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Angels Tickets are a Fast Sellouts – Know Why
Posted by Parkzone Corsair in Memory on December 14th, 2010
Have you got your Angels tickets as yet? If you haven’t, you are going to miss out on great baseball game action. Based in Anaheim, California, the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim are a professional baseball team. They are a member of the Western Division of Major League Baseball’s American League. Their unusual name has originated from their home city, Los Angeles. Also nicknamed “the Halos”, the Angels have been using the Angel Stadium of Anaheim as their ballpark since 1966. Currently, the Angels are the reigning American League West Champions.
What’s In A Name
The Angels club was founded in Los Angeles in 1961. It underwent several name changes from ‘California Angels’ to ‘Anaheim Angels’ to their current name, Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim in 2005. None of this discouraged their fans, who bought Angels tickets to watch the team play. The Angels relocated to LA after the Browns were turned down during the Word War II period.
Angels And Los Angeles
1961 was the first year of the Angels as a major league expansion team in LA.
They played their home games at the Dodger Stadium from where they moved to the Anaheim Stadium [nicknamed The Big A] in 1966. Notable players in that period were Clyde Wright, Ken McBride, Jim Fregosi, Albie Pearson, Leon Wagner, and Buck Rodgers.
Down The Memory Lane, Ryan Express
The 1970s were mediocre years except for Ryan’s feats that gave him the nickname of Ryan Express. Later, Ryan chose to become a free agent. The Angels did not win any championship till 1979, when they won their first American League West Division championship. For the game, Don Baylor was awarded the American League Most Valuable Player award. Other contributors to the team were Bert Campaneris, Bobby Grich Rod Carew and Dan Ford. These players drew baseball lovers who bought Angels tickets to watch their favorite players play.
In the 1982 postseason, the Angels clinched their second AL West championship and narrowly missed the 1986 World Series primarily due an error known as the infamous Bill Buckner error. The Angels did not qualify for the playoffs for the next 16 years. For most of the 1990s, the Angels suffered a downslide and suffered the worst collapse in franchise history in 1995. Tragedies such as Bostock’s murder and Moore’s suicide further added to the woes of the Angels.
Fans Who Had Bought Angels Tickets Faced Much Disappointment.
Team uniforms underwent changes in 1997 and logos designed by the Disney Studios were added to the jerseys, a style much ridiculed by Angels’ fans. The team reverted to its earlier uniform in 2002. A year before that, the Rally Monkey also became Angel’s unofficial mascot.
Angels In the 21st Century
After many ups and downs, Angels’ World Series victory in 2002 gave the team some new confidence. In 2003, Disney sold the Angels to Arturo “Arte” Moreno. About this time, the Angels were caught up in legal hassles for marketing themselves to Los Angeles. They were sued by a jury trial but they won the legal battle.
Vladimir Guerrero led the Angels to a fourth American League West championship in 2004. For his efforts, he was awarded American League Most Valuable Player Award. The Angels went on to fight the New York Yankees and White Sox on the baseball field in 2005. The 2007 season went well too as the team clinched theirs sixth division title and seventh overall playoff berth in its history.
Although the Angels have been lately stumped by injuries to its players, fans are still cheering them on by buying Angels tickets. Contact an online broker and get your Angels tickets today.
Want to know Malcolm Heyhoe’s top tips for Cheltenham?
Posted by Parkzone Corsair in Memory on December 4th, 2010
The four-day Cheltenham Festival dominates the March programme, but there’s also a busy programme of racing throughout the month including the ever-popular Imperial Cup day at Sandown plus the thrills and spills of the Midlands Grand National day at Uttoxeter. Flat fans, meanwhile, will need no reminding that the new turf season kicks off with the William Hill Lincoln at Redcar on March 25.
March begins with the newly-established Vodafone Gold Cup at Newbury on the 4th over two and a half miles. It’s something of a surprise to find such a valuable race staged so close to the Cheltenham Festival, and many trainers face the dilemma of deciding whether to run here or in either the Ryanair Chase or Racing Post Plate over similar distances at the Cheltenham Festival.
Twelve months ago a solid handicapper in the shape of Supreme Prince held on to land the valuable prize while in its inaugural year, the classy Isio was a well-backed winner. Absent since that season, Nicky Henderson’s gelding may well reappear in this race and would be an interesting contender.
On the same day Doncaster’s Grimthorpe Chase, a staying handicap over three and a quarter miles, has been transferred to Lingfield and may well be the chosen target of A Glass In Thyne, who won the Skybet Chase that had also been switched from Doncaster to Southwell in January. Maybe the changing fixture pattern will repeat itself again for Ben Pollock’s improving young chaser.
Champion trainer Martin Pipe has endured a stop-start season but plenty of punters will still be scouring the list of runners for the Imperial Cup at Sandown on March 11 in the hope of unearthing another Pipe hotpot for one of the season’s most keenly-contested handicap hurdles.
Pipe has won the race five times overall and has landed the prize three times in recent seasons. His mass of entries should be studied with the utmost care and may well include progressive sorts such as Buena Vista, Acambo and Desert Air.
