The 2000 season began what has generally been seen by the media as a decline in Griffey's superstar status.

In Griffey's final season of his first stint with the Reds, the strike-shortened 1981 campaign, he batted. 311 with only two home runs and 34 RBIs.

One of the most memorable moments of Griffey's career with the Mariners came during the 1995 American League Division Series ( ALDS ) against the New York Yankees.

Griffey's resurgence was recognized when he was named National League Comeback Player of the Year.

It was also alleged that Martin would chase a young Ken Griffey Jr. out of the clubhouse, when Griffey's father was playing for the Yankees, seeing that he didn't believe that children should be in the clubhouse.

Shortly after this injury, the Reds ' team physician, Timothy Kremchek, devised an experimental surgery dubbed " The Junior Operation " that would use three titanium screws to reattach Griffey's hamstring.

For several weeks, Griffey's right leg was in a sling that kept it at a 90-degree angle, and he was not able to move the leg until late October.

Griffey's injuries continued in the 2006 off-season.

They played their first game together against the Kansas City Royals on August 31. Griffey's younger son Craig played in the Mariners minor league system and appeared with his brother in the outfield during some Cactus League games, Craig Griffey retired from baseball after failing to make it past Triple-A where he appeared in a handful of games with the Tacoma Rainiers.

The label languished in 1982, and Avant nearly lost his home in 1983 before discovering Dina R. Andrews, a young music executive who had worked for Dick Griffey's Solar Records.

In 1982, Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis were introduced to the music executive Dina R. Andrews, who was then an employee of Dick Griffey's Solar Records ( The Whispers, Shalamar, Lakeside, Klymaxx, The Deele, Babyface ).

The group was joined up with producer Leon Sylvers III in 1979, signed with Griffey's SOLAR Records and scored a US million seller with " The Second Time Around.

When Peate returned to the pavilion he was reprimanded by his captain for not allowing his partner, Charles Studd ( one of the best batsman in England, having already hit two centuries that season against the colonists ) to get the runs.

The team finished with a franchise best 14 – 2 regular season record and the NFC West division championship.

In 2010, with a regular season record of 13 – 3, their best regular season record since the 1998 Super Bowl season, the Falcons secured a third straight winning season, their fourth overall divisional title, and the top overall seed in the NFC playoffs ; however, the Falcons were overpowered by the eventual Super Bowl XLV champion Green Bay Packers in the NFC Divisional Playoffs 48 – 21.

Despite being outscored over the season, the Diamondbacks posted the best record in the NL with 90 wins and 72 losses.

After winning the opening game of the season on March 31 on the road against the Cincinnati Reds, the Diamondbacks found themselves with the best record in Major League Baseball, 20 – 8, by the start of May.

* In episode 2, season 4 of " How I Met Your Mother ", entitled " The Best Burger in New York ", Marshall's description of the taste of the best burger uses music that alludes to the 1984 film " Amadeus ", when Antonio Salieri describes the same music ( by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart ) with the same accuracy and passion with which Marshall speaks of the burger.

Prior to 1969, the National League champion ( the " pennant winner ") was determined by the best win-loss record at the end of the regular season.

Beginning in 2007, MLB has implemented a new rule to give the team from the league that wins the All-Star Game with the best regular season record a slightly greater advantage.

The team with the best overall record in the major leagues, the Cincinnati Reds, failed to win their division in either half of that season and were controversially excluded, as were the St. Louis Cardinals, who finished with the NL's second-best record.

Levine was best noted for his work on TV shows such as Cheers and M * A * S * H, but only lasted one season in the Orioles broadcast booth.

In 1996, the ten-year-old Brisbane Bears had enjoyed their best season to date, losing a preliminary final to the eventual premiers, North Melbourne.

Motley, the team's best rusher and blocker in its early years, retired at the beginning of the season with a bad knee.

Although they had their best season in decades at 92 – 70, they lost key games against the Mets and finished the season a disappointing eight games out of first place while the Mets exploded past them by winning 39 of their last 50 games.

1997 – 98 was Charlton's best season for years.

