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Mike Lowell's Hip Injury Scary..Even To Bo

July 1st 2009 15:23

Remember the Nike 'Bo Knows...." ad campaign? It was great. Bo knew golf, hockey, luge, baseball, and football. Hell, Bo even knew Bo Didley! There was one thing that Bo didn't 'know' though. Bo didn't know how to keep his career afloat after severely injuring his hip--even though he fought like hell and with great vigor to do so. Hip replacement carried him through a couple of painful years but for the most part he was all done. His spirit did however live on through Nintendo Tecmo Super Bowl. God he was awesome in that video game! I digress...

The hips are about as essential to a baseball player as Viagra is to a slightly impotent 75 year old man named Smitty trying to get his groove on one more time with a 'hot' 65 year old 'dame' he met down the TCFB Pub while his wife wasn't around. Very essential! I can't think of a position outside of pitcher where your hip rotation is any more important than third base. Quick crossover to his right to stab a ball heading down the line or to his left toward the hole. Third base defensively is all about ultra-quick reaction no matter what level of ball you're playing, never mind pro ball. Your power is greatly affected at the plate as well. The explosive hip rotation that is required out of a power hitter is off the charts and if you suffer a hip injury like Lowell has it hurts you so much in that regard. Look at his overall numbers in June since the hip has been acting up on him again.

Am I saying that I think it's over for Mike Lowell in his mid-thirties? No. What I am saying though is that a hip injury is just flat out scary no matter how you slice it. It's a very tough and tricky injury to come back from as an athlete. Lowell is a huge class act and a hell of a ballplayer for someone who many in Boston considered to be a 'throw in' when the trade with the Marlins happened for Josh Beckett. I hope this turns out to be a minor bump in the road on his overall road to recovery. With that being said, Theo and the boys on Yawkey Way must have their gears spinning as we speak, on what to do in case this isn't just a minor bump. Time is of the essence now, the trading deadline is rapidly approaching and the Sox are in great postion to grab their third World Series title in the last six years.

Chuck Hanf
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Two Cents Trivia Winner---From June 30, 2009

July 1st 2009 12:53

Congrats to the "Two Cents" Trivia Winner from yesterday's contest.....

Amy Elizabeth ...

( No R Lifestyle will be sending you a link via email so you can order up your "Hub of Champions" T-shirt)

The correct answer was MO VAUGHN...

The traffic to the site and individual readers yesterday was excellent! Still need more participation though... Help me spread the word on Tuesday Trivia..

Look out later this morning for my post on #25 Mike Lowell..

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Two Cents Trivia Tuesday---June 30, 2009

June 30th 2009 14:44

It's Trivia Tuesday once again on the Two Cents blog, I want to thank No ‘R’ Lifestyle out of Medford, MA for providing TCFB with their “Hub of Champions” T-shirt line as a winning prize to the weekly winner. Click on No ‘R’ Lifestyle company name to view the shirt. I have their name highlighted. Very cool design.

Also, a big thanks goes out to Joe Soehn from Sports Trivia Buff for providing TCFB with some great trivia questions. To check out Joe’s site click on Sports Trivia Buff highlighted above.

Here's this weeks question..... Prior to Dustin Pedroia's MVP season in 2008, name the last Red Sox player to win the American League MVP award.

Email your answers to (click my name..... Chuck Hanf ) Deadline to answer is by 8:30 pm EST tonight.

The winner will be drawn from the pool of everyone who answered correctly, and will be announced tomorrow on the blog. If you haven’t signed up for automatic updates on the Two Cents From Beantown blog page, I suggest you do so. That way you will be notified when I post the winners name each Wednesday. Otherwise just try to remember to check in on the blog Wednesday for the announcement of the winner. After the winner is announced I will send No ‘R’ Lifestyle the email address of the winner and they will in turn send the winner a link to click onto their website and chose what color and size you want your “Hub of Champions” T-shirt. Include your actual name in the email when you send me your answers. At least your first name so I can announce that on the blog, the next day. Your email address WILL NOT be made public or used on the blog. No worries. I will only forward that to No ‘R’ Lifestyle so they can contact you via email for your T-shirt.

