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	<title>John Strubel</title>
	<link>http://johnstrubel.com</link>
	<description>Freelance Journalist</description>
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		<title>Mejia impressive, but no Mo</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Jenrry Mejia story is accelerating faster than a defective Toyota without brakes.]]></description>
		<link>http://johnstrubel.com/2010/03/mejia-impressive-but-no-mo/</link>
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		<title>Lastings Impression</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Potential. That’s the word that may eventually haunt Lastings Milledge most. Not now. No, he is still only 24 years old, and has the time and, er, potential to silence his naysayers.
Potential has two definitions in sports: one, for a prospect, rookie or young professional like Milledge, potential is a hopeful, optimistic word. The second [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://johnstrubel.com/2010/03/lastings-impression/</link>
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		<title>Chelsie Snipes: Run for your Freedom</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tears roll down Chelsie Snipes’ cheeks when she begins talking about her brother David. They are tears of sadness, tears of frustration and tears of fear.
In January, Snipes sat in a car packed with her parents, grandmother, cousin and future sister-in-law on the edge of Camp LeJeune Marine Corps base in Jacksonville, North Carolina, and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://johnstrubel.com/2010/03/chelsie-snipes-run-for-your-freedom/</link>
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		<title>Gone Fishing</title>
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There are no Halls of Fame for teachers. If there were, Charleston Southern University professors Dr. Jim Barrier and Mr. Steve Best would be enshrined in the biology wing.
They’ve put up Hall of Fame numbers. Working side by side in the biology department at CSU since 1973, Barrier and Best have 77 years combined teaching [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://johnstrubel.com/2010/03/gone-fishing/</link>
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		<title>&#8216;Accounted For&#8217; in Haiti</title>
		<description><![CDATA[All Heather Pipkin Gray wanted to know was that her family was OK. That’s all. “I would be happy to just have an e-mail that said, ‘We’re OK,’ that they signed themselves,” she said. “It’s like they’re ghosts right now.”]]></description>
		<link>http://johnstrubel.com/2010/02/accounted-for-in-haiti/</link>
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		<title>Chance of Rain: 100%</title>
		<description><![CDATA[British author and statistician Dennis Lindley wrote, “We are not concerned with the matter that is uncertain; it is only the manipulation of uncertainty that interests us. Thus we do not study the mechanism of rain; only whether it will rain.”
And so it is.
This winter, the New York Mets are baseball’s definition of uncertainty. There [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://johnstrubel.com/2010/01/chance-of-rain-100/</link>
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		<title>Winter of Reckoning, Spring of Hope</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hope is faith holding out its hand in the dark. – George Iles
It was all Jairy C. Hunter Jr. had. He embraced it, challenged it, questioned it, looked through the dark clouds above and, because of it, saw blue skies in the offing.
It was hope.
Now, 25 years after accepting the enormous responsibility of reviving a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://johnstrubel.com/2010/01/a-winter-of-reckoning-a-spring-of-hope/</link>
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		<title>Backstory: Sidd Finch at 25</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ “There’s no single sport that has the hold on our dreams and fantasies the way baseball does. Sidd has become a symbol, like the cornfield in Iowa.” — Myra Gelband, former Sports Illustrated editor

In an era when Hollywood was creating uniformed ballplayers walking out of cornfields and crushing majestic moon shots in to the New [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://johnstrubel.com/2010/01/sidd-finch-from-phenom-to-phenomenon/</link>
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		<title>Mets B Plan will get B results</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Monday it was reported John Lackey had agreed to a five-year, $85 million contract with the Boston Red Sox. Before the close of business today expect the official announcement of the completion a blockbuster three-team trade that will make Roy Halladay a Philadelphia Phillie.]]></description>
		<link>http://johnstrubel.com/2009/12/mets-b-plan-will-get-b-results-2/</link>
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		<title>Are wins irrelevant?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Since last week’s announcement of the National and American League Cy Young Award winners, a bubbling debate has begun over the value of a “win” placed on a pitchers statistical line. For the record, San Francisco Giant ace Tim Lincecum, the NL winner, recorded 15 wins. Kansas City Royal pitcher Zack Grienke won the AL Cy Young award with 16 wins.]]></description>
		<link>http://johnstrubel.com/2009/11/are-wins-irrelevant-2/</link>
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