired Alex Rodriguez, who moved to third base from his usual shortstop position to accommodate Derek Jeter. In the ALCS, the Yankees met the Boston Red Sox again, and became the first team in professional baseball history, and only the third team in North American pro sports history, to lose a best-of-seven series after taking a 3-0 series lead. In 2005 Alex Rodriguez won the American League MVP award, becoming the first Yankee to win the award since Don Mattingly in 1985. The Yankees again won the AL East by virtue of a tiebreaker but lost ALDS in five games to the Los Angeles Angels. The 2006 season was highlighted by a 5 game series sweep of the Red Sox at Fenway Park (sometimes referred to as the "Second Boston Massacre"), outscoring the Red Sox 49-26. Despite winning the AL East for the ninth consecutive year, the Yankees lost again in the ALDS, this time to the Detroit Tigers. After the ALDS was over, tragedy struck when pitcher Cory Lidle died when his plane crashed into a highrise apartment building in Manhattan. Along with Thurman Munson, Lidle was the second active Yankee to be killed in a private plane crash.
On June 18, 2007 the Yankees broke new ground by signing the first two professional baseball players from the People's Republic of China to the MLB, and also became the first team in MLB history to sign an advertising deal with a Chinese company. The Yankees' streak of nine straight AL East division titles ended in 2007, but they still reached the playoffs with the AL Wild Card. For the third year in a row, the team lost in the first round of the playoffs, as the Cleveland Indians defeated the Yankees in the 2007 ALDS. After the series, Joe Torre declined a reduced-length and compensation contract offer from the Yankees and returned to the National League as manager of the Los Angeles Dodgers.
After Torre's departure the Yankees signed former catcher Joe Girardi to a three-year contract to manage the club. Despite multiple midseason roster moves in 2008, the team was hampered by injuries and missed the playoffs for the first time in 14 seasons. The following off-season, the Yankees retooled their roster with several star free agent acquisitions, including CC Sabathia, A.J. Burnett, and Mark Teixeira. This strategy differed from the previous season's, where the team banked on young pitching prospects.
The 2008 season was the last season played at historic Yankee Stadium, after which the team will move to New Yankee Stadium, which is located adjacent to the current field. To celebrate the final year and history of Yankee Stadium, the 2008 Major League Baseball All-Star Game was played there on July 15, 2008. The final regular season game at Yankee Stadium was played on September 21, 2008 against the Baltimore Orioles, the city from which both the Yankees and their great star Babe Ruth originated. Fielding Derek Jeter as their captain, Andy Pettitte as the starting pitcher, and led by home runs from Johnny Damon and Jose Molina, the Yankees won 7–3. Molina's home run, a two-run shot hit to left-center field with one out in the bottom of the 4th inning, turned out to be the final home run in Stadium history. The final run was scored by Yankee pinch-runner Brett Gardner in the bottom of the 7th inning. Mariano Rivera pitched the top of the 9th inning, and the final batter was Baltimore's Brian Roberts, who hit a ground-ball out to Yankee first baseman Cody Ransom, closing out 85 years of baseball history at the stadium. After the game, Derek Jeter addressed the crowd, thanking them for their support over the years, and urging them to "take the memories of this field, add them to the new memories that will come at the new Yankee Stadium and continue to pass them on from generation to generation." The Yankees players then circled the field and saluted the fans, to the sound of "New York, New York".
The Yankees have won 26 World Series in 39 appearances (which, since the first World Series in 1903, currently amounts to an average appearance every 2.7 seasons and a championship every 4.0 seasons); the St. Louis Cardinals are second with ten World Series victories. The Brooklyn/Los Angeles Dodgers are second in World Series appearances with eighteen; eleven of those eighteen appearances have been against the Yankees, where the Dodgers have gone 3-8 against them. Among North American major sports, the Yankees' success is only approached by the 24 Stanley Cup championships of the Montreal Canadiens of the National Hockey League. They have played in the World Series against every National League pennant winner except the Houston Astros and the Colorado Rockies, a feat that no other team is even close to matching.
Through 2008, the Yankees have an all-time regular season winning percentage of .567 (a 9472-7235 record), the best of any team in baseball.
The "Yankees" name is often shortened to "the Yanks." Their most prominently used nickname is "the Bronx Bombers" or simply "the Bombers", a reference to their home and their prolific hitting. A less used nickname is "the Pinstripes", in reference to the iconic feature on their home uniforms. Critics often refer to the team and the organization as "the Evil Empire", a term applied to the Yankees by Boston Red Sox president Larry Lucchino in a 2002 interview with the New York Times. The statement has been greeted with mixed sentiment and often considered hypoctrical as Lucchino's team is also among the highest payrolls in the MLB every year - though it is still about $75 million less than the Yankees' over the past two seasons. A term from the team's tumultuous late 70's, "the Bronx Zoo", is also sometimes used by detractors, as well as the "Damn Yankees," after the musical of the same name. These have both been embraced by fans.
With the recurring success of the franchise since the 1920s, the Yankees have been and continue to be one of the most popular sports teams in the world, with their fan base coming from much further than the New York Metro Area. The Yankees typically bring an upsurge in attendance at all or most of their various road-trip venues, drawing crowds of their own fans, as well as home-town fans whose interest is heightened when the Yankees come to town.
The first one-million fan season was in 1920, when 1,289,422 fans attended Yankee games at the Polo Grounds. The first two-million fan season was in 1946, when 2,265,512 fans attended games at Yankee Stadium. The Yankees have beaten the league average for home attendance 83 out of the last 87 years (only during 1990, 1991, 1992 and 1994 did they not accomplish this). In the past seven years, in the dawn of their new dynasty, the Yankees have drawn over three million fans each year, with an American League record-setting 4,090,696 in 2005, becoming only the third franchise in sports history to draw over four million in regular season attendance in their own ballpark. The Yankees were also the league leaders in "road attendance" in each year from 2001 through 2006.
One famous fan is Fred Schuman, popularly known as "Freddy Sez". For over 50 years he has come to Yankees' home games with a baseball cap, a Yankees' jersey (which on the back bears his own name) and a cake pan with a shamrock painted on it which is connected to a sign inscribed with words of encouragement for the home team. The sign changes every game (but always features the prefix "Freddy Sez") and Freddy carries a metal spoon with him encouraging fans to bang the pan for good luck as he walks through the crowd throughout the game.