Also, I 'd like to ask you guys to check out an awesome site out of Pennsylvania, (click on name to view) The Bar Room Blitz These guys are friends of mine and do a great job. Entertaining as all hell! Great sports talk webcast near Phillie country! Mostly Philly fans with a dash of Mets fan (my cousin Doug Shaw) thrown in. Check it out!

Chuck Hanf
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Times Writer Questions Athlete, But Blogger Can’t?

June 29th 2009 13:20

Take a look at the quote below by L.A. Times writer Jerry Crowe on the best hitter in baseball--in my opinion--Albert Pujols.

“Thanks to Ramirez, Alex Rodriguez, Barry Bonds, Mark McGwire, Sammy Sosa, etc., fans outside St. Louis must wonder, 'Do we celebrate Albert Pujols or suspect him?' . . .
Pujols has batted four times with the bases loaded this season and three times has hit grand slams. . . .
In his only other at-bat with the bases loaded, the St. Louis Cardinals slugger delivered only a two-run single. . . .
Sadly, it makes you wonder. . . .”

So who can say what now? Jerry Crowe is a journalist at the Los Angeles Times and Jerod Morris is a sports blogger. When Morris brought up Raul Ibanez' monstrous first half of the season for the Philadelphia Phillies on his blog, and the fact that in these days when someone of his age puts up eye-popping power numbers in bunches like that--it makes you wonder about possible use of Performance Enhancements--he was crucified by some "mainstream" journalists. Ken Rosenthal blasted him on ESPN saying that he shouldn't just throw out accusations on someone and be irresponsible without having facts that Ibanez actually used PED's. When is Rosenthal going to weigh in on Jerry Crowe saying what he said about Albert Pujols? Or is it ok for Crowe to say it because he's a "real" journalist? I like Ken Rosenthal and I'm a huge fan of his work, but it's time to realize that media is changing. You can state your opinion on something in a blog, the same way you can write an opinion piece on something in a newspaper. Jerod Morris' post on Raul Ibanez was very well written and brought some very good information to the table. Ibanez can save his comments about not needing to hear the opinion of some "45 year old blogger who lives in his mama's basement."He clearly didn’t even bother to read the post by Morris before commenting or he would’ve known that Morris was defending Ibanez more than anything else in that piece. In my opinion as long as you produce a well written case to support your opinion, it's fair game. I hate bloggers who just peddle smut or write about stupid topics just to get attention. Trust me, I'm well aware that there are plenty out there that fit that bill. Personally, I always try to be responsible about everything I write but also give you my true opinion on the issues. The fact of the matter is that there are many well informed sports bloggers out there as well, who have an opinion and state their case quite well. What's wrong with that? Does it make some mainstream journalists upset because a blogger can be anyone and just start their own blog at anytime without necessarily having a degree in journalism? Probably.... but to me it just makes things a lot more interesting. Bottom line, if it's written well and the topics are interesting, the more the merrier. Everyone has a forum now. Just filter out the blogs that have garbage for content, and enjoy the blogs that are well done--it's that simple. Personally, I have no problem with what Jerry Crowe wrote, but then again, I had no problem with what Jerod Morris wrote about Ibanez either--yet a lot of other people did. So what are the rules--and who can write what? Are there two sets of rules?

(thanks to todonitido for great pic of Pujols)

Chuck Hanf
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The World According To Smitty

June 25th 2009 13:47

Ran into my buddy Smitty down at the Two Cents From Beantown Pub yesterday. It’s been a while since I ran into ole coot. Last time I ran into him we were discussing Big Papi’s power outage and I wrote about our conversation on Sports Fan 4 (click on to view post). It’s always tons of fun when Smitty has one too many down the pub and decides he wants to let himself be heard…..

