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		<title>Hochuli In Verse</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 04:55:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kuiperfan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[NFL]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://sijoeposnanski.wordpress.com/?p=8825</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[NFL Referee Ed Hochuli&#8217;s 57-second explanation of the new NFL overtime rules &#8230; in verse. With the score tied at the end of regulation we will go into overtime There are special overtime rules in the playoffs Both teams get an opportunity to possess the football with one exception That one exception is a touchdown [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=joeposnanski.si.com&amp;blog=13729311&amp;post=8825&amp;subd=sijoeposnanski&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ali Turns 70</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 22:27:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kuiperfan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Boxing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Essays]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://sijoeposnanski.wordpress.com/?p=8812</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Muhammad Ali turned 70 on Monday, and it prompts this question: Who among today&#8217;s sports stars will be the toughest to explain to future generations? Who will be the athlete who, years and years from now, will have us spluttering and shouting at some young and clueless kid, until finally we are left only with, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=joeposnanski.si.com&amp;blog=13729311&amp;post=8812&amp;subd=sijoeposnanski&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Offense First</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 03:42:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kuiperfan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[NFL]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://sijoeposnanski.wordpress.com/?p=8798</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The New England Patriots are trying to do something that, best I can tell, has never been done in NFL history. They are trying to become the first outdoor team to win a Super Bowl with a great offense and a lousy defense, at least by the statistics. I have no idea if they can [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=joeposnanski.si.com&amp;blog=13729311&amp;post=8798&amp;subd=sijoeposnanski&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Playoff Is Coming</title>
		<link>http://joeposnanski.si.com/2012/01/13/a-playoff-is-coming/</link>
		<comments>http://joeposnanski.si.com/2012/01/13/a-playoff-is-coming/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 14:24:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kuiperfan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[College Football]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[So here&#8217;s a little peek into how things work in the real world. For a long time, big-time college football fans from all over have been protesting, screaming, complaining and railing against the establishment because there is no playoff. Columnists have written screeds. Authors have written books. High-profile coaches have given speeches. Fans have expressed [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=joeposnanski.si.com&amp;blog=13729311&amp;post=8790&amp;subd=sijoeposnanski&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Long Hall of Fame Review</title>
		<link>http://joeposnanski.si.com/2012/01/09/a-long-hall-of-fame-review/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 00:54:00 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Baseball]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[My predictions so rarely come true that I find it comforting, when I actually get one right, to pause and be awed by the sheer unlikeliness of it. This time around, I predicted that Jack Morris would take a huge jump forward in the Hall of Fame voting in 2012 &#8212; I said that his [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=joeposnanski.si.com&amp;blog=13729311&amp;post=8779&amp;subd=sijoeposnanski&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Barry Larkin and the Gut Factor</title>
		<link>http://joeposnanski.si.com/2012/01/09/barry-larkin-and-the-gut-factor/</link>
		<comments>http://joeposnanski.si.com/2012/01/09/barry-larkin-and-the-gut-factor/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2012 20:01:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lburke0220</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Baseball]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://joeposnanski.si.com/?p=8770</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[So, in honor of Barry Larkin&#8217;s election into the Hall of Fame, I have been thinking a lot about what we mean when we say that a player FEELS like a Hall of Famer. I call it the GF &#8212; the Gut Factor. Barry Larkin, as great a player as he was, did not have [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=joeposnanski.si.com&amp;blog=13729311&amp;post=8770&amp;subd=sijoeposnanski&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Future (and Past) of the HOF</title>
		<link>http://joeposnanski.si.com/2012/01/03/the-future-and-past-of-the-hall-of-fame/</link>