To avoid unwanted publicity, Yankees members use aliases when registering for hotels. The Village Voice published a list of aliases used by Yankees members, and the contents were republished on The Smoking Gun.
The "Bleacher Creatures" are a notorious group of season ticket holders who occupied Section 39 in the right field bleachers at the old Yankee Stadium, and will be occupying Section 203 in the new one. They are known for their strict allegiance to the Yankees, and are often merciless to opposing fans who sit in the section and cheer for the road team. They also enjoy taunting the opposing team's right fielder with a series of chanting and slandering. The "creatures" got their nickname from New York Daily News columnist Filip "Flip" Bondy, who spent the 2004 season sitting in the section for research on his book about the group, Bleeding Pinstripes: A Season with the Bleacher Creatures of Yankee Stadium, published in 2005.
The Yankees also have many celebrity fans. Former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani is commonly seen at games. Actor/Director Billy Crystal attends games frequently; he directed the 2001 film 61*, which highlighted Roger Maris' chase of Babe Ruth's single-season home run record in 1961. Crystal also played in a spring training game for the Yankees prior to the 2008 season, where he lead off and struck out in his only at bat. Actor Adam Sandler has flaunted his Yankee loyalty in several of his movies, most notably in Anger Management in which several scenes were actually shot at Yankee Stadium and included acting roles for Roger Clemens and Derek Jeter. Other famous celebrity fans include actor Jack Nicholson, director Spike Lee, basketball star Lebron James, musician Bob Dylan, actor Denzel Washington, actress Penny Marshall, actor/comedian Larry David, comedian Artie Lange, actor Chazz Palminteri, actress Sarah Jessica Parker, rock singer Meat Loaf, Ozzy Osbourne and Black Label Society Guitarist Zakk Wylde, Nobel Peace Prize laureate Henry Kissinger, New York Rangers captain Chris Drury (who wears number 23 to honor his childhood hero Don Mattingly), Toronto Maple Leafs head coach Ron Wilson, and Ranger great Brian Leetch. Deportivo la Coruna forward Omar Bravo also is a Yankees fan. Nick, Kevin, and Joe Jonas from the famous teen band The Jonas Brothers also favor the Yankees greatly.
The Yankees' hat is often seen in public worn by rappers to show an identity with New York City. Artists spotted with this look include Nas, Fat Joe, 50 Cent, Lloyd Banks, Busta Rhymes, Jay-Z, P-Diddy, Daddy Yankee, Héctor El Father, Ja Rule, and Jadakiss. The popularity of the Yankees' hat has also grown to include color patterns not actually used by the Yankees. This is probably most notable in rock band Limp Bizkit's video for the song "Nookie", in which lead singer Fred Durst wore a red Yankees hat.
The Yankees baseball club is formally owned by Yankee Global Enterprises LLC which also owns the team's regional YES sports network. While the club has claimed it is operating under annual losses in excess of $47 million this figure is attributed only to the ballclub's finances and not to finances attributed to YES or Yankees Global Enterprises.
The Yankees have become well known for a winning reputation on a global level. In 2007 they reached an agreement with the Chinese Baseball Association to allow coaches, scouts and trainers to work in China to promote baseball and judge talent. They are trying to do the same with the Yomiuri Giants and the Hanshin Tigers in Japan. The Yankees and Yomiuri Giants currently have a close relationship and share ideas and strategies. The Yomiuri Shinbun daily newspaper has an ad on the left-field wall at Yankee Stadium, and other Japanese ads appear on the scrolling backstop advertising board. The Yankees are hoping that close ties with countries such as China and Japan will give them personal, in depth judgments of baseball talent.
In 2008 the Yankees announced a joint venture with the Dallas Cowboys that would form the basis for a partnership in running food and beverage, and other catering services to both teams' stadiums.
With the long-term success of the franchise and a large Yankee fanbase, other teams' fans across the nation have come to hate the Yankees. The organization is sometimes referred to by detractors as "the Bronx Zoo" (echoing the title of Sparky Lyle's book) or "the Evil Empire" (parodying Ronald Reagan's characterizaton of the former Soviet Union), although both names have been defiantly embraced by some fans of the team.
The official fight song for the Yankees is "Here Come the Yankees", written in 1967 by Bob Bundin and Lou Stallman. While it is not used as often, it is still heard frequently in instrumental form, most prominently in radio broadcasts. Another song strongly linked to the team is "New York, New York", which is played in the stadium after home games. The Frank Sinatra cover version is traditionally played after victories, and the Liza Minnelli original version after losses. When the Yankees take the field before the start of every game, 2 Unlimited's "Get Ready For This" is played with the fans usually clapping along. When the Yankees score a run at home, the opening bell to 2 Unlimited's "Workaholic" is played.
A wide selection of songs are played regularly at the stadium, many of them live on the Stadium's Hammond organ. God Bless America has been played during the 7th inning stretch since September 11. The version typically played is an abbreviated version of Kate Smith's rendition. However, during many important games (including most play-off games) and on noteworthy days, it is sung a Capella and live by Dr. Ronan Tynan and includes a longer introduction. During the 5th, the grounds-crew, while performing their duties, dances to "Y.M.C.A.". "Cotton-Eyed Joe" once played during the 7th inning stretch, is now played in the 8th inning. On the DiamondVision screen, a man in farmer's garb is shown dancing in the stadium's control room, with the words "Cotton-Eyed Joey" at the bottom. The organist will sometimes play the "Zorba the Greek Theme", accompanied by clapping from the audience, to excite the crowd and encourage a rally.
Some players have their own songs which are played in celebration of their accomplishments, or to introduce them. These songs are meant to pump up the crowd. Examples include Bernie Williams, whose actions were often accompanied by the lines "Burn (Bern) baby burn (Bern)" from "Disco Inferno", and Mariano Rivera, who gets a great ovation from the fans when he comes out from the bullpen to Metallica's "Enter Sandman". When Joba Chamberlain comes out to pitch, Mötley Crüe's "Shout at the Devil" is played. Occasionally, Hideki Matsui will come out to Blue Öyster Cult's "Godzilla", in reference to his nickname. Many times, when former Yankee left-handed pitcher Mike Myers was sent in as a relieving pitcher, the theme song from the movie Halloween was played, in reference to the main villain of the movie who bears the same name.