“Hey Chuckie, I read your piece on the whole ‘Dora The Explorer’ (click on to view post) situation that you wrote about on your blooog.” To which I responded, “you mean blog Smitty?” “Yeah, blooog, blog whatever the hell it is. Did you know that my older brother Sully’s wife Sinead took part in those Olympic games?” “No, you never mentioned that before Smitty”, I said. “Yeah well, she did, ok, and do you know she remembered that German Troll Dora when I told her about your write up and had her read it?” “Jesus Smitty, ‘German Troll’, isn’t that a little harsh?”, I replied. “Well what the hell would you call that piece of work?” “I don’t know Smitty, haha.. go on”… “Anyway, Sinead remembered what she thought was a she, that actually turned out to be a he, always looking at her competition and saying ‘I’ve…. Got……Something…. That…..You….Don’t… na-na-na-na-na-nah’, before she took off with that bratwurst taped to her leg! Disgusting Chuckie! Can you believe the balls on that Hitler sonofabitch?” “Ha… Smitty, you are something else my friend. No I can’t believe it happened either, but anything to beat those Americans, ya know Smitty?” “Yeah, I know, I know… just pathetic that’s all. Bartender, grab me and my bloooger friend here another cold one will ya?”

Well, Smitty wasn’t done there. The real reason that he called me over to his stool to talk was because he wanted to connect the whole Dora situation with the recent news this week of the International Olympic Committee saying that they are following developments in the case of the two female gymnasts on China’s 2000 Olympic team who are suspected of being underage.

“What the hell is up with these Asian countries Chuckie? Can you believe friggin China? I hope they get their goddamn medals taken away. I mean, it’s like my old friend Bela Karolyi said, ‘They are using half people!’” “Well Smitty, correct me if I'm wrong, but don't they have to have valid passports and aren't the rules pretty strict on all of that stuff?” “Valid passports.. cmon Chuckie, the government runs everything in China, you know that. They are responsible for creating the goddamn passports. Not only that, back in 1991 that cheating North Korean team had this little girl who they all swore was of age, until she friggin smiled at the camera. You know what everyone saw when she smiled at the camera?” “No”, I said.. “what did everyone see?” “They saw that she was losing her goddamn baby teeth still”, he said. “I mean you’ve got to be kidding me! It’s horrible, these foreigners will try anything to beat us.. from back in the day with that girl Dora and her Dinky.. all the way to right now with the Chinese and their ‘half people’ in gymnastics. I just don’t understand, I mean, remember the Danny Almonte kid? The pitcher for the NY Little League team that made it to the Little League WS and stuff?” “Yes, Smitty, I remember him”, I said. “Well at least when we cheat here in America, we do it right. The Little League maximum age is 12 or 13 and NY struts out this kid Almonte who is 15, and smokes the competition away. Hooray, we win! Hello, dummies!!! I mean, what the hell is wrong with China? They actually cheat by using girls who are younger than the rest! How stupid is that?” “Smitty, that’s the whole idea---that they be younger. Younger and lighter is to your advantage in gymnastics. You made some decent sense up to this point in your argument, but now you’ve had one too many again..”, I said. “Ahhh whatever Chuckie the bloooger, can you call me a cab?” “I got you Smitty, I got you, what’s the number?”

Chuck Hanf
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Two Cents Trivia Winner---From June 23, 2009

June 24th 2009 14:45

Congrats to the "Two Cents" Trivia Winner from yesterday's contest.....

Tommy Guertin...

( No R Lifestyle will be sending you a link via email so you can order up your "Hub of Champions" T-shirt)

The correct answer was IRVING FRYAR (caught a garbage time TD from Steve Grogan in 4th quarter).

The traffic to the site and individual readers yesterday was excellent! Still need more participation though... Help me spread the word on Tuesday Trivia..

Look out tomorrow for my Thursday post when I bring "Smitty" back into the fold from the Two Cents From Beantown Pub.. He's got something he wants to get off his chest. Those who don't remember "Smitty" from my guest article I wrote on Sports Fan 4 click on his name right here in bold "Smitty" and refresh your memories.

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Two Cents Trivia Tuesday---June 23, 2009

June 23rd 2009 13:09

It's Trivia Tuesday once again on the Two Cents blog, I want to thank No ‘R’ Lifestyle out of Medford, MA for providing TCFB with their “Hub of Champions” T-shirt line as a winning prize to the weekly winner. Click on No ‘R’ Lifestyle company name above to view the shirt. I have their name highlighted. Very cool design.

