After posting the worst record in baseball for the 1999 season, the Marlins had the first overall pick in the 2000 first-year player draft and selected first baseman Adrian Gonzalez, a 16-year-old native of Bonita, California.

After a short posting at Maymyo, Burma's principal hill station, he was posted to the frontier outpost of Myaungmya in the Irrawaddy Delta at the beginning of 1924.

After Brezhnev's death in November 1982, there was speculation the position of General Secretary would fall to Chernenko, however he was unable to rally enough popular support for his candidacy within the Party, and the posting fell to former KGB chief Yuri Andropov.

After Hubbard's father Harry rejoined the Navy, his posting aboard the USS Oklahoma in 1921 required the family to relocate to the ship's home ports, first San Diego, then Seattle.

After a winning season in 1992, the Twins fell into a years-long stretch of mediocrity, posting a losing record each year for the next eight years: 71 – 91 in 1993, 50 – 63 in 1994, 56 – 88 in 1995, 78 – 84 in 1996, 68 – 94 in 1997, 70 – 92 in 1998, 63 – 97 in 1999 and 69 – 93 in 2000.

After his Redskins failed to make the playoffs in 1977 despite posting a 9 – 5 record, Allen was fired and was replaced by new head coach Jack Pardee, a star linebacker under Allen in Los Angeles and Washington.

After posting a 14 – 2 record, the Redskins made and dominated the playoffs, beating the Falcons and Lions by a combined score of 64 – 17.

After posting a 16-10 mark in 1997, Wells pitched very well in the Yankees ' record-setting 1998 season.

After spending nearly a year in California Substance Abuse Treatment Facility and State Prison in Corcoran, California, Downey, on condition of posting $ 5, 000 bail, was unexpectedly freed when a judge ruled that his collective time in incarceration facilities ( spawned from the initial 1996 arrests ) had qualified him for early release.

After graduation, he obtained a posting in the Ministry of Justice.

After posting archers ( some on the roof ), to prevent those in the house ( who had not yet awakened ) from sending for help, Ōishi sounded the drum to start the attack.

After a leisurely passage with his wife, he joined his new command in India in October of the following year, just in time to enjoy some tiger-shooting before seeing the regiment off for Britain at the end of its long posting.

After these events, Sisko returned to duty and arranged for Ezri's transfer to DS9 and posting as the station's psychologist.

After posting an 0-6 record in 1924, Dunn folded the team.

After a dismal ' 85 campaign, the Stars returned to their winning ways posting an 80 – 62 record and winning the second half of the Southern Division.

After winning shares of five division titles and two league championships in their first six years, the Stars hit a huge skid, only posting a. 500 or better record four times and winning shares of only two division championships in the remaining twelve years.

After posting a 2. 84 ERA in the spring, Wood won the job.

After posting career-bests in scoring ( 15. 1 ppg ), rebounding ( 11. 0 rpg ) and assists ( 3. 4 apg ), he left the Bulls as a free agent and joined the Orlando Magic, led by Shaquille O ' Neal and Penny Hardaway.

After his brief call-up in 1962, Perry joined the Giants in 1963 to work mostly as a relief pitcher that year, posting a mediocre 4. 03 ERA in 31 appearances.

After a strong first half, posting a 12 – 2 record with a 3. 44 ERA, he was selected to the American League team in the 2007 MLB All-Star Game.

After posting a 3-6 record with a 5. 61 ERA, Gibson traveled to Venezuela to participate in winter baseball at the conclusion of the 1960 season.

After attending Staff College, he was first posted to understudy the Base Air Staff Office ( BASO ) at 55 Base, RAF East Kirkby before taking up his posting as BASO at 54 Base, RAF Coningsby.

After the creation of the regiment, its first overseas posting was a six month exercise in Kenya, followed by a year in Colchester and then a return to Kenya for a further two years.

" After only two years of posting the curses, al-Ḥākim ended the practice.

After the glittering decade of the 1950s, the first tour of the 1960s proved not nearly as successful as previous ones.