During the 1993 season, "We're Not Gonna Take It" by Twisted Sister was played after every win, before "New York, New York". Ace Frehley's, "New York Groove" was used many times during the '70s as well as during some more recent playoff games. When the Yankees are either tied or behind in the late innings (usually the 8th inning), "Going the Distance" from the Rocky II soundtrack is played while a mix of the Rocky II training scene and Yankee highlights are shown on the DiamondVision screen.
The Yankees Entertainment and Sports (YES) Network launched in 2002, and serves as the primary home of the New York Yankees during the baseball season, and the New Jersey Nets during the basketball season. Michael Kay is the play-by-play announcer and Ken Singleton, Paul O'Neill, David Cone, Al Leiter, and John Flaherty work as commentators as part of a three-man booth. Bob Lorenz hosts the pre-game show and the post-game show, with David Justice as the analyst and Kimberly Jones and Nancy Newman as the reporters. Some games are telecast on WWOR-TV; those broadcasts are also produced by YES.
Radio broadcasts are on the Yankees Radio Network, the flagship station being WCBS 880 AM, with John Sterling as the play-by-play announcer and Suzyn Waldman providing the commentary.
The history of Yankee radio broadcasters is: WABC 770 (1939-'40), WOR 710 (1942), WINS 1010 (1944-'57), WMGM 1050 (1958-'60), WCBS 880 (1961-'66), WHN 1050 (1967-'70), WMCA 570 (1971-'77), WINS 1010 (1978-'80), WABC 770 (1981-2001), WCBS 880 (2002-present).
The Yankees have retired fifteen numbers, the most in Major League Baseball.
The retired numbers are displayed behind Yankee Stadium's left field fence and in front of the opposing team's bullpen, forming a little alley that connects Monument Park to the left field stands. The 15 numbers are placed on the wall in chronological order, beginning with Lou Gehrig's number 4. This was retired soon after Gehrig left baseball on July 4, 1939, the same day he gave his famous goodbye speech. His was the first number retired in Major League Baseball history. Beneath the numbers are plaques with the names of the players and a descriptive paragraph.
The number 42 was retired throughout Major League Baseball in honor of Jackie Robinson on April 15, 1997 (50 years after Robinson broke the color barrier). Mariano Rivera, current closer for the Yankees, still wears the number due to a grandfather clause and is the last remaining player to do so. While other teams placed the number 42 with the rest of their retired numbers, the Yankees didn't do so right away. Ten years later, on April 17, 2007, the Yankees put up Robinson's number and a corresponding plaque. This coincided with the celebration of Jackie Robinson Day, which was held two days prior while the Yankees were away in Oakland.
Although it has not been officially retired, the Yankees have not reissued number 51 since Bernie Williams stopped playing and number 6 has also not been reissued since Joe Torre's departure.
In 1972, the number 8 was retired for two players on the same day, in honor of catcher Bill Dickey and his protege, catcher Yogi Berra. Berra inherited Dickey's number in 1948 after Dickey ended his playing career and became a coach. As the Yankees have never issued number 0, the only two single-digit numbers that have not been retired are number 2, currently worn by Derek Jeter, and number 6, last worn by former Manager Joe Torre. If both numbers are ultimately retired, the team would become the first in baseball history to have all of the numbers 1-10 retired.
The Yankees are affiliated with the following minor league teams.
1998 New York Yankees season
The New York Yankees' 1998 season was the 96th season for the Yankees. The team finished with a regular-season record of 114-48, 22 games ahead of the second-place Boston Red Sox in the American League East. These Yankees set an American League record for wins in a season, a record that would stand until 2001, when the Seattle Mariners won 116 games in the regular season against 46 losses. New York was managed by Joe Torre. The Yankees played at Yankee Stadium. In the postseason, they swept the Texas Rangers in the American League Division Series, won the American League pennant by beating the Cleveland Indians four games to two in the American League Championship Series, and swept the San Diego Padres to capture their unprecedented 24th World Series. Including the playoffs, the 1998 Yankees won a total of 125 games against 50 losses, an MLB record. They are widely considered to be one of the greatest teams in baseball history.
On May 17, 1998, David Wells pitched a perfect game against the Minnesota Twins.
1983 New York Yankees season
The New York Yankees' 1983 season was the 81st season for the Yankees. The team finished in third place in the American League Eastern Division with a record of 91-71, finishing 7 games behind the Baltimore Orioles. New York was managed by Billy Martin. The Yankees played at Yankee Stadium.
Ron Guidry and Dave Winfield represented the Yankees at the 1983 Major League Baseball All-Star Game.
Gold Gloves were awarded to pitcher, Guidry and outfielder, Winfield.
Winfield also won the Silver Slugger Award.
The Pine Tar Game refers to a controversial incident that took place in an American League baseball game played between the Kansas City Royals and New York Yankees on July 24, 1983.
Playing at New York's Yankee Stadium, the Royals were trailing 4-3 with two outs in the top of the ninth and U L Washington on first base. In the on deck circle, George Brett was heard remarking to a teammate, "Watch this baby fly" as he shook his bat. He then came to the plate and connected off Yankee reliever Rich "Goose" Gossage for a two-run home run and a 5-4 lead. As Brett crossed the plate, New York manager Billy Martin approached home plate umpire Tim McClelland and requested that Brett's bat be examined. Earlier in the season, Martin and other members (most notably, third baseman Graig Nettles, who as a member of the Minnesota Twins, recalled a similar incident involving Thurman Munson) of the Yankees had noticed the amount of pine tar used by Brett, but Martin had chosen not to say anything until the home run.
New York Yankees (1940 AFL)
The New York Yankees of the third American Football League was the third professional American football team competing under that name. It is unrelated to the Yankees of the first AFL (and the National Football League), the Yankees of the second AFL, and the (later) Yankees of the All America Football Conference. The Yankees played their home games in Yankee Stadium and Downing Stadium in New York, New York.
After finishing fourth in the AFL's season of 1940, the Yankees were sold to agent and promoter Douglas Hertz. By the summer of 1941, the team's AFL franchise was revoked in light of a scandal involving the new owner, and a group headed by William Cox assumed control of the team by the beginning of the new season. The newly-renamed New York Americans were competitive, finishing one-half game behind league champions Columbus Bullies. While the Americans were making plans for a 1942 AFL season, the league suspended operations in the wake of the entry of the United States into World War II, and the Americans followed suit. The league did not return to business after the end of the war, and neither did the New York Americans.
