Of this year's eight playoff teams, the four that spent the most on closers--the Yankees, Angels, Cubs and Phillies--all lost in the first round.

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The grand 19th Century congregational numbers - O Come All Ye Faithful and Angels from the Realms of Glory for instance - are rousing hymns of communal praise.

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He was selected to play in his second All-Star Futures Game last July, joining Los Angeles Angels center fielder Mike Trout and New York Yankees second baseman Robinson Cano in the group that has appeared in that event multiple times.

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Guests also get free entry to the Snow Park, the non-ski slope part of Ski Dubai, where you can make snowballs and snow angels, try sledding and toboggan runs and indulge in all your mid-winter, cold weather fantasies while everyone else is sweating rivers outside.

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The composition is clearly divided into earthly and celestial domains and, as the art historian Sarah Schroth has described, two recognizable European types the "All-Saints Picture" of a sacred realm filled with divinities, angels and saints, and the motif of the "Last Judgment, " in which the dead are judged for eternity are beautifully conflated in the upper register.

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