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JOSH DHANI
Oh man, wouldn’t everyone want to be Buehrle’s shoes? EVERYONE wants to be in this dear man’s shoes. I mean just look at this guy. He has a gorgeous wife, won a World Series not too long ago, and hell, he threw a no-hitter in 2007.
But he just did something that topped them all [...]

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Only this time was perfect
SCOTT JACOBS
Roy Halladay may be the best, but today Mark Buerhle was perfect.
Add that to a World Series ring, and a no hitter, and the fact that it was against the 2008 AL Champion Rays, and well, not bad Mark, not bad at all.
Just a few weeks removed from Johnathan Sanchez’s [...]

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It’s the series that won’t end.  Like the Energizer bunny it just keeps going and going and going…
SCOTT JACOBS
Tonight’s the night!  No seriously, they’re going to finish this unprecedented suspended game five tonight.  It’s going to happen.  It’s going to start at 8:37, last nine innings (wouldn’t that be fitting if it went 15 [...]

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Tampa Bay looks over-matched, the Phillies are rolling, and I just don’t see a whole lot of reason right now for the Rays to be optimistic.
SCOTT JACOBS
Pick up a phone, find Terry Francona’s number and put it on speed-dial. For the duration of this less then exciting World Series, the Rays should keep [...]

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Brad Lidge is once again lights out as the Phillies survive the Rays 3-2 in game one
SCOTT JACOBS
The Rays may be the comeback kids, but Brad Lidge is a totally different animal.
Lidge came out in the ninth, completely shut down Tampa Bay’s potent offense, and the Phillies walked out of game one with a [...]

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Relive the final two and a half innings from a sports blogger’s point of view from an epic game seven
SCOTT JACOBS
Okay, so they’re not going to Disneyworld. Well, not yet at least, but Tampa Bay is going to the World Series after holding off the pesky World Champion Red Sox in a thrilling [...]

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Just what in the world does a team have to do to dispatch these pesky Red Sox?
SCOTT JACOBS
The thrill of victory. The agony of blowing a seven run lead. Tampa Bay was so close.
Up 7-0 in the top of the seventh, just nine outs away from the most improbable turnaround in recent [...]

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The Red Sox stun the Rays, coming back from a 7-0 deficit to win 8-7 on a walkoff hit in the ninth inning
SCOTT JACOBS 
It’s the second largest comeback in baseball playoff history, and it comes from the team that just refuses to die! The Boston Red Sox, king of the comeback, have done it again.  [...]

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