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Your Bad Pitcher, Part I: This poor guy had a historically awful outing this week, surrendering
11 earned runs in just one inning of work:
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Lance McCullers
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Tommy Hanson
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Jeremy Guthrie
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Ubaldo Jimenez
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Your Bad Pitcher, Part II: Meanwhile, futility of a different sort was set as this hurler has started his career by going 0-for-58 at the plate:
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Jon Lester
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Jason Hammel
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Dan Haren
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Zack Greinke
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A fairly significant occurrence occurred on Memorial Day, as this university became the first non-Eastern school to win the men's college lacrosse championship:
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Texas Tech
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Denver
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UC Santa Barbara
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Boise State
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HBO came knockin' and settled on this NFL team as the subject for this summer's Hard Knocks series:
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The Colts
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The Texans
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The Dolphins
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The Jets
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Days ahead of the sadly inevitable re-election of FIFA boss/Bond villain Sepp Blatter, this body handed down corruption indictments against several FIFA bigshots:
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United Nations
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Interpol
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United States
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Scotland Yard
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In a move we just can't understand, this NBA team fired its head coach:
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Bulls
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Wizards
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Heat
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Clippers
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In other Tales from the Association, the 45-day layoff before the finals gives us time to ask out to add the seeds of the two teams vying for the championship together, resulting in this number:
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5
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2
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6
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3
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And in hockey, this unusual happening happened in the conference finals:
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Both conference finals were sweeps
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Both conference finals were decided with a 1-0 game
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Both conference finals were decided in overtime
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Both conference finals went to Game 7
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As May turned into June, we look at the baseball standings and find this wacky pair leading their respective AL divisions:
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Minnesota and Seattle
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Minnesota and Houston
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Chicago and Seattle
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Chicago and Houston
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Meanwhile, in the NL, this team holds the best record in all of baseball:
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Washington
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St. Louis
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Los Angeles
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San Francisco
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