Also, a big thanks goes out to Joe Soehn from Sports Trivia Buff for providing TCFB with some great trivia questions. To check out Joe’s site click on Sports Trivia Buff highlighted above.

Here's this weeks question..... Who scored the first Super Bowl touchdown in New England Patriots history?

Email your answers to (click my name..... Chuck Hanf ) Deadline to answer is by 8:30 pm EST tonight.

The winner will be drawn from the pool of everyone who answered correctly, and will be announced tomorrow on the blog. If you haven’t signed up for automatic updates on the Two Cents From Beantown blog page, I suggest you do so. That way you will be notified when I post the winners name each Wednesday. Otherwise just try to remember to check in on the blog Wednesday for the announcement of the winner. After the winner is announced I will send No ‘R’ Lifestyle the email address of the winner and they will in turn send the winner a link to click onto their website and chose what color and size you want your “Hub of Champions” T-shirt. Include your actual name in the email when you send me your answers. At least your first name so I can announce that on the blog, the next day. Your email address WILL NOT be made public or used on the blog. No worries. I will only forward that to No ‘R’ Lifestyle so they can contact you via email for your T-shirt.

Good Luck! Don't forget to spread the word about "Two Cents" Trivia Tuesday. The more the merrier.

Chuck Hanf
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Paps to NY?.... I Love it!

June 22nd 2009 14:18

It would go a little something like this as Johnny Paps first opened the gates of the bullpen in Yankee Stadium and walked toward the mound to save his first game as a Yankee. A little 'In the Air Tonight' by Phil Collins with a little customization by Paps…

“I can feel it…. coming in the air tonight…boom-boom-boom…New York!..…boom-boom-----boom-boom… Well I’ve been waiting for this moment for all my life…boom-boom-boom…New York! (followed by that great drum sequence that completes that great Phil Collins song)

Maybe I’m a little bit different than a lot of people, because I would absolutely love it if that happened--if he doesn’t stay here in Boston. Don’t get me wrong, I love Papelbon as a closer and I'd love him to remain in Boston. He has everything you want--the guts, the energy, the confidence and the flat out ability that it takes to be able to close games at the major league level. He is the best right now at what he does. He should continue to be the best for a while. However, that doesn’t mean he re-signs with the Red Sox.

I am of the opinion that the Red Sox are going to go really hard after Jason Bay in this offseason. I think Bay has proven to be a guy that thrives under the big city lights of Boston and he's also an everyday player. He has thrived under the pressure and actually lifted his game in the big moments of the past year or so he’s been here. It’s going to take a lot of money to re-sign him though. I guarantee you that the Yankees will go after him hard--especially with Johnny Jesus in the last year of his contract in New York. Little Steinbrenner would love to take Bay away from Beantown and I don’t blame him. The question is, will the Red Sox allow it to happen? I say that they won’t. I say that they probably will end up in a bidding war and will probably overpay for Bay’s services, but to me, it’s all worth it.

Which brings us to Papelbon.. Now he’s not up for free agency yet after 2009 but I believe he will be after the 2010 season. The decision to keep him might not have anything to do with having to spend a boat load of money to keep Jason Bay in Boston--or it might. I don’t do the financials over on Yawkey Way so I wouldn’t know. I don’t believe they are hard up for cash but take a look… With the emergence of flame thrower, Daniel Bard, and with the money that Papelbon is going to command in the open market (he already has said he wants to set the bar for closers) who’s to say that the Sox don’t entertain trades for him after this season or just flat out don’t re-sign him? The have drafted so well over the past bunch of years and now they have a kid like Bard knocking on the door, who won’t command nearly what Papelbon will command for years to come. This has been the biggest difference between New York and Boston over the past 5-8 years--the draft. Boston is deeper than deep right now in the farm. New York is barren. New York must replace free agents that leave, with other free agents for big money. Boston can slide in kids from the farm to fill certain spots on the roster that become vacated--and then spend money on free agents that they want at other spots.

