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Giants beat Tigers, win World Series
Associated Press, by Staff
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Posted By:NorthernDog, 10/29/2012 12:35:44 AM
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| Detroit - Finally pressed in the World Series, the San Francisco Giants finished off a most unexpected and stunning sweep. Marco Scutaro delivered one more key hit this October, hitting a go-ahead single with two outs in the 10th inning that lifted the Giants over the Detroit Tigers 4-3 in Game 4 on Sunday night. Nearly eliminated over and over earlier in the playoffs, the Giants sealed their second title in three seasons when Triple Crown winner Miguel Cabrera looked at strike three right down the middle for the final out. On a night of biting cold, stiff breezes and some rain, the Giants combined
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
octrojan, 10/29/2012 12:37:58 AM (No. 8970629)
You knew SF had it in the bag when Obama picked the Tigers.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Scottish girl, 10/29/2012 12:51:02 AM (No. 8970639)
Congrats! It's great.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
4Justice, 10/29/2012 12:52:30 AM (No. 8970640)
Yay!!! Go Giants!!! I will always be an A's gal first and foremost, but I support the other Bay Area team too!
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Newtsche, 10/29/2012 12:54:44 AM (No. 8970642)
No dog in this fight and understanding Detroit is America's sub-Calcutta, I was struck by how barren downtown Detroit looked in wide and aerial shots. Being a national stage, you'd think they'd have fired up all the downtown building lights. It looked like twenty per cent max was lit up and it just looked sad, sad, sad.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
mercystreetbob, 10/29/2012 12:54:48 AM (No. 8970643)
So, if history holds true, it is time for the good citizens of Detroit to turn over and burn police cars, loot the stores, just riot in general.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
BethB, 10/29/2012 1:21:48 AM (No. 8970656)
What a great show of superb athleticism!!!! Yay Giants!!!!!
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
montanabound, 10/29/2012 1:29:05 AM (No. 8970661)
''You don't pick winners and losers - you pick losers.''
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
LamontCranston, 10/29/2012 1:47:11 AM (No. 8970670)
Great game. Detroit's pitching vanished in this series. Before tonights game the Giants had scored nine more runs than the Tigers.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
vwlarry, 10/29/2012 3:05:59 AM (No. 8970691)
The rioters will now have a few days to rest between riots. Next Tuesday night will be the BIG Detroit riot.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Spidey, 10/29/2012 3:43:53 AM (No. 8970700)
Terrible WS and as much as I hate the Yanks,it would have been more entertaining to see them.The Yanks were sunk in the playoffs because the Orioles forced a game 5 and the Yanks had to use CC,which pretty much erased him against the Tigers.The benching of ARod and Jeter's broken ankle really derailed the Yanks.
The Giants showed how it's done. just go out and get 3-4 top pitchers.Easier said than done,to be sure.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
binthere_dunthat, 10/29/2012 4:48:49 AM (No. 8970723)
Not being a Giants fan, or anything else relating to SF for that matter, I thank them for making quick work of it all. Now can we please devote sports pages and broadcasts to football? The endless postmortums of each inning of baseball was becomming almost excruciating.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Phil_hk, 10/29/2012 5:06:33 AM (No. 8970725)
The most dangerous city in the US versus the most sinful city in the US. Why can't Al Queda nuke both of these places?
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
FunOne, 10/29/2012 6:26:22 AM (No. 8970788)
#7: LOL Great one.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
SoCalGal, 10/29/2012 6:29:55 AM (No. 8970794)
Not a great fan of anything San Francisco in recent years, but thoroughly enjoyed their workmanlike dispensation of the Tigers. Great players and they have such a good time! It was fun to watch.
/s/Not Usually A Baseball Fan
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
uno, 10/29/2012 6:30:29 AM (No. 8970796)
Detroit just became San Francisco's "Easy Button"
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
tedinmich, 10/29/2012 9:41:34 AM (No. 8971184)
It wasn't Tiger pitchimg that vanished Cranston. It was their hitting lead by that foolish 200 million dollar flop!