The Yankees were one of three charter members of the third AFL (along with the Boston Bears and Buffalo Indians) that were formed with the expressed purpose of competing in a major professional football league to compete with the established National Football League. The new league became official after the Cincinnati Bengals, Columbus Bullies and a newly minted Milwaukee Chiefs defected from the American Professional Football Association. The roster for the 1940 season had five players who competed in the NFL in 1939. Head coach Jack McBride was also the coach of the New York Yankees of the second American Football League (1936-1937).
In January 1941, the Yankees were sold to agent and promoter Douglas Hertz. After questions arose about the finances of the new owner arose, the AFL revoked the franchise and transferred ownership to a syndicate headed by William Cox (later the owner of the Philadelphia Phillies baseball team) in August. Shortly afterward, the team's name was changed to the New York Americans.
Unlike the 1940 Yankees, the Americans had a flair for publicity, having signed college star running back John Kimbrough for $37,500 on a personal services contract that required personal appearances on behalf of the team. Well into the season, the Americans announced the signing of Heisman Trophy winner Tom Harmon (who had begun a career in broadcasting University of Michigan football games) for the game between the Americans and league leader Columbus. Harmon threw two interceptions while Hutchinson was similarly ineffective. In the second half, the New York fans shouted "We want Hutchinson," the Americans' regular rusher. The game ended in a 0-0 tie. A loss to the Milwaukee Chiefs the following week (the last game of the season) cost the Americans the AFL championship.
The 1941 New York Yankees, the fourth New York professional football team with the name, was a team formed and owned by Douglas Hertz after the third American Football League revoked his ownership of a franchise that was later renamed the New York Americans in August 1941. Initially an independent team, the Yankees joined the American Association in October to replace the Providence Steamroller, which dropped out of the league after only two games. Having four members of the 1940 Yankees, the 1941 edition lost all six of its American Association games (as a traveling team)… and folded soon afterward.


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Service Schedule Tutorial
This tutorial explains the use of a "service type" schedule to create an appointment calendar. SuperSaaS offers two other schedule types besides the service type, namely the "capacity type" and the "resource type". To find out which type is most suitable for your purpose read the explanation of the different schedule types.
You can play around with a working example of a service schedule in this demo. The demo uses a therapist as an example, but it should be straightforward to see how this could apply to a dental office, a nail studio, or any other business that has a list of services to choose from.
Service schedules can use resource schedules
A service typically requires one or more "resources" to be available. For example, the service "massage" would require the resource "therapist" to be available. And the service "Meeting room with projector" would require both one meeting room and one projector to be available. When calculating availability the system ensures that all required resources are available. For this to work you need to create one or more resource type schedules that the service depends on. You can do this before creating the service schedule or afterwards. All resources can be in a single resource schedule, or you can put them in separate schedules. If you have interchangeable resources, for example you could multiple rooms and the service can be provided in any of them, then those resources should be placed in the same resource schedule.
It's also possible for multiple service schedules to depend on the same resource schedules. This can be useful if you want to apply different constraints to different groups of end users. For example the group "members" can be allowed to see the details of what other members have booked, and pay a different price, than the non-members.
As a special case, when a service schedule uses only a single resource there is no need to create a separate resource schedule, you can just configure it to "avoid overlapping appointments". An example is a service schedule for a single therapist: as long as she is the only one accepting appointments there is no need for a separate resource schedule with her availability if appointments cannot overlap anyway.
Creating a new service schedule using the wizard
To create a new schedule, click the link "New Schedule" in the right-hand menu on the dashboard page. Assuming you already created a SuperSaaS account and are logged in, you can find a link to the dashboard at the top of this page. This leads you to a wizard that asks a series of questions and creates a schedule with sensible default settings for your situation. The first screen of the wizard presents you with a choice of schedule types. This choice is important because, unlike all other settings, the only way to change it is to start from scratch with a new schedule. This tutorial assumes you've decided on a "Service" type schedule, but if you are unsure read the explanation the wizard provides.
The next screen will ask you to pick a name for your schedule and in the final step you are asked to list the services and default values for the availability of the services. In the setup wizard you only define the name and duration of each service and, if you've already created a resource schedule, you also see a selector next to each service that allows you to define what resources it uses. Later on you get the opportunity specify additional details for each service, such as price and a description. If you define just a single service the user interface will adapt to hide the service selector widget.
It is recommended that you partition your days into fixed starting times where people can book, for example every hour, or every 10 minutes. Although the system works correctly with arbitrary starting times it can lead to surprising results. For example, if the availability of resources differs by only a few minutes the system would indicate with tiny boxes of a few minutes long that the service booked in that instance has different resources available. This is rarely useful and might confuse your users. When starting times are constrained by hour the system will draw a grid of boxes containing the resources available for that specific hour, which looks much nicer.
Once you click the "Finish" button the system configures your schedule and puts it online right away.
Trying out the basic functionality
To try out the schedule click the "Use" button that you can find in the menu box such as the one pictured on the right. It's only visible when you are logged in as administrator, regular users will not see it. You can also find your schedule via the dashboard page, which you can always get to with the link in the top right corner of your screen.
Initially the schedule will be completely empty. If you have entered more than one service then the left of the screen will have a column to select a service. To create an appointment click one of the dotted boxes that indicates the places where you can make a booking.
When you click 'Create Reservation' the schedule updates to show the appointment and adjusts availability accordingly. Click the appointment you just created again and a window appears with 'Update' and 'Delete' buttons that allow you to edit it.
Appointments made on a service schedule show up on the resource schedules of any resources that they depend on, but they cannot be edited there. Clicking them provides a popup with a link to the schedule where they can be edited. If the same appointment shows up in multiple schedules it still only counts as a single appointment in your subscription usage.
Changing the configuration
The wizard sets up the schedule with reasonable defaults but it is likely that you will want to change the configuration to better match your needs. Click the "Configure" button to go to the Configuration Overview page where you find a summary of all the available options. This Overview page also lets you delete the schedule or block it temporarily. The first tab, "Services", is explained in detail on this page. The other tabs each have their own chapter.
The "Services" tab
The Services tab lists the services available and how they relate to resources. If you don't see a "Services" tab you may be looking at a different schedule type: the other schedule types have a "Resources" tab instead of a Services tab.
