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LONG BEACH REGISTER

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LB VARSITY SPORTS
JUST A NORMAL,
EVERYDAY
LONG BEACH JOE
Tampa Bay Rays manager Maddon, who has been
known to tweet free drinks at Legends, has his team
once again in the postseason

K, so he was born in Hazelton, Pa., which is at the foot of the Poconos and about 45 minutes away from Scranton, the fictional home
office of Dunder-Mifflin. The best we can come up with is Signal
Hill and being the former home office of the C-17.
He now lives most of the year in Tampa, Fla.
Which has a bay and a beach, like Long Beach,
and while it may be 2,537 miles away by car
from Long Beach, you can essentially get
there with few stops by hopping on the I-10 and
BOB
heading east.
KEISSER
The point here is that were not proud.
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We claim Joe Maddon as our own.
And why not? We have as much in common with Los
Angeles as, say, Somalia. We are our own town, and
we set our own rules and make our own friends and
we know good people when we share a drink with
them at Legends or Tranis or McKennas or Tantalum.
Thats what Maddon, the former Angels coach
and current Tampa Bay Rays manager, does in
the offseason when he returns to his home in
Belmont Shore. Its what Maddon did a month
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Tampa Bay Rays manager Joe Maddon reads in the dugout during the American League wild-card tiebreaker
game against the Texas Rangers on Monday.
TONY GUTIERREZ, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Winless Cabrillo confident

it can turn around season
The Jaguars say the lessons learned
in five losses will serve them well in
the rest of their Moore League slate.
season.
In the ultracomBut because of
petitive,
33-team
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late-game
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ing
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time to build team
One of those three
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cohesion, thats exin particular stands
actly where Cabrilout as a team that
doesnt seem to belong in a los football team finds itgroup of winless teams half- self.
Despite the discrepancy
way through the regular

in the win-loss columns, the

0-5 Jaguars remain confident they can run the table
and get back to the postseason. With the talent on their
roster and the toughest opponent in the Moore
League in their rearview
mirror, they feel the next
five games will yield different results.
Cabrillo starts the second half of its regular-season slate when it visits Jordan (1-4) tonight at 7.
We lost all those games
close games but we
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JEFF GRITCHEN, THE REGISTER

Cabrillos Kaelon Price carries the ball against Poly in their Moore League game Sept.
27 in Long Beach. The Jags are winless, but confident theyll make the postseason.