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...doubt he's heard about it yet, the book just hit the stands. I look forward to perhaps getting a nicely wrapped dead gerbil or something like that [in the 1980s, Kingman infamously mailed a dead rat to a reporter. Past winners of this "award," besides Kingman, include Steve Balboni, Fred Lynn, Sammy Sosa, and Mark McGwire. The 2007 winner was Cincinnati Reds catcher Dave Ross, who hit 17 home runs - with a mere 39 RBIs. He hit just .203, and struck out 92 times in 311 at bats...
...Danielle (Cycle Six) were all upper-middle of the pack contestants who survived well into the season before rising to the top as their more boisterous and inconsistent competitors fell by the wayside. The same has happened in the biggest reality competition of all time: American Idol. Kelly Clarkson, winner of American Idol’s first season, and Jordin Sparks, winner of the last, both followed the narratives of non-frontrunners who broke out big near...
...doesn’t quite make for an appealing Cinderella story, nor is it ever possible to live up to great early performances; she was eventually beaten by Jordin Sparks, for whom expectations were lower. Melinda Doolittle is an awful lot like Hillary Clinton, the long-assumed eventual winner who flirts dangerously with staleness as an upstart gathers momentum...
...Ohio were equally cautiously optimistic. Ken Perdue, 53, admits that, as recently as a week ago, his confidence in Clinton was beginning to wane. "I got really worried that people would go for Obama," Perdue said. "He had won all those other states, and people like to support a winner." Hope returned over the last few days, however. Clinton seems energized and personable in her campaign appearances, Perdue said, and she has retained a narrow but stable lead in the polls. "I really think she's going to pull this one out," Perdue said...
...seen, however, just how valuable the American people believe this x-factor to be contra John McCain—a candidate with Hillary’s foreign policy credentials and without such widespread (albeit superficial and oft-overstated) “dislikeability.” Painting a Purple Heart winner as “anti-hope,” I would hazard, could present a few new challenges for the Obama spin machine...