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		<title>Just call Charlie the best manager in Phillies history</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 21:37:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the days after the Phillies surged to within a Cubs’ base hit [1]from forging a one-game playoff with the Astros for the 2005 wild card, I wrote a long, season-ending story about the things it would be wise for then-GM Ed Wade to do.
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		<title>Hot time in the old town with the hot corner</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 05:25:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Without so much as a flick of an eyelash, general manager Ruben Amaro Jr. set the Phillies’ offseason into full swing. He didn’t have to issue a statement, hold a press conference or even sign anything.
Hell, he didn’t even have to answer any questions because that was already handled for the GM by other people. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=johnfinger.com&blog=1738902&post=3679&subd=fingerfood&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Make a deal? Cole Hamels is no Rick Wise</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2009 19:31:42 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Cole Hamels]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Roy Halladay]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A quick look at his career transactions shows that Rick Wise was involved in a couple of franchise-changing moves. In two of the instances, trading away Wise actually benefited the team that got rid of him.
That’s definitely not a knock on Wise or his career. The fact is he was pretty good with more highlight [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=johnfinger.com&blog=1738902&post=3672&subd=fingerfood&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>World Series: Injury to Insult</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2009 01:47:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Mariano Rivera]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This very well may be a case of injury adding to insult. In fact, it’s a two-fold thing… call it a rich tapestry of absurdness and irony. Like an onion, this story has many layers and the more that is peeled, the more it stinks.
OK, that might be a bit dramatic, but it truly is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=johnfinger.com&blog=1738902&post=3668&subd=fingerfood&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>From the I-told-you-so file, I told you so&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2009 00:10:14 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Raul Ibanez]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Whiny little ed. note: It was announced on Saturday that Raul Ibanez will have surgery to fix a sports hernia. No surprise here. In fact, we were hearing that Ibanez had the injury dating back to late May and early June. It&#8217;s just that the Phillies and Raul would never admit anything.
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		<title>World Series: Howard&#8217;s End</title>
		<link>http://johnfinger.com/2009/11/07/world-series-howards-end/</link>
		<comments>http://johnfinger.com/2009/11/07/world-series-howards-end/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 07:27:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jrfinger</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[World Series]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Mike Schmidt]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[NEW YORK—In 1983, Mike Schmidt had one of those playoff series that people remember forever. In four games against the Dodgers in the NLCS, he very well could have been the MVP if ol’ Sarge Matthews hadn’t hit three homers and driven in eight runs in four games.
The fact of the matter is that Schmidt [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=johnfinger.com&blog=1738902&post=3653&subd=fingerfood&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Word Series: Dynasty delayed</title>
		<link>http://johnfinger.com/2009/11/05/word-series-dynasty-delayed/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 20:58:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[NEW YORK—The scene always looks so solemn on television. After the final out of the World Series the winners dance, whoop it up and dump gallons of champagne and beer all over each other in some sort of bizarre and borderline illegal ritual.
It’s always a weird place to be no matter the circumstance and reminds [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=johnfinger.com&blog=1738902&post=3646&subd=fingerfood&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>World Series: When Reggie met Chase</title>
		<link>http://johnfinger.com/2009/11/05/world-series-when-reggie-met-chase/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 00:51:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jrfinger</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Chase Utley]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[NEW YORK—When people think of Reggie Jackson’s baseball career, inevitably the three-homer performance in Game 6 of the 1977 is the first moment that comes to mind. Three pitches have not just defined a man’s professional career, but also his life.
Reggie Jackson and Babe Ruth are the only players to hit three home runs in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=johnfinger.com&blog=1738902&post=3641&subd=fingerfood&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Running through Ryan&#8217;s park</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 01:18:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jrfinger</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ryan Shay]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Central Park]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Meb Keflezighi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NYC Marathon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ryan Hall]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[NEW YORK—There is nothing to indicate where the exact spot occurred, but for those who take their runs through Central Park, they don’t need a marker or some sort of designation for where it happened.
We can feel it.
Just north of the Boat House, approximately the 5.5 mile mark of the men’s marathon Olympic Trials that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=johnfinger.com&blog=1738902&post=3634&subd=fingerfood&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>World Series: Betting on Hamels in Game 7</title>
		<link>http://johnfinger.com/2009/11/04/world-series-betting-on-hamels-in-game-7/</link>
		<comments>http://johnfinger.com/2009/11/04/world-series-betting-on-hamels-in-game-7/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:27:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jrfinger</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[World Series]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Charlie]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Mitch Williams]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[NEW YORK—The sun was due to hit the horizon at any minute. At least that’s what I’d heard. The month of October is a blur when you’re chasing around a baseball team. In fact, another writer pointed out that yesterday was Monday and I stared at him for a long moment. It didn’t feel like [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=johnfinger.com&blog=1738902&post=3630&subd=fingerfood&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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