Longtime fan favorite LB Jessie Tuggle retired following 14 seasons in Atlanta.

Often when a fan does not agree with one of the events in a story ( such as the death of a favorite character ) they will choose to ignore the event in question so that their enjoyment of the franchise is not diminished.

Mare was signed to replace fan favorite John Kasay, the last original Panther from the inaugural 1995 squad who was cut with two years left on his contract.

In 1960, Lane made the trade that would define his tenure in Cleveland when he dealt slugging right fielder and fan favorite Rocky Colavito to the Detroit Tigers for Harvey Kuenn just before Opening Day in.

Despite losing fan favorite Grace to free agency, and the lack of production from newcomer Todd Hundley, skipper Don Baylor's Cubs put together a good season in 2001.

In a trade considered one of the best in team history, the Marlins acquired Hanley Ramírez and Aníbal Sánchez among others from the Red Sox for World Series MVP Josh Beckett and fan favorite Mike Lowell in a Thanksgiving blockbuster.

The 2008 season began with the release of fan favorite Mike Sweeney and the trade of Angel Berroa to the Dodgers.

Miller Park also features another fan favorite, Klement ’ s Racing Sausages, in a race of five costumed mascots, held before the bottom of the sixth inning.

The Brewers parted ways with 2006 starters Doug Davis and Tomo Ohka, as well as fan favorite Jeff Cirillo, who wanted more playing time with another team.

The show is a hip-hop fan favorite, airing news, classic songs, and interviews with various hip-hop artists.

With Clemente fast becoming a fan favorite, there would seem little not to like about the early progress of his highly touted rookie season, but the transition from Puerto Rico to Pittsburgh was, in fact, anything but smooth.

Dolphin fans were furious because fan favorite Lloyd Mumphord was replaced with Stuckey.

" The album, which also included long-time fan favorite " Tom Traubert's Blues ( Four Sheets to the Wind in Copenhagen )", featured jazz drummer Shelly Manne and was, like his previous albums, heavily influenced by jazz.

During this stretch, the Rangers made one of their most unpopular trades ever, sending multi-Gold Glove catcher and fan favorite Jim Sundberg to the Milwaukee Brewers for future Brewers ' manager Ned Yost.

And also Philippines has network wars in which the fans of the 2 major networks defend their favorite channel, or when the 2 major networks produce similar and rival programming, and example of this, is when an ABS-CBN fan tells an insult on GMA ( usually being called cheap ), and a GMA fan would answer and make another insult ( usually the answer is that ABS-CBN is mayabang, arrogant in English ), and an exchange of insults would occur, usually on social networking sites, especially Facebook.

The list is stolen by an obsessed fan who, in mimicking his favorite director, makes his way through the list killing off celebrities, of which Dirty Harry is also included.

Throughout his major league baseball career, Griffey was a popular player and a fan favorite around the league.

Out of the many characters for which Azaria provides the voice, Frink is his favorite to do because he was a fan of Lewis in his younger years and he enjoys imitating the voice of the nutty professor.

By the time training camp came around it was clear that Clarke was the best player on the team, and he quickly became a fan favorite.

In January, longtime Flyer and fan favorite Rod Brind ' Amour was shipped to Carolina for Keith Primeau, with the intention of acquiring a big center to complement Lindros.

The Hornets tore through much of the season, but tragedy struck on January 12, 2000, when fan favorite and top reserve Bobby Phills was killed in an automobile accident ; the Hornets retired his # 13 on February 9, 2000.

Hinrich provided the lone bright spot, becoming a fan favorite for his gritty determination and tenacious defense.

The song became a fan favorite and would be played live at every show, even 20 years later.

The Yankees become the most dominant team in baseball, and Gehrig becomes a fan favorite.

Elfman cited his first time noticing film music being when he heard Bernard Hermann's score to The Day the Earth Stood Still as an eleven-year-old and being a fan of film music since then.

The Friends of Ted Festival, better known as Ted Fest, has been held annually as Father Ted fan convention since 2007 after the show achieved a cult following.