		<comments>http://joeposnanski.si.com/2012/01/03/the-future-and-past-of-the-hall-of-fame/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 14:22:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kuiperfan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Baseball]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://sijoeposnanski.wordpress.com/?p=8749</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s all well and good to say that the next three baseball Hall of Fame ballots will be &#8220;unprecedented.&#8221; I&#8217;ve written that a few times, and it sounds good. Next year&#8217;s ballot will include: Barry Bonds, Roger Clemens, Curt Schilling, Craig Biggio, Sammy Sosa, Mike Piazza and Kenny Lofton. The 2014 ballot will include: Greg [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=joeposnanski.si.com&amp;blog=13729311&amp;post=8749&amp;subd=sijoeposnanski&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Penalties Record</title>
		<link>http://joeposnanski.si.com/2012/01/01/the-penalties-record/</link>
		<comments>http://joeposnanski.si.com/2012/01/01/the-penalties-record/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jan 2012 00:46:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kuiperfan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[NFL]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://sijoeposnanski.wordpress.com/?p=8736</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The 1998 Kansas City Chiefs were the least-disciplined pro football team I have ever seen. They were probably the least-disciplined team I&#8217;ve ever seen on any level &#8212; NFL, Canadian, Arena, college, high school, Pee-Wee, Electronic &#8212; but I don&#8217;t want to exaggerate things. I have seen some pretty undisciplined Electronic Football teams &#8212; those [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=joeposnanski.si.com&amp;blog=13729311&amp;post=8736&amp;subd=sijoeposnanski&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>F.C. Lane</title>
		<link>http://joeposnanski.si.com/2012/01/01/f-c-lane/</link>
		<comments>http://joeposnanski.si.com/2012/01/01/f-c-lane/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jan 2012 20:10:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kuiperfan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Baseball]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://sijoeposnanski.wordpress.com/?p=8727</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[There once lived a fascinating man named Ferdinand Cole Lane, who for much of his life went by the initials &#8220;F.C.&#8221; because, well, his name was Ferdinand Cole. F.C. Lane lived to be 98 years old, and in his long life did a great many things. He wrote a book about insects, another about trees, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=joeposnanski.si.com&amp;blog=13729311&amp;post=8727&amp;subd=sijoeposnanski&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The MVP Formula</title>
		<link>http://joeposnanski.si.com/2011/12/29/the-mvp-formula/</link>
		<comments>http://joeposnanski.si.com/2011/12/29/the-mvp-formula/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Dec 2011 15:57:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kuiperfan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Baseball]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[As you might imagine, I did not plan on writing a 7,000-word post on MVPs. This was supposed to just be a two-paragraph aside about Babe Ruth in my last Hall of Fame post. But, you know, sometimes these things get out of hand. The starting point was this: Babe Ruth is, more or less, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=joeposnanski.si.com&amp;blog=13729311&amp;post=8713&amp;subd=sijoeposnanski&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>HOF Story 3: The Yea Votes</title>
		<link>http://joeposnanski.si.com/2011/12/27/hof-story-3-the-yea-votes/</link>
		<comments>http://joeposnanski.si.com/2011/12/27/hof-story-3-the-yea-votes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Dec 2011 17:50:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kuiperfan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Baseball]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[People talk all the time about who &#8220;feels&#8221; like a Hall of Famer and who does not. I know exactly what they&#8217;re saying, because I feel those same impulses&#8230; and yet, I don&#8217;t know exactly why it&#8217;s true &#8212; why some players feel like Hall of Famers while others (who might be even better players) [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=joeposnanski.si.com&amp;blog=13729311&amp;post=8702&amp;subd=sijoeposnanski&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hazleton</title>
		<link>http://joeposnanski.si.com/2011/12/25/hazleton/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Dec 2011 20:03:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kuiperfan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Baseball]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[HAZLETON, Pa. &#8212; This is a personal story, though I did not grow up in Hazleton, Pa., and, before last week, had never been there. This is a personal story because I have always believed that sports can help us do great things. Sure, it doesn&#8217;t always work that way. Our games have always prompted [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=joeposnanski.si.com&amp;blog=13729311&amp;post=8692&amp;subd=sijoeposnanski&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>HOF Story 2: The Holdovers</title>
		<link>http://joeposnanski.si.com/2011/12/21/hof-story-2-the-holdovers/</link>
		<comments>http://joeposnanski.si.com/2011/12/21/hof-story-2-the-holdovers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 17:08:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[These are the six players on this year&#8217;s ballot whom I did not vote for last year. One of my rules of Hall of Fame voting is that I try to look at each player in a fresh way every year. Yes, in many ways, that&#8217;s illogical. None of these players has thrown a single [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=joeposnanski.si.com&amp;blog=13729311&amp;post=8660&amp;subd=sijoeposnanski&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Christmastime Is Here</title>