The top half of the screen allows you to create and update your services. You can click and drag the rows to change the order in which the services are listed. When you click the "New Service" button, or click the edit icon of an existing service, a popup appears which allows you to change the details. To change the color, click the colored box in the top right corner of the popup. You can enter a fixed price for each service, but if you want more flexibility you can create price rules that can specify something like "this service is 20% cheaper on the weekend". For more information on creating price rules see the payment tutorial.
The radio button "Hidden" allows you to create a service that is only available to the administrator and the super users. Hidden services do not appear in the service list that clients see. If you want the ability to use a different length for a service there is an easier way to achieve that: on the "Access" tab is a check box "Allow superusers and the administrator to ignore all time constraints", this allows you to enter an arbitrary finish time right on the schedule instead of creating a separate service for it.
In the large box at the bottom you can enter a description of the service that appears when the service is selected. It can contain formatting and pictures but note that you can only link to pictures that are available somewhere on the internet so you may need to upload them to a website first.
If your account contains any resource schedules the window will also contain a section marked "Resources" that allows you to indicate which resources need to be available when making a booking. For example, you could specify that a treatments needs a specific therapist and a treatment room to be booked at the same time. To add new resources go the dashboard page, click "New Schedule", and select the "Resource" type schedule. You can also add additional resources on the "Resources" tab of an existing resource schedule.
The bottom half of the Services tab contains general settings that describe the services.
In the section 'Term used to describe an entry' you can pick an appropriate label instead of 'reservation'.
For instance, in the case of a therapist 'session' or 'treatment' might be preferable.
This term will then be used in all dialog boxes, help text and email confirmations.
You can also change the term used for a 'user', for example to change it into 'patient, that setting is on the general Layout Settings page.
If you use a custom term for a reservation then enter the singular form and the system will convert it to plural where appropriate.
For irregular plurals you can enter "
singular,plural" and the system will pick the appropriate one.
Under the heading "Limit per user" you can set a maximum number of appointments that a regular client can make. After the maximum is reached he can only change appointments or delete them. If a service depends on one or more resource schedules any limits set there apply as well.
If the checkbox "Multiple reservations can take place at the same time" is not selected the schedule will essentially behave as if there is a single shared resource needed for each appointment. This is useful if there is a single practitioner using the schedule, as no additional resource schedule would be needed to track her availability.
The box start "Constrain start times" allows you to divide the availability into a grid with boxes of available times. This allows the client to pick a time by simply clicking a box and typically provides a better user experience than leaving the time unconstrained.
If you have a service that depends on an interchangeable resource then the system can optionally show the client a drop down to specify which of the resources is preferred. This can be used to allow the client to select a specific hairdresser for his haircut, for example. Finally, if you have more than one service there will be an option to indicate whether a visitor should first see a list of available services, without a calendar, or whether the first service on the list should be preselected.
How schedules interact
When the system checks availability it takes into account if there are conflicting appointments for any of the requested resources, of course. However there are many other scheduling constraints that you can configure:
- Opening hours
- Special days such as holidays
- Limit how long in advance a booking can be made
- Limit appointments per time period or in total
- Ensure a synced Google Calendar is available
A time period is only available if it complies with all those constraints including the constraints for each resource that the service depends on.
The "Opening Hours" tab for each schedule, on the "Supervise" screen, has a section at the bottom that determines how the availability information is applied and a check box to allow the administrator to ignore all time constraints for the schedule. If you switch off a constraint there, it is also ignored in dependent services.
All other settings on the schedule only apply to bookings made on that particular schedule. In particular, only one email confirmation and one email reminder is sent, as defined by the confirmation setting on the schedule where the user created the booking. Email settings for the dependent resources are ignored. Also, only the price and payment settings apply of the schedule where the appointment was made.
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In an effort to educate voters, we will be posting responses to our candidate questionnaire. Questionnaires were emailed to each candidate running for City Council, President of City Council, and Mayor. Candidates have until March 4th to submit. We are publishing results in the order they are received.
How frequently do you use a mode of transportation other than your car to navigate the city? Based on your experience, where should the city prioritize resources for transportation?
TC: I utilize public transportation at least several times a month and I utilize my bike mostly in the warm months (April – September). My experience on public transportation has been very mixed as I have experienced everything from irate drivers to late buses to a good conversation with a fellow passenger and on time bus service. As for biking, I have had mixed experiences as well. I notice that there are no bike lanes available in various parts of Northeast Baltimore where my family resides. So we all usually have to resort to riding on the sidewalk to avoid possibly being in an accident. Overall, I think that the city should prioritize resources to bringing better, modern, technically advanced public transit (i.e. bike lanes, improve sidewalks, reliable bus benches, clean, well-lit bus shelters, and building bike kiosks) for the city.
What role do you believe biking and walking improvements can play in creating a safer, healthier, more livable Baltimore?
TC: Biking and walking have always played a helpful part in creating a safe, healthier and more livable Baltimore. Biking is great exercise and with many of the exciting trails there are always some new and fun sights to see. Also, walking has proven to be helpful to one's mood and overall health. As a fellow bike rider and a regular participant in the Baltimore Bike Party, I think that Baltimore should be aiming to increase bike riding in the local transportation regime. Baltimore should do more to give bike riders their own designated lanes and promote more citizens riding bikes. I would like to introduce a "bike share" program to Baltimore, in which citizens can rent bikes at a kiosk at a reduced price. This would help to promote physical wellness and bring an additional revenue stream to Baltimore. Bike riding is not only fun but also a healthy way to exercise that can be enjoyed by citizens of all ages. Today a lot of our crosswalks in the city are not clearly marked. In my vision for a better local transportation system, I would recommend that Baltimore invest in updating all faded crosswalks and as well as updating the crosswalk signals at every intersection. Also, I would recommend that Baltimore introduce an initiative in which all traffic would stop briefly in all directions while pedestrians cross the streets. This initiative has worked well in major cities such as Boston and New York; it has helped to greatly reduce pedestrian involved motor vehicle accidents.
Often road redesigns that improve the safety for people on bikes or people walking do so in a way that removes priority for single occupant vehicles. This can look like removing lanes for travel or decreasing available street parking. Can you describe how you would manage public expectations during project implementation, and handle any backlash from constituents that don't share in the City's vision for complete streets?