A fan of Orwell since school days, he found the reality very different, with Orwell hostile and disagreeable probably because of Holbrook's membership of the Communist Party.

Special effects director Eiji Tsuburaya was planning on working on other projects at this point in time such as a new version of a fairy tale film script called Kaguyahime ( Princess Kaguya ), but he postponed those to work on this project with Toho instead since he was such a huge fan of King Kong.

Passive cooling, or a single fan mounted on the power supply, was sufficient for many desktop computer CPUs until the late 1990s ; since then, most have required CPU fans mounted on their heat sinks, due to rising clock speeds and power consumption.

Motörhead, since their first album release in 1977, have had continued popularity in the punk scene, and singer Lemmy is a fan of punk rock.

Crowe is a known sports fan and has been a supporter of the rugby league football team the South Sydney Rabbitohs since childhood.

At first, the team had planned to wear silver helmets at home and blue helmets on the road, but since NFL rules forbid the use of multiple helmets, the team held the fan poll to decide which color helmet would be worn.

The Space Quest series, while having been discontinued many years ago, still has a decent following, with several fan games created since the cancellation of the seventh game, as well as remakes of the two dimensional games.

Christine had been a huge fan of the Peter Green-era Fleetwood Mac, and since she knew all the lyrics to their songs, she went along.

Their " above-floor " cleaning power is less efficient, since the airflow is lost when it passes through a long hose, and the fan has been optimized for airflow volume and not suction.

Alpha Centauri being a founding world of the Federation and even having a humanlike native race called Centaurans became a popular fan theory, possibly based on uncertainty as to whether or not Zefram Cochrane ( described in Metamorphosis as " Zefram Cochrane of Alpha Centauri ") was a native of Alpha Centauri or a resident of a human colony in that system ; the latter has since been revealed to be the case, Cochrane having spent most of his life on Earth but eventually retiring to spend his final years on Alpha Centauri, prior to his disappearance and presumed death.

A fan of the book since childhood, film director Tim Burton states, " I responded to Charlie and the Chocolate Factory because it respected the fact that children can be adults.

He has been the team's mascot since its inaugural season, and his name was chosen through fan voting.

So my nephew works in a printing place, and I created this cover that had all the same photos and information inside the CD insert, but I had him make 500 of these new covers, and we took the shrink wrap off ... 500 CDs, and ... inserted these covers that I wanted and took them on the road and sold them, and we mailed them out through the fan club, since we didn ’ t have a website in those days.

Both ( original slash and original yaoi ) are terms that are considered somewhat controversial by some slash fans since they feel that the term ‘ slash ’ can only refer to works of fan fiction and not original works.

Shubik had been a science fiction fan since college, and in 1961 approached Newman with a proposal to create a science fiction version of Armchair Theatre.

So I decided I needed a change of pace, and since I am a long-time mystery fan, it occurred to me that a medieval mystery might be fun to write.

Jein was a longtime Star Trek fan who had constructed the props for The Final Frontier, but was forced to remake props that had since mysteriously disappeared.

Hunt's hometown is Chicago and she is a lifelong Chicago Cubs fan, having not missed an Opening Day at Wrigley Field since 1977.

The Terrible Towel has been in use by the Steelers since and is " arguably the best-known fan symbol of any major pro sports team ".

Quincy Jones has proclaimed himself to be the " biggest fan of Earth, Wind & Fire since day one.

Most explanations since the album's release seem to lean towards the latter ; when Canibus ' new official website, MicClub. net, appeared online towards the end of 2002, the summary of C True Hollywood Stories in the " Merchandise " section called it " an introspective look into the ultimate fan " Stan's " take on the current state of hip hop ".

Ever since it has become traditional for any Wealdstone fan when visiting the fair city of Dublin, to make a pilgrimage to the famous statue of Molly in Grafton Street to " set their eyes " on " sweet Molly ".

A classic science fiction fan novelette, The Enchanted Duplicator by Walt Willis and Bob Shaw, is explicitly modeled on The Pilgrim's Progress ; it has been repeatedly reprinted over the decades since its first appearance in 1954: in professional publications, in fanzines and as a monograph.