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	<title>Comments on: Matt Stairs is More Popular Than Santa Claus</title>
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		<title>By: CHAPTER I. THE BIRTH OF THE TELEPHONE - Part 2 &#124; Intro To Phone Calls</title>
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		<dc:creator>CHAPTER I. THE BIRTH OF THE TELEPHONE - Part 2 &#124; Intro To Phone Calls</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Nov 2008 08:55:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>By: Philly Max</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Nov 2008 22:29:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>That Native Son/Native Daughter thing is really primitive and strong. ESPN recently ran an article on what Kelly Pavlic meant to Youngstown (the Yo) - and he means a lot.

With Pavlic, he could move anywhere and still lives and, for the most part, trains in the Yo.

It sounds like Stairs was just coming home - but home a hero.

I remember when Pete Rose was playing in Philly thinking how much a guy can mean to people who just look like him - same type you know. I mean, after Pete, you just gave those Pete Rose looking guys one hell of a lot respect then you had before, at least until they dropped that ball.

It&#039;s a little like that with Stairs - every kid in Fredericton thinks they could grow up to be somebody.

Man, Matt did strike a mighty blow against those Dodgers, no? That was all the way back on October 13th - time flies. Bet a lot of pints got raised in Fredericton that night! Could a been any of em stepped to that plate that night.

Useless stat: • Pinch-hitter Matt Stairs is the first player to debut for a team in September and hit a go-ahead HR for that team in the eighth inning or later in a postseason game. 

Any stat that would get you in trouble in a writing course as a run-on sentence should never be recorded  :-)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>That Native Son/Native Daughter thing is really primitive and strong. ESPN recently ran an article on what Kelly Pavlic meant to Youngstown (the Yo) &#8211; and he means a lot.</p>
<p>With Pavlic, he could move anywhere and still lives and, for the most part, trains in the Yo.</p>
<p>It sounds like Stairs was just coming home &#8211; but home a hero.</p>
<p>I remember when Pete Rose was playing in Philly thinking how much a guy can mean to people who just look like him &#8211; same type you know. I mean, after Pete, you just gave those Pete Rose looking guys one hell of a lot respect then you had before, at least until they dropped that ball.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s a little like that with Stairs &#8211; every kid in Fredericton thinks they could grow up to be somebody.</p>
<p>Man, Matt did strike a mighty blow against those Dodgers, no? That was all the way back on October 13th &#8211; time flies. Bet a lot of pints got raised in Fredericton that night! Could a been any of em stepped to that plate that night.</p>
<p>Useless stat: • Pinch-hitter Matt Stairs is the first player to debut for a team in September and hit a go-ahead HR for that team in the eighth inning or later in a postseason game. </p>
<p>Any stat that would get you in trouble in a writing course as a run-on sentence should never be recorded  <img src='http://citypaper.net/blogs/sports/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':-)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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