The punishing combination of a fiercely-run race and a stamina-sapping finish up the demanding Sandown hill has often meant that lightly-weighted horses have held an advantage over their higher-weighted rivals, while waiting tactics have also proved successful for several of the recent winners. Making all in a race as competitive as this isn’t easy.
The Irish won this race with shock outsider Regency Rake, trained by Arthur Moore in 1999, and any runners from across the Irish Sea should be accorded the greatest respect. Jessica Harrington’s Studmaster, an easy winner of his last two races might take in this contest or wait for the County Hurdle at the Cheltenham Festival.
On the same day at Sandown make a note also of the EBF Novices’ Hurdle Final, a race that often produces a star of the future. Plenty of classy young hurdlers will have this contest in their sights including the Lambourn-trained duo Mr Pointment, and Wogan while the NickGifford team intends to field Dusky Lord.
In recent years the Irish have held the Champion Hurdle on March 14, the opening day of the Cheltenham Festival, in a vice-like grip, winning five of the last seven renewals and looking at the somewhat weakened field for this year’s renewal it’s hard not to envisage the hurdling crown being whisked away once more across the Irish Sea.
Reigning title-holders boast a superb record in the Champion, but recent dual winner Hardy Eustace will have to banish a bout of the blues on his latest and disappointing effort in the AIG Europe Champion Hurdle at Leopradstown. At the age of nine many think his time may have passed.
Plenty of horses that have been placed in the race previously have put that beneficial experience to good use by returning again the next year to run well. Ireland’s formidable trio of Brave Inca, Macs Joy and Al Eile, who finished third, fifth and seventh respectively in last year’s race will all be fancying their chances of winning this race a second time around.
The home-based challenge looks poor and has been hit hard by a spate of cruel injuries as well as the loss of form of emerging contenders such as Faasel and Penzance. Maybe the best of the British will be Arcalis, whose chances will be much increased by quick ground at Cheltenham, and a return to form for his
7 Things You Need To Know About Marketing And Pr-Ing To Students
Posted by Parkzone Corsair in Memory on December 3rd, 2010
1. Don’t make assumptions
It is easy to pigeonhole the UK Student population following years of stereotyping and spoofing via modern media. The common assumption is that a typical student:
* is aged eighteen and straight out of school
* follows a distinctly “grunge” dress code
* is lazy and sponges off the government
* follows a strict diet of canned-goods on toast
* binge-consumes copious amounts of alcohol on a regular basis
* spends all their spare time in pubs and clubs However, whilst there will be some students who commit to this list religiously, not all students are the same, and their interests, hobbies and lifestyles as individuals differ tremendously, and these common presumptions are often inaccurate.
For example:
* With regards to age, not all students go into higher education straight out of school. For example, students over the age of thirty make up a third of the student body at Oxford Brookes University alone (http://www.brookes.ac.uk/facts/mature_students). Understandably, there is a huge leap between what appeals to a teenager compared to that of a person in their thirties. Therefore, promotion which involves free entry to clubs or free booze might not be of interest to the slightly more wizened scholar.
* Fashion seems to be high on the agenda nowadays for modern students. The days of getting away with being as scruffy as possible are entering their final death rattle, with websites like ASOS proving popular with young people, and student discount offered at retailers like New Look. So, promotion via platforms which largely attract the “grunge” crowd, such as music festivals, might not have the impact you’d expect.
* It is a myth that students are spongers. Every UK citizen is entitled to three years-worth of student funding via the Student Loans Company. That money is there for the taking if you are climbing the education ladder, but it isn’t much in the grand scheme of things and, if you live away from home to study, doesn’t stretch very far. Most students are forced to hold down a part-time job alongside studying full-time – quite a feat considering the amount of coursework required of them, and the tight deadlines which must be met. Therefore, students are not always lazy, and they do have money to spend, but they will want it to stretch as far as possible, because they work hard for the little they have.
* Most of the money students accrue will be spent on food. Most discussion forums suggest that an average student spends around £25-£30 per-week on groceries. That’s £100-£120 per month, which is a lot when you have to pay rent, utilities, and buy books for study. Therefore, promotion incorporating discounted supermarket shopping would reach a wide student audience.
* Alcohol consumption amongst students is high, and most universities boast pub and club facilities with subsidized bar pricing. Going back to the issue of age, this will not appeal to all students, as mature students may feel that part of their lives has been done to death. Socially, students spend a lot of their time at the computer, in the library, at the cinema, or shopping – just as much, if not more, than being in a pub or a club. The best approach is to fully research the age range you are playing to, and create ideas which people of all ages will find alluring. Bear in mind student habits and routines based on fact and not assumption, and you will be ten steps ahead of the competition.
2. Fresher’s Fairs and freebies
A great way for students to get familiar with your brand is the Fresher’s Fair. Held on-campus during the week that students register with their university, these events often have rows and rows of stalls and stands, set up by local businesses who wish to capitalise on the population of students new to the area at that time of year.
Often, students will be given a bag to fill with the many flyers, business cards, vouchers and freebies that these companies are eager to hand out. Flyers and leaflets are light and easy to carry, and a student at an event like this will find these easy to slip into their carrier bag of goodies.
However, what the students really look for are stalls which are giving away free items, such as sweets, sample groceries, and promotional items like