After nearly 20 years of slavish adherence to the Roman Senate's dictats, Philip had been goaded beyond endurance by the incessant and devastating raiding of the Dardani, a warlike Thraco-Illyrian tribe on his northern border, which his treaty-limited army was too small to counter effectively.

After nearly becoming extinct in the 1940s and 50s, the Liberal Party revived its fortunes somewhat under the leadership of Jo Grimond in the 1960s, by positioning itself as a radical centrist non-socialist alternative to the Conservative and Labour Party governments of the time.

After nearly 15 years together, Bartók divorced Márta in June 1923.

After the retreat from Gallipoli nearly 400, 000 men in 13 divisions from the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force and the Force in Egypt formed a strategic reserve in Egypt called the Egyptian Expeditionary Force.

After premiering on September 30, 1982, it was nearly canceled during its first season when it ranked last in ratings for its premiere ( 74th out of 77 shows ).

After previous failed attempts to bring the Major League Baseball to Colorado ( most notably the Pittsburgh Pirates nearly relocating to Denver following the Pittsburgh drug trials in 1985 ), by the late 1980s a team seemed to be a possibility in Denver.

* 1919 – After nearly 20 years of planning and construction, including two collapses causing 89 deaths, the Quebec Bridge opens to traffic.

After nearly being excommunicated for his heresy by Alexander of Alexandria, Eusebius submitted and agreed to the Nicene Creed at the First Council of Nicea in 325.

After ten weeks nearly 17. 5 million people had seen the film in France, Intouchables was the second most-seen French movie of all-time in France, and the third including foreign movies.

* 1658 – Treaty of Roskilde: After a devastating defeat in the Northern Wars ( 1655 – 1661 ), the King of Denmark-Norway is forced to give up nearly half his territory to Sweden to save the rest.

After centuries, these giornate ( originally, nearly invisible ) have sometimes become visible, and in many large-scale frescoes, these divisions may be seen from the ground.

After experiencing GDP growth averaging nearly six percent a year in the late 1990s, economic growth declined considerably after 2001 as a result of a decline in the tourism industry following the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, and damages caused by several hurricanes.

After forming a pact with the Soviet Union in 1939, Hitler's blitzkrieg swept nearly all of Western Europe.

After reaching Mecca he decided to return to Morocco, nearly a quarter of a century after leaving home.

After the commercial disappointment of Citizen Kane, RKO was apprehensive about the new film, and after poor preview responses, cut it by nearly an hour before its release.

After subduing and executing nearly 2000 members of the rebellion, and blinding his renegade son Khusraw, Jahangir had Arjun Dev executed, causing a permanent deterioration of relations between the imperium and the Sikhs.

After nearly three weeks of talks, the joint French-British Command decreed that responsibility for armed units under French control were to be handed over to the Independent Government of Lebanon.

After nearly two centuries, M < sub > 31 </ sub > was verified to be prime by Euler in 1772.

After the discovery of a few meteorites in 1967, a public awareness campaign resulted in the finding of nearly 100 new specimens in the next few years, with many being

After a winter storm dropped nearly 17 inches of snow in the Minneapolis / St Paul area the Saturday prior to the Vikings December 12 home game versus the New York Giants and 30 mph gusts drove snow removers off the dome's roof overnight, several panels were damaged as the weight of the snow caused the roof to collapse.

After hardening, many blades are tempered to maximum toughness, often nearly spring tempered.

After nearly 70 years of use, the vast majority of over-the-air NTSC transmissions in the United States were turned off on June 12, 2009 and August 31, 2011 in Canada and most other NTSC markets.

* 1997 – After nearly 18 years of incarceration, the People's Republic of China releases Wei Jingsheng, a pro-democracy dissident, from jail for medical reasons.

After the first series was filmed, the house which had been used for the Meldrews ' house ( near Pokesdown, Bournemouth ), in location sequences changed hands, and the new owners demanded nearly treble the usage fees that the previous owners had asked for.