If ‘Shippin Up To Boston’ boy leaves town, where would you want him to go, Boston fans? Would you want him to go to the place all pitchers go to die-- Texas? Would you want him to become a NY Met? A Blue Jay? An LA Angel? A Phillie? C’mon.. I want him in the city that never sleeps--the good ole Evil Empire. I want Johnny Paps center stage in the Bronx. I consider myself a baseball purist but I also love the entertainment/soap opera aspect of the game. Clemens coming back to Boston as a Yankee. Johnny Jesus Damon coming back to Boston as a Yankee. Nick Green leaving New York and discovering the Pesky Pole (ha.. ok, not quite on par with Damon or Clemens, but fun..) It’s great stuff and would make for some great theatrics. Bring it on.

(Thanks to Eric Kilby for that great pic of Paps after beating Rockies in WS '07)

Chuck Hanf
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Happy Father's Day Weekend

June 19th 2009 13:16

I still remember back in the Little League days when my father was coaching my team, the Allston North Little League Yankees (see above photo of me and sis waiting for the ole man to take us to the field! ha). A lot of those games blend together in my head as one big game now of course. Certain games stick out and will always be remembered. Our championship...what a great day!! A classic beatdown! Ha.. As a father, I don’t know if you realize that when you say certain things at that point of a kids life, how much of an impact you can have on your son or daughter. It’s weird how you remember certain instances and things that were said to you as a kid. I remember after one game--in the car on the way home-- I was somewhat bragging about a double that I had hit. It was at that point my father said to me, “if you were running hard instead of watching the ball sail and hit off top of the fence, you would’ve had a triple.” Now, I was a pretty good ballplayer and I was on the cocky side when I was younger when it came to baseball so I needed that to be said to me. At the time though, I remember thinking to myself, what the hell more do I have to do in a game!! I had 3 hits and knocked in a bunch of runs and this guy wants to tell me that if I ran harder instead of admiring a double, that I could’ve had a triple? But, you see, he was absolutely right that night. I remembered that statement and it drove me throughout all of my high school years, right into junior college ball. You don’t take a play off, you don’t admire what you just did--- you run hard. You can brag all you want after a game, but if you don’t go hard at all times and play each day like it might be your last game, you’re cheating the game. Showboating was frowned upon and isn’t how you play the game. My father was complementary toward me when I was playing, but if I wanted to blow my own horn, I better make sure that I had played my hardest or the concert would be interrupted and I’d be dialed down a few notches. Tough love? At the time when you’re a kid, you think so. But as you look back on it as you start to grow up a little, you realize there was a lesson in it. I never took a play off for the rest of my playing days as I got older. That’s what earns you the respect of your peers, teammates and opponents. That’s the way I would teach any son of mine to play the game, hard and with respect for the game. There is no other way.

The lessons that I’ve learned from watching my father in terms of how to be a good husband and how marriage is a two way street are lessons that will never be forgotten-- and now that I’m married I try to implement what I've learned from watching him all these years . The example that he has set for me is something I will take with me forever. Marriage is a partnership with each person contributing equally in the relationship and I don’t think you can find me two people that are better examples of that than my parents. Christ my parents always went food shopping together every week and I now do the same thing with my wife! Every week! Goddamn it…I’m like Rain Man except it’s “ready Michelle, time to go shopping, time to go shopping.” Ha…

Doing things the right way, was always a big thing with my father. There was a right way and a wrong way to do something. Now, looking back, his right way was in fact the right way. It’s funny because the little things that I’d find so annoying as a kid that he’d tell me to do, are now things that I find myself telling my youngest stepson, Mikey, to do. Either that or I’m talking to my wife and telling her I think the kids should do something “this way” not “that way.” Why? Because it’s “the right way to do things.” Where did I hear that before?

Thanks Dad. It’s amazing how many times you were right about things, when I would’ve sworn to Christ you were wrong. Happy Fathers Day! (oh and on some things I still think I was right, by the way… I said most times you were right)

Chuck Hanf
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Random Two Cents---June 18, 2009

June 18th 2009 12:58

My Random ‘Two Cents’ on different issues while perusing the sports news this week…

