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UPDATED: Joe Torre can't get behind a Buster Posey-inspired rule
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Stories for October 2012
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189: Hot Stove Time! Light 'Er Up!
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Times Leader 06-11-2013, PDF, Edward Snowden
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Times Leader 06-13-2013, PDF, Juvenile Delinquency
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