TC: The biggest thing is "transparency". In talking to constituents many have stressed the importance of just being informed. The best way that I would manage public expectations during project implementation would be inform residents before the project gets underway. Within the 6-12 month of the project implementation, I would schedule informative town hall meetings, send direct mail and e-mails to all stakeholders (i.e. residents, business owners) about the impending project and the changes associated with the project. Like all city projects, one has to expect and prepare for backlash, that why this town hall is so important. At the town hall meetings I would address the concerns of the changes and open the meeting up to suggestions as to how we can better prepare for the impending changes. Constituents must be informed at all times of the changes and the possible challenges that may exist.
Recent audits have discovered that the Department of Transportation struggles to measure key performance indicators. The city's procurement and project management processes have also faced scrutiny. This has led to significant delays of key improvements to bicycle infrastructure in Baltimore. How will you work to improve performance and accountability of city agencies like the Department of Transportation under your leadership?
TC: Audits have been heavily debated in City Hall lately. This action of auditing helps greatly to bring transparency and accountability to all city agencies especially the Department of Transportation. As a City Councilman, I will work tirelessly to ensure that the performance is improved through the increase of customer service and transparency throughout all city agencies namely the Department of Transportation.
The percentage of people choosing to take public transit or ride a bike for transportation is increasing in Baltimore, while the percentage of residents without access to a vehicle is over 30%. How would you rate the city's current investment in sustainable transportation solutions for its residents, and as a council person what would you do to support increased investment?
TC: The rating of the city's current investment in sustainable transportation solution would have to be "below average". While I do believe that they have addressed some issues, I think that the issues have only been addressed partially. As a City Councilman, I would be in support of using some of Baltimore City's general funds to improve transit. In order to improve transportation, Baltimore as a city must make an investment to bring better, modern, technically advanced public transit to the city. My spending priorities would be to create more bike lanes, improve sidewalks, obtain reliable bus benches, clean, well-lit bus shelters, and building bike kiosks. Currently, only 0.7% of all workers 16 and older in Baltimore City commute to work via bicycle (2014 U.S. Census Bureau). In an effort to increase this statistic, I would dedicate resources on raising awareness on the benefits of using bikes and other low energy transit options.
A recent study by Harvard economists found that the single strongest factor affecting the odds of a child escaping poverty is not the test scores of his or her local schools or the crime in the community; it is the percent of workers in his or her neighborhood who have long commutes. How do you plan to improve transportation options and commute times for our most vulnerable residents?
TC: Improving transportation and finding ways to reduce commute times for our residents has been an issue for many years. The best plan to address this issue is to increase the commuting options available to residents. I would propose the utilization of more commuter buses and the introduction of shuttle buses. For commuter buses, I would review the demographic areas that workers live and work, in an effort to build commuter bus routes that coincide with those areas. The shuttle buses would be scheduled during those higher frequency times when residents are commuting to and from work. Also, I would propose that we reconfigure our current bus schedules to emphasize higher frequency to include better night and weekend service, and direct lines through high-employment corridors.
What other information about your candidacy would you like to share with our members?
TC: My candidacy is not just about me as I am just one person, but this about the stakeholders (the constituents) of the 2nd district. I love this City and I want to make Baltimore the best Baltimore that it can be. As a product of Baltimore and proud homeowner in the 2nd District who has the life and professional experiences of a true public servant, I know that I am the one best equipped to be a Councilman. My grandfather always told me "success starts with falling in love with your work." My heart is where my home is and that is in the 2nd District. As a resident of the 2nd District, I have talked to many citizens who are tired of the double talk, political machines and empty promises. Residents want new ideas, new energy and a better now for their community. I have the new ideas and the new energy that will ensure that our communities and district is stronger and focused on moving forward. My experience as a Chief Financial Officer allows me to see an issue, develop a plan and execute it. I will bring that same strategy and transparency to the City Council as I serve the 2nd District.


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Town centre report helps identify key opportunities for development
Key opportunities for development and economic growth within the borough have been identified thanks to a new report.
As part of the One Public Estate Partnership, Crawley Borough Council, with West Sussex County and Crawley College, commissioned the report to explore routes for development across six town centre sites which are currently under-utilised.
One Public Estate is a national programme that brings public sector organisations together to collectively look at the use of land and buildings with the aim of improving public services, and supporting economic growth.
Crawley is already a significant economic hub, due to its good transport connectivity, proximity to London, Gatwick Airport and the presence of Manor Royal, which is one of the South East's largest mixed activity business districts.
However, the report identified the following sites as areas with significant potential:
• Queens Square
• Station Gateway
• Telford Place
• Crawley College
• County Buildings
• Town Hall and adjacent car park
Each development site has been examined for their most suitable use, including a small quantity of commercial and business spaces at Station Gateway and Queens Square (of which already has an established concentration of office based activity and retail offerings).
Plans for the redevelopment of the Town Hall, along with Telford Place and Station Gateway have already progressed significantly. Offering more than 90,000 square feet of business and commercial spaces alongside residential properties.
The report identified the County Buildings (adjacent to the Town Hall), as an exciting development site, with potential for commercial spaces designed to offer workspace for a range of different businesses alongside further residential properties.
Cabinet member for Planning and Economic Development at Crawley Borough Council, Councillor Peter Smith, said: "With three million square feet of office space currently in the pipeline to be developed and more identified, the town centre potential as a place for economic growth across a number of industries is significant and exciting.
"The report has been pivotal in identifying areas of development that can be brought forwards quickly such as Queens Square and Telford Place."
Leader of West Sussex County Council, Louise Goldsmith, said: "This is an example of how the Growth Deals signed with every district and borough council in West Sussex and our One Public Estate Programme (OPE) are having a positive impact in helping to achieve economic growth across West Sussex.
"Collaborative working through OPE helps to secure resources and investment to boost the local economy, helping both residents and businesses to prosper and benefit from planned improvements. It puts a real focus on economic growth and development countywide."
Continuing this, Group Managing Director (Commercial) for the Chichester College Group, Julie Kapsalis, said: "Crawley College is very pleased to be part of this work. We are absolutely committed to developing the offer at our campus in Crawley to ensure that we can train people in the skills required by the local economy.
"We want to attract more students and learners to access our training and facilities. We welcome the joined up approach between partners and a focus on collaboration to ensure the most effective outcomes for Crawley, its businesses and residents."
