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	<title>It&#039;s Life</title>
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	<description>Baseball in general, the Mariners in particular</description>
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		<title>For The Rest Of Us!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 00:31:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[“I got a lot of problems with you people! And now you&#8217;re gonna hear about it!” &#8211; Frank Costanza I hope no one takes this post to mean that I don’t like Fan Fest. Because I do. It’s awesome and baseball-y and the sort of connection with the fans that teams should do more of. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=marinermandy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9442869&amp;post=238&amp;subd=marinermandy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Prince Fielder and the Needing for Something</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Jan 2012 00:06:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Give me something to believe, cuz I am living just to breathe, and I need something more to keep on breathing for, so give me something to believe.” &#8211; The Bravery I should love Twitter. I’ve met some great friends on there, I’ve been able to find the 14 people who really actually like the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=marinermandy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9442869&amp;post=233&amp;subd=marinermandy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Eulogy For My Dad</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Jan 2012 18:47:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is the eulogy I read at my Dad&#8217;s memorial service yesterday. It only skims the surface of what he means to me, but I hope it gives even a small bit of perspective into what an amazing person he was. When I was 7, my Dad took me to a Mariners game against the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=marinermandy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9442869&amp;post=228&amp;subd=marinermandy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Occupy Nintendo!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2011 22:35:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[“New car, caviar, four star daydream, think I’ll buy me a football team.” &#8211; Pink Floyd The more I learn about the business of baseball, the more disgust I feel towards the system that sustains baseball. Such a beautiful sport with such an ugly structure. As fans we want to believe in the “organization” &#8211; [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=marinermandy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9442869&amp;post=226&amp;subd=marinermandy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Taste the Turkey</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Nov 2011 21:46:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are plenty of real things to be thankful for this holiday season. Life. Liberty. The pursuit of happiness.  But what I really want to do right now is gloat about how baseball is better than every other sport. I&#8217;m looking at you, NBA, with your drawn out lockout and pending lawsuits. Ha ha ha. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=marinermandy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9442869&amp;post=222&amp;subd=marinermandy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>RIP Greg Halman</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2011 00:49:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[“For of all sad words of tongue or pen,/ The saddest are these: &#8220;It might have been!&#8221;” &#8211; John Greenleaf Whittier I mindlessly scroll through my Twitter feed as I wake up in the morning, only ever expecting to see remnants of late night conversations and columnists rambling about free agency. Little pieces of information [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=marinermandy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9442869&amp;post=218&amp;subd=marinermandy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Trading Heroes For Ghosts</title>
		<link>http://marinermandy.wordpress.com/2011/11/11/trading-heroes-for-ghosts/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Nov 2011 18:46:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It seems natural to just blame the internet. Or the media or the American public for being so invested in this TMZ culture that exposes every ugly ounce of humanity. By now, it should be easy to watch the people we admire crumble and crack into tragic rubble. Philandering politicians, corrupt corporations, Ponzi schemes. Legendary [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=marinermandy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9442869&amp;post=215&amp;subd=marinermandy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Random Nostalgia: Snap Throws and Pudge Rodriguez</title>
		<link>http://marinermandy.wordpress.com/2011/11/06/random-nostalgia-snap-throws-and-pudge-rodriguez/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Nov 2011 16:36:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’ve been a baseball fan long enough now to have watched the full career trajectories of some pretty great players. Most of these players started out or reached their primes in the mid to late 90’s, the time when I was just becoming a full fledged, dyed in wool, never gonna give you up baseball [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=marinermandy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9442869&amp;post=210&amp;subd=marinermandy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Coward&#8217;s Revenge</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Oct 2011 00:02:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Caught a lite sneeze, dreamed a little dream, made my own pretty hate machine.” &#8211; Tori Amos If you’re a baseball fan, you hate the Yankees.  Unless, of course, you’re a Yankee fan, in which case you have some issues that require the assistance of a mental health professional. It’s a long standing tradition, this [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=marinermandy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9442869&amp;post=202&amp;subd=marinermandy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Life Things, Baseball Things</title>
		<link>http://marinermandy.wordpress.com/2011/10/03/life-things-baseball-things/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Oct 2011 00:12:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is a collection of books at my parent’s house that belonged to my grandfather. They are classic novels, bound in a classic way. Whenever I pick up one of these books, feeling the scuffed covers, smelling the yellowed pages, and seeing the bookplate inside reading Lawrence J. Lane, I can see my grandfather with [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=marinermandy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9442869&amp;post=197&amp;subd=marinermandy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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