The Cowboys became the surprise team of the 2003 season, posting a 10 – 6 record and a playoff berth by having the best overall defense in the NFL.

In his first season as head coach, Phillips and his coaching staff led the franchise to its best seasonal start ever, a conference-best 13 – 3 record, and the franchise's 16th NFC East championship title, the most of any team in that division.

The Wings posted the league's best record in the 2001-02 regular season and defeated Colorado in seven games in the Western Conference Finals after beating the Vancouver Canucks and St. Louis Blues in rounds one and two.

It's a toughly told, very tall tale, one of the best escape ( and escapist ) movies of the season.

Just three players – Mark Johnson, Brent Stanton and Scott Lucas played all 22 matches that season, the latter winning Essendon's best and fairest award, as well as being Essendon's leading goalkicker that season.

Essendon started season 2012 with four straight wins, its best start to a season since 2000.

Martha Schuyler, old, slow, careful of foot, came down the great staircase, dressed in her best lace-drawn black silk, her jeweled shoe buckles held forward.

In his wake came the District Traffic Supervisor and the cream of the telegraphic profession, ten of Boston's best, chosen for their long experience and thorough knowledge of golf.

The world's best golfer, shooting below par, came to the last hole of the opening round of the Los Angeles open with every intention of delivering a final crusher.

The Catholic priest, though somewhat superficially drawn, easily came out the best.

To establish his authority, Gregory explains that his information came from what he considered the best sources: a handful of Benedict ’ s disciples who lived with the saint and witnessed his various miracles.

After initially building his career on " tough guy " roles Lancaster abandoned his " all-American " image in the late 1950s in favor of more complex and challenging roles, and came to be regarded as one of the best actors of his generation as a result.

He received several offers, including Universal, Fox, and Vitagraph, the best of which came from the Mutual Film Corporation at $ 10, 000 a week.

He classified both what he regarded as good and what he regarded as bad constitutions, and came to the conclusion that the best constitution was a mixed system, including monarchic, aristocratic, and democratic elements.

When Nero came to Greece in AD 66, he took away over 500 of the best statues from Delphi to Rome.

As Bopp based his research on the best available sources and incorporated every new item of information that came to light, his work continued to widen and deepen in the making.

One of the few positive reviews came from Joel Siegel of Good Morning America, who is quoted on New World's newspaper ads as saying, " Hysterical fun ... the best Godzilla in thirty years!

In view of this complex and multi-layered history it is meaningless to speak of a single " author " of John, but the title perhaps belongs best to the evangelist who came at the end of this process.

Through land subsidies granted to the railroads, they soon came to control vast tracts of the best land along the Caribbean coast.

His best batting against West Indies came when playing for Free State ; he scored 158 * as they chased down 438 and made up a first innings deficit of 249.

Officers typically came from the ranks of Anglos in the territory, and were not of the best calibre.

He was best known to the general public for inventing a method to treat milk and wine in order to prevent it from causing sickness, a process that came to be called pasteurization.

Libralces gallicus came from the warm savannahs of Pliocene Europe, with the best preserved skeletons being found in southern France.

It was estimated that the best infantrymen came from the younger sons of free land-owning yeomen, such as the English archers and Swiss pikemen.

Since it would be expected that a player would only make such a bet when he had the best possible hand, the folk lore says that this is how the best possible hand came to be known as the nuts.

He came to international attention for his role as the Roman general Maximus Decimus Meridius in the 2000 historical epic film Gladiator, directed by Ridley Scott, for which he won an Academy Award for Best Actor, a Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Actor, an Empire Award for Best Actor and a London Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actor and ten further nominations for best actor.

Clemens ' best year with the Yankees came in 2001, when he became the first pitcher in MLB history to start a season 20 – 1.

Writer Roy Thomas responded, " we like to think that an enthusiastic ALL-STAR booster at one of Adam Malin's Creation Conventions in San Diego came up with the best name for it a few months back: ' Retroactive Continuity '.

But the best performances came from both teams ' starting running backs.

The 49ers came into the game with the league's best regular season record at 14 – 2 and led the league in scoring with 431 points.