Under the council's Town Centre Regeneration Programme, development of these opportunity sites alongside improvements to the town's public realm and transport infrastructure has been detailed on www.regeneratingcrawley.org.uk.
The report can be found here: Crawley Town Centre Business Space Growth Plan.


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Information for Health Professionals
New Zealand Society for the Study of Diabetes (NZSSD)
NZSSD is an incorporated society that is open to people involved in the care of people with diabetes. It has over 250 members including diabetes specialist physicians, diabetes specialist nurses, podiatrists, dietitians, ophthalmologists, general physicians and clinical, community and industrial health workers.
NZSSD is the national advisory body on scientific and clinical diabetes care and standards. NZSSD's objectives are to promote the study of diabetes and the best standards of care of diabetes in New Zealand. It also provides the national reference source in the subject.
NZSSD holds an annual scientific meeting with local and overseas speakers and presentation of original papers. The executive of NZSSD arbitrates the award of research grants in the field.
NZSSD produces a quarterly newsletter that is mailed or emailed to all members.
Dietitians New Zealand
Dietitians New Zealand is the national association of the dietetic profession and currently represents over 550 dietitians and associated professionals practising in diverse areas of dietetics throughout New Zealand.
Dietitians NZ aims to ensure that members are recognised as the most credible source of food and nutrition knowledge within New Zealand, and to promote good health through appropriate food and nutrition, based on sound scientific research. For members with a particular interest in diabetes, Dietitians NZ has a very active diabetes special interest group (SIG) as well as other SIG groups covering topics such as gastroenterology, paediatrics, older peoples and public health.
The key goals of the Association are to sustain a strong and active membership by continuing to develop benefits offered to members, to enhance the profile of the dietetic profession, and to provide professional support to members to help strengthen their professional performance.
Activities of Dietitians NZ are diverse and include
Promotion of good nutrition through the media
Advocating for the dietetic profession and on food and nutrition issues at policy making level with governmental and non-governmental organisations through submissions and through collaborations with a wide range of groups for example the Obesity Action Coalition, Allied Health Professional Associations Forum (AHPAF) and PSA
Organisation of a national annual conference
Production of numerous publications including a bimonthly newsletter for members, conference proceedings, position papers on a range of nutrition and food related issues, and a clinical handbook for dietitians
Providing information on food and nutrition to both members and the general public through the Dietitians NZ website www.dietitians.org.nz
Providing membership services such as job advertisements on the website, special interest groups, position statements and professional practice policies and advice on professional matters
Developing partnerships with key stakeholders and industry colleagues to promote good nutrition amongst the population of New Zealand
Administration of a number of awards and grants that are available for members for their further professional development
If you would like further information about Dietitians NZ you can contact their Office Administrator at:
PO Box 13468
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Ph: 04 4774701
Fax: 04 4774705
Diabetes Special Interest Group (NZDA Diabetes SIG) of the New Zealand Dietetics Association (NZDA)
The Diabetes Special Interest Group of NZDA is a well established national group. It can offer you:
Membership of a network throughout New Zealand that can help you communicate with other dietitians working in diabetes
The opportunity to give and receive professional support and encouragement
The opportunity to share local resources and to be part of processes that establish national consensus in the field
A regular newsletter that keeps you in touch with current issues, conference and study day reports, resource development & evaluation, and future events and activities to consider
Involvement in one or more annual study days on diabetes related topics
The Diabetes Special Interest Group is working to establish a current register of dietitians working in diabetes. Currently we have 70 + members with an interest in diabetes, most involved in aspects of diabetes clinical practice.
It is also active in advising NZSSD, Diabetes New Zealand and other groups on the nutritional management of diabetes.
How can you join?
If you are a Dietitian, and current member of NZDA, either working in diabetes, or with a special interest in diabetes, you can join this group.
The Aotearoa Colleges of Diabetes Nurses (NZNO)
The Aotearoa College of Diabetes Nurses is a specialty college of NZNO (New Zealand Nurses Organisation) dedicated to supporting all nurses caring for people with diabetes across the age span in New Zealand. Their aim is to promote excellence in diabetes nursing in NZ through the development of clinical practice frameworks, policy, education and research. Membership to the college is open to nurses who are members of NZNO and work in diabetes. Membership is subject to you meeting the Section or College criteria please see here You must be a current NZNO member. The Aotearoa College of Diabetes Nurses has an Accreditation process for nurses working diabetes to become accredited as either a Specialty Diabetes Nurse or Specialist Diabetes Nurse.
The Aotearoa College of Diabetes Nurses provides a quarterly newsletter On Target, this informative and can be viewed here:
Wellington Office
Ph: 04 385 0847
Fax: 04 382 9993


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Mark's latest album, released in the Fall of 2009, is called "RELEASE", and was a labour of love for 2 years. All songs were produced, recorded and performed by Mark at Riveredge Studios (Kitchener), The Swamp (Stratford), and The Blue Loft (Stratford), but mostly in his own studio, known as Synchronous Music (Kitchener). There are 12 tracks, 11 of which were composed entirely by Mark. There is one cover song, 'So Into You', released in 1977 by Atlanta Rhythm Section. Mark sings this song as Carl West in the movie 'Lost In Translation', starring Bill Murray and directed by Sophia Coppola. There is a tapestry of styles, yet one unique and strong voice that tells the stories revealed in each of these songs. The musicians and performances are top notch as the album unfolds like a novel you can't put down.
1. Oh Amy (5:24)
2. So Into You (3:58)
3. The Angels' Share (2:56)
4. Sweet Marie (3:18)
5. No Way Out (5:41)
6. This House (3:20)
7. Wish You Well (4:02)
8. Deadline (6:07)
9. Please Forgive Me (4:56)
10. One Thing True (4:42)
11. Coming Home (4:51)
12. The Party's Over (3:34)
Art and layup design by Dan Gottfried and Susan Sinclair
Brian Doerner and Steve Hogg on bass at Riveredge Recordings
Stories My Piano Told Me
Released in 2004, this is a collection of original solo piano recordings. The liner notes include the following quote: "The piano is, in essence, a well-crafted collection of wood, steel and wires, with black and white keys. Just playing these keys in the right order is not enough. Evoking emotion and delicate nuance from this beast is the bridge between one's spirit and the machine. A song, simply played on the piano, can actually bring out a wide range of feelings, just by listening to the music. I believe that this is one of life's greatest miracles and mysteries. Music that is improvised comes directly from the heart and mind and is not encumbered by too much analysis or theory. This connection between the soul, the brain, and modern technology has enabled me to record this collection of songs created specifically for the piano. Some songs were completely improvised and some were the product of a more cerebral process. All the music contained on this CD seemed to come to me as if the piano was telling me stories and guided my finger to the tales contained somewhere in those black and white keys."