		<link>http://joeposnanski.si.com/2011/12/20/christmastime-is-here/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 21:21:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kuiperfan</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://sijoeposnanski.wordpress.com/?p=8653</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Kansas City Royals have signed Yuniesky Betancourt. Have you seen the movie &#8220;Megamind,&#8221; where the character, aptly named Megamind, mopes because he no longer has an arch-rival. I have to admit, that&#8217;s a little bit how I felt during the 2011 baseball season. Oh, sure, Yuni was still around, but he was with a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=joeposnanski.si.com&amp;blog=13729311&amp;post=8653&amp;subd=sijoeposnanski&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>HOF Story 1: First-Timers</title>
		<link>http://joeposnanski.si.com/2011/12/20/hof-story-1-first-timers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 16:13:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kuiperfan</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://sijoeposnanski.wordpress.com/?p=8641</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t want this to sound wrong, but the Baseball Hall of Fame ballot is kind of a disappointment. I don&#8217;t mean the players on it. I mean the actual ballot itself. It&#8217;s simply a plain sheet of paper with names printed on it and little boxes to check. It could be the ballot for [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=joeposnanski.si.com&amp;blog=13729311&amp;post=8641&amp;subd=sijoeposnanski&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hollas and Tebow</title>
		<link>http://joeposnanski.si.com/2011/12/17/hollas-and-tebow/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Dec 2011 20:48:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kuiperfan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Not so many years ago, Chardon Jimmy and I would play ruthless, death-defying games of Strat-o-Matic football. It&#8217;s fair to say, I suppose, that we invested way too much of ourselves into those games because we were shallow young men. But I don&#8217;t think that was the reason. The real reason is that I&#8217;m a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=joeposnanski.si.com&amp;blog=13729311&amp;post=8629&amp;subd=sijoeposnanski&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Real Albert Pujols</title>
		<link>http://joeposnanski.si.com/2011/12/12/the-real-albert-pujols/</link>
		<comments>http://joeposnanski.si.com/2011/12/12/the-real-albert-pujols/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2011 17:26:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kuiperfan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Baseball]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://sijoeposnanski.wordpress.com/?p=8614</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Albert Pujols has been the best player in baseball for eight or nine years now. Let&#8217;s say eight years &#8212; 2004 was the last great year of Barry Bonds, but by then Bonds was such a freak (he was intentionally walked 120 times that year) that he was really in a different category from any [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=joeposnanski.si.com&amp;blog=13729311&amp;post=8614&amp;subd=sijoeposnanski&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Is It Christmas</title>
		<link>http://joeposnanski.si.com/2011/12/07/is-it-christmas/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Dec 2011 16:57:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My editor points out this wonderful website called IsItChristmas, where you go to find out, well, &#8220;Is it Christmas?&#8221; I have to admit, I&#8217;ve found the site to be of great use to me. It&#8217;s like a Magic Eight Ball site where I can ask all sorts of questions and get a calm, yet firm [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=joeposnanski.si.com&amp;blog=13729311&amp;post=8609&amp;subd=sijoeposnanski&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ron Santo: Hall of Famer</title>
		<link>http://joeposnanski.si.com/2011/12/05/ron-santo-hall-of-famer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2011 00:26:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kuiperfan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m thrilled to see Ron Santo gain induction into the Baseball Hall of Fame &#8212; the veteran&#8217;s committee voted him in on Monday. I&#8217;ve been lobbying for Santo for a long time, and I think this is long overdue. But I also think his induction now is bittersweet … and we should view it as [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=joeposnanski.si.com&amp;blog=13729311&amp;post=8601&amp;subd=sijoeposnanski&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hits 4,256, Steroids 0</title>
		<link>http://joeposnanski.si.com/2011/12/05/hits-4256-steroids-0/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Dec 2011 14:43:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is pure awesomeness (hat tip to Reds Country). I like Pete Rose. I think he&#8217;s funny and a good storyteller, and I think he was one heck of a ballplayer. I also think that he should be on the Baseball Hall of Fame ballot and let the chips fall &#8212; though I honestly don&#8217;t [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=joeposnanski.si.com&amp;blog=13729311&amp;post=8591&amp;subd=sijoeposnanski&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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