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After the cheers had died and tears had dried, Brandon Brennan, a Rule 5 pitcher, was thrust into a tie game in what just happened to be his major-league debut. And with the A's on the verge of taking the lead, Brennan coaxed a double-play ball from Oakland's Robbie Grossman that got him out of the jam.

Taibbi accused the press of covering the Mueller investigation not as a “neutral fact-finding mission” but as something closer to “religious allegory, with Mueller cast as the hero sent to slay the monster.”

Illinois Comptroller Dan Hynes launched his campaign for governor Wednesday by proposing a ‘progressive’ income tax that would more than double the rate paid by millionaires. Hynes’ plan would change the state’s income tax from a flat 3 percent to one that tops out at 7 percent. … Hynes laid out a six-step plan to fix Illinois’ finances. The first leg raises the income tax on only 3 percent of the state’s residents, those making more than $200,000 a year, he said.

From the mid-1880s, the economic power class began to leave the old streets of Whitesboro and Broad, moving to Genesee where they built homes and businesses. This expansion of the city offered new concepts and ideas that gave rise to modern structures.

Residents will have panoramic city and golf course views and an abundance of green space. Kitchens will feature Miele appliances, natural stone countertops, a kitchen island, a wine cooler and designer fixtures. Bathrooms will have rain showers, standalone soaking tubs and dual vanities.

Somewhere along the line, hynes also proposed a tax on so-called elective plastic surgery. I think the proceeds were supposed to go pay for bonds issued to fund research. Or some scheme like that. One problem was his definition of what would be excluded as medically necessary was very restrictive. Haven’t heard much about it sense

So, what was a chukar doing at a bird feeder in suburban New England? Their preferred habitat is steep mountainous terrain - a mixture of brush and grass and low plants. They also like agricultural lands. They like the west. They like dry grasslands. They are the national bird of Pakistan and Iraq. They are definitely not drawn to New England.

^BKN-HEAT-BOSH-SPORTSPLUS:FL—<The moment that led to Tuesday's upcoming retirement of Chris Bosh's No. 1 Miami Heat jersey came in the form of an epiphany.

We put a couple of inches of mud in the bottom of the outer pot and then inserted the smaller one. The void between them was filled. As you do this, the mud wants to sink and elevate the inner pot, so I held the pot down while my teammate, Stephen Pelszynski, fed the mix into the sides. Once we were satisfied that the space was well filled and the lip smoothed, we placed a weight on the inner pot to keep it from rising as the mix began to set.

Similarly, Sheffield seems to have legitimate top-of-the-rotation potential and the easy confidence of someone who knows it. Dunn looks like he’s close to being major-league ready. Again, we’ll see where the eye-test and early Cactus League-dominance takes us, but there are positive signs that the likes of Robinson Cano, Edwin Diaz and James Paxton weren’t just given away this winter.

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