1. Flying (3:40)
2. A Step Towards (3:56)
3. My Favourite Place (2:09)
4. Sweet Sorrow (5:15)
5. Walk the Walk (3:44)
6. Into the Sky (7:01)
7. Taken Back (2:03)
8. Weaving Worries (2:34)
9. The Storm Has Passed (3:45)
10. Creatures (3:46)
11. Thoughts Out (2:52)
12. Love For Granted (5:11)
13. Dream Seven Times (10:17)
These albums are available to order from this website, at CDbaby and can be digitally downloaded at the itunes store. Some examples of these songs are available at my Myspace website. Please contact me for more information, or for direct ordering.


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19th July 2016
Gurupurnima is day to celebrate our teachers. 'Guru' means darkness (gu) to light (ru). A guru is one who guides us from our dark ignorance to the light of knowledge, truth and reality. The enlightened teacher is a living example of his teachings. He manifests the truth and teaches through example. Those true disciples develop the vision to see the inner enlightened soul and recognise its shining virtues. Today we sing and celebrate those virtues. We bow down to the compassion of our Guru who illuminates the path of liberation.
In our living teacher, Param Pujya Bhaishree, remains a living path, a thread of truth, a lineage of enlightened souls. As we celebrate him today we celebrate all those teachers of the lineage of truth.
Below you can watch Param Pujya Bhaishee's swadhyays on Gurupurnima day in Shree Raj Saubhag Ashram. Two poems, composed by Shree Gangasati, were sung and and explained.
During the course of the 3 day celebration alongside the swadhyays, a Panch Kalyanak Maha Pujan was conducted, a Parshwa Padmavati Pujan took place, Bhruhad Alochana was recited, the newly renovated Bapuji's Kutir was unveiled, vocational work kits were donated on behalf of Ashirvad Trust and a cultural programme took place.
The cultural programme
With overflowing devotion, all mumukshus gathered outside Pujya Bhaishree's kutir to welcome him and be blessed by his grace. Enthusiastic chants and devotional singing added to the divinity of the morning.
The day culminated with a grand finale - The Cultural Program.
Along with Sufi songs and dances, a play on the life of King Janak, came the crowning glory: Life of Devotee - Rajjab. Words are insufficient to describe the performance of the main actors Guru Dadu Dayal (played by Nayan Doshi) and disciple Rajjab (played by Mehul Mehta). The enitre act, dialogues and the message delivered through the play captivated the audience, holding them spellbound. It was an act par excellence.


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How To Run a Fast Mile
Marathons and Half Marathons may have supplanted it as Britain's favourite race distance, but for pure adrenalin fuelled / lactic laced enjoyment you cannot beat running the Mile!
It's an even with a rich British heritage. From Roger Bannister, to Coe, Cram and Ovett, and Zola Budd and Kelly Holmes, it's an event which holds a special place in the annals of British running. It's also a distance anyone can tackle, it doesn't matter if you're a beginner or an elite, anyone can post a time.
Although 1609 metres doesn't sound like much of a challenge you need to be prepared to run your best possible race. The mile requires a unique combination of speed and endurance, so you need to work on both in your training. Oh, and being prepared to buy a ticket to the pain train is a prerequisite!
Here's our tips to help you run your best possible mile.
Work on Speed in your training.
Building endurance comes relatively easy to most runners- we all love a social lunchtime run, but building speed is a challenge. Speed training benefits all runners. It forces you to use a larger range of muscle groups; improving efficiency, building strength and helping to develop technique. Try 6-10 short fast hill sprints (20-30 secs), with a walk back down to your starting position after each one.
Set a target, and be ambitious.
Believe it or not, most people tend to underestimate themselves. You can get a rough of an appropriate mile target by taking 20% off your pace per mile for 10k. You should then try to get an idea of what this pace feels like through running some intervals. Try to do this on a flat, measured course so all you have to focus on your effort: Aim for 6 x 400m or 5 x 2mins with 2-3min walk or jog between each one, trying to 'dial into' your goal race pace.
Strength is important.
Fast running is more ballistic and requires greater power. To run your best race you should improve leg strength, focusing on calves, hamstrings and glutes. Some simple running drills and plyometrics (power training based around hops and jumps) will also be beneficial.
Practise good technique.
Technique is important to unable you to reach your potential. Watch some of the top runners in the world; they run with big expansive piston shaped strides, short, light contact with the ground and dynamic arm movement. 800m World Record Holder David Rudisha suggested that the best advice he ever received was that fast running involves a series of pulling motions. Practise this in training over a few short 100m strides or sprints. Hold a tall posture and lean forward slightly as you run, 'pulling' your feet forward quickly as they leave the ground behind you. At the same time pull or drive your arms backwards to drive you forwards, with the arm swinging from the shoulder joint. Remember this as you dash for the finish line.
On Race Day: Focus on the third quarter and give it some welly.
The first half of the race should feel pretty good, but by the time you reach the halfway point you will be starting to feel the strain. This is the point where you really need to concentrate to maintain your effort. Don't sit back and leave your push until the final quarter - you'll always find an extra gear as you sense the finish anyway! Give it a real bash- what's the worst that could happen?


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With this week's post I just want to thank our UNBELIEVABLE Drama Ministry and Team for all of their hard work, dedication, and time given with this past Sunday's Christmas Play. It was AWESOME!Including rehearsals, I believe I saw the play close to a dozen times and it was funny and moving each and every time. I truly believe that everyone who attended received a blessing.
When new people start attending our church, they tend to get blown away by the amount of musical talent that our church has. And it's true! For a church our size (or any size), we have a ridiculous amount of musical talent. But, I like to remind people that it's not just musical ability that we have in abundance. We have a LOT of extremely talented actors. I mean a lot. And it's great to see them have an opportunity to use their talents for Lord.
So, if you didn't get an opportunity to see the play in person, check it out on our church website: 'Tis the Season
Merry Christmas and Worship Big!