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(Although I certainly DO love the Friday Night Fireworks, even if I do wish they'd play em to something with a beat instead of all that sappy old stuff from the 70s…)Meanwhile, in what was replica Longines L4.217.6.22.6 watch to be the main attraction, the GAME, Bud Norris looked, sigh, well, not good.He got out of the first giving up only 1 run a homer to the same guy that hit one out in the first inning yesterday on a FB right down the middle.Second inning, he started off fine, getting a swinging K, a nice 5-3, and then he could NOT find the strike zone even if they had put flashing neon signs around it and there went the ballgame.

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