Ted in Michigan
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Reuters, by Sally Huang*
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Posted By: NorthernDog- 4/24/2013 10:44:41 AM
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BEIJING - A confrontation involving axes, knives, at least one gun and ending with the burning down of a house left 21 people dead in China´s troubled far-west region of Xinjiang, a government spokeswoman said on Wednesday, calling it a "terrorist attack". It was the deadliest violence in the region since July 2009, when Xinjiang´s capital, Urumqi, was rocked by clashes between majority Han Chinese and minority Uighurs that killed nearly 200 people. Nine residents, six police and six ethnic Uighurs were killed in Tuesday´s drama, said Hou Hanmin, spokeswoman for the Xinjiang government.
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Progressive publication Mother Jones has revealed yet another secretly-recorded video of a Republican saying something newsworthy. This time, it’s of GOP pollster and frequent Fox News analyst Frank Luntz remarking that Rush Limbaugh, Mark Levin, and other right-wing talk radio hosts are “problematic” for the Republican Party’s efforts to reach out to other demographics and to fight the polarization of politics. The video was recorded on an iPhone while Luntz delivered a College Republicans-sponsored speech at the University of Pennsylvania earlier this week. Most of his speech reportedly consisted of his thoughts on how words matter — for
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As Obamacare was winding its way through the Senate in 2009, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R., Iowa) slipped in an amendment requiring that members of Congress, and their staff, enroll in Obamacare’s health insurance exchanges. The idea was simple: that if Congress was going to impose Obamacare upon the country, it should have to experience what it is imposing firsthand. But now, word comes that Congress is quietly seeking to rescind that provision of the law, because members fear that staffers who face higher insurance costs will leave the Hill. The news has sparked outrage
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During an April 24 address to the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF), Attorney General Eric Holder told the crowd that “creating a pathway to earned citizenship” is a critical element of any comprehensive immigration reform plan. He said that establishing legal status for the nation’s estimated 11 million illegal immigrants is a “matter of civil and human rights.” “Creating a pathway to earned citizenship for the 11 million unauthorized immigrants in this country is essential,” Holder said to applause. “The way we treat our friends and neighbors who are undocumented by creating a mechanism for
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Sins Of The Fourth Estate (Part I)
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Irish Examiner USA, by Alicia Colon
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Posted By: toledo- 4/25/2013 6:33:30 AM
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The one clear thing that came out of last week´s chaotic activity in Boston, Massachusetts is that real reporters were missing. For that matter, they´ve been missing since last year´s attack in Benghazi. From Benghazi, the Gosnell abortion trial, gun control debates, immigration and then the Boston Marathon bombings, television news reporting has become positively painful to watch. The First Amendment to the Constitution grants freedom of the press but this was supposed to endow it with a responsibility to be the people´s watchdog. The modern Fourth Estate represented by the mainstream media has made a mockery of this privilege.
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Newsbusters, by Tim Graham
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Posted By: Dreadnought- 4/25/2013 7:39:06 AM
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The leftists at Mother Jones are brandishing another secret tape. Pollster Frank Luntz, denounced as too conservative by liberals when he turns up on liberal networks, told a group of college students at the University of Pennsylvania this week that Rush Limbaugh and right-wing talk radio are "problematic" for the GOP and that he and Mark Levin were “killing” Marco Rubio for his immigration proposals. Democrats have “got every other source of news on their side. And so that is a lot of what´s driving it. If you take—Marco Rubio´s getting his ass kicked. Who´s
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Bush’s legacy keeps getting worse
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Washington Post, by Eugene Robinson
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Posted By: Dreadnought- 4/25/2013 10:47:05 PM
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In retrospect, George W. Bush’s legacy doesn’t look as bad as it did when he left office. It looks worse. I join the nation in congratulating Bush on the opening of his presidential library in Dallas. Like many people, I find it much easier to honor, respect and even like the man — now that he’s no longer in the White House. But anyone tempted to get sentimental should remember the actual record of the man who called himself The Decider. Begin with the indelible stain that one of his worst decisions left on our country’s honor: torture.
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