**OK, pardon me Sir Phil Jackson, but your arrogance was shining through about as brightly as I’ve ever seen arrogance shine through in a human being, when you’re TEAM--the Lakers--won the title in Orlando Sunday night. Those of you who haven’t seen it, take a look at the Zen Master in the above photo with his ‘X’ hat on his head and all his title years on the sides of the hat. That stands for ‘ten’ titles as a head coach in the NBA. Phil needs you to understand that.. Do you understand how important he is?? Do you, goddamn it?? Apparently his agent had the hat made for him and gave it to Phil after the win. Phil--at that point-- should’ve just held on to the hat, put it in his pocket and celebrated with his TEAM. The self promotion of all your world titles with the Bulls and Lakers, by putting that hat on your head--at that time-- is not needed. Also, before anyone asks, it’s not because I’m ticked off that the Lakers won a title and the Celtics didn’t. It’s nothing to do with that. I’m not 12 years old anymore. I’ve just grown really tired of Mr. Zen Master and I’d love for him to consider retirement now that he has his ‘X’. What an annoying tool. Great coach, but a tool.

**The whole Donte Stallworth DUI case is causing waves because he only got 30 days in prison and people don’t think that was enough time etc.. I’m not here to debate that topic with you... I’m here to say that it was a horrible thing that happened that night in Florida when he struck and killed Mario Reyes while Reyes was running across the street to catch a bus. Horrible. Here’s my beef with people on this topic…If you’ve never gotten behind the wheel of your car, after one too many drinks at a cookout or at a restaurant or party somewhere, you have every right to verbally speak out and attack Stallworth for what he did that night. Attack away…. However, if you have done it--and a lot of us have--you have no right to attack him. You just got away with it. Doesn’t make you any better than Stallworth, just because you never had an accident that you very easily could’ve had while under the influence of alcohol and operating a motor vehicle.

**The next Boston fan that I hear complain about not having Hanley Ramirez at shortstop because of the trade, I swear I’m gonna snap. The Hanley/Anibel Sanchez for Beckett/Lowell trade was a trade I’d do again… and again….and again….and again, if we could turn back time and revisit it. A classic no-brainer. A proven ace like Beckett and a hell of a third baseman like Lowell for two unproven yet high upside guys, is a trade a perennial contender like Boston must make every time. Not to mention, when Hanley becomes a free agent after his six years of MLB service time are up, I wonder who’ll be right in the middle of the bidding war to sign him? Maybe some guy from Brookline named Theo?? Whattaya think?

**Tito, I have a lot of respect for you and how you handle things as a manager over on Yawkey Way, but please….stop this six man rotation idea before it even starts. Pitchers--especially starting pitchers-- are creatures of habit. Starters know that they are taking the ball every 5th day and prepare themselves under that scenario. The extra day of rest they will get will have a pitcher like Josh Beckett snorting like a bull,(like Clemens used to do when McNamee rubbed him up and down, inside and out with Icy Hot) and overthrowing because he feels too strong due to the extra rest and it will effect his control.. Same goes for most pitchers when you do something like this. Please, just make the decision--as tough as it may be--to create a mystery injury to Dice-K and give Smoltz a month to prove he belongs or doesn’t belong up here in the five man rotation. Don’t change pitchers’ schedules in June. I don’t care if it’s just briefly. Just my opinion.

**Sammy Sosa took steroids?? Who knew? Shocker of the week! The fact that he had another head sprouting off of his primary head should’ve been a dead giveaway. Or was that just a large third nipple sprouting on his dome? To think, I bought the story about the corked bat just being his batting practice bat and he got mixed up and mistakenly used it in a game. Yeah, sure I did. I bought that… yeaaaahhh. You know what Sammy, go find McGwire and rescue Canseco from his Ultimate Fighting career and give each other forearm bashes and blow kisses to Jesus Christ way up high in the sky until the cows come home. It just makes my man crush with Pedro Martinez in the prime of his career, grow a little bit stronger. Huh Pedro? Think about it pal, you blew away a steroid pharmacy on legs with wooden bats in hand during that ’99 All Star Game at Fenway. Kudos to the best right handed pitcher I’ve ever seen come through Boston since I’ve been alive. To do what you did during that era, is simply incredible. I don’t care if you were a diva and got special treatment or not...you dominated on the field, and that’s all that I’m talking about right now.

Coming tomorrow: A special post for Father’s Day weekend.

Chuck Hanf
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