The team is in a multiyear rebuilding that doesn't promise much hope of improvement over 2012's 74-88 mark.

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"When it looks like the sun isn't going to shine anymore, God put a rainbow in the clouds, " sung the 74-year-old, hosted onto the stage by Rastafarian poet Benjamin Zephaniah.

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