Monthly Archives: July 2008

Amazing Trade Deadline Day as Brewers-Bashing Cubs Stand Pat

Manny Ramirez became a Dodger, Ken Griffey, Jr. became a White Sox, and the Chicago Cubs completed a four-game sweep of the Milwaukee Brewers all within a matter of a long lunch today. The sweep was the perfect punctuation to a few key acquisitions made by Jim Hendry, weeks before today’s trade deadline. Jim Edmonds [...]
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In an iReport World, Who Can We Trust?

In the mid-2008 media world, every network, blog, and news website wants to break the big impact story in times of developing news. For hours after a 5.3 magnitude earthquake centered near Chino Hills, ~30 miles from LA, rocked Southern California, all of the major networks and their websites continued carrying the news with a [...]
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Chino Hills Earthquake: My First Quake!

.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } @thevixy – first tweet on earthquake – 1142 a.m., originally uploaded by revolute. I waited 3 years to feel one and it was not an insignificant shake at 5.8 5.4 — epicenter 30 miles east of [...]
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