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Fractional Baseball
12:11 - 16:00
News anchors explain the game of baseball...but in fractions.

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like to go to the ball game
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and so when the second baseman open his glove and found a live squirrel in the webbing
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well you can imagine why the game is being protested Peter
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thank you rob for another inside peek at the world of professional curling
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rob it has been a busy day in the World of Sports it certainly has Peter you can say that again
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Rob it has been a busy day in the World of Sports as you know Peter a new form of baseball has captured the imagination of a whole generation of Americans
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it's
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called fractional baseball it's slightly different from ordinary baseball Peter
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I know that Rob instead of getting one run or point for going around the four bases in fractional baseball you get 1/4 of a run for every base you reach
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if you reach first base you get 1/4 or 1/4 of a run if you reach second you get to Fourth
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Third Base gives you three fourths of a run
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and four bases gives you four force or one whole run
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the big game has just concluded in the midwest at the long
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so let's join our correspondent
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are you there Paula
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thanks robbing Peter Paul I here at the Long John America's only dirt-covered Stadium where we have seen a terrific game of fanatical fractional baseball
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the mess and the Cubs are battling it out as we near the pain instruction today we've seen the kind of game these teams are famous for
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here's how the scoring went
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it began as a classic pitcher's duel between D'Artagnan of the Mets
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and Rathbone of the Cubs
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then Jake Watson rip this single in the bottom of the fifth giving the Cubs of 1/4 run lead
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but on the next pitch Watson was picked off trying to steal second making the score 0 to 0 again
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Jake Jackson scored in the sixth with this single putting the Cubs back on the scoreboard followed by a screaming double by Jake Moffat making the score
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one in 1420
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the Miss picture appeared Preposterous as the Cubs pitching her Plex the next eight but poppers
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but with two outs in the top of the ninth the Mets Jake mr. Smith drilled the first pitch out of the park with a home run
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to pull the mats with in 1/4 run
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Jake Worcester then hit this single for a 1/4 run followed by this controversial
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out of sight triple
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making the score that's 2 and 3/4 Cubs one and one fourth
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in the bottom of the ninth two Cubs threatened to come back when Jake look out hit this
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for a 2/4 1/2 of a run
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but the Mets held on
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the final score bets 2 and 3/4 Cubs 1 and 3/4
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word is that they are still looking for that
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that ball
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will have coverage of tomorrow's big doubleheader between these two fine clubs but for now this is Paula sending it back to you guys robbing Peter
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and reminding you that I still haven't received my expense check for
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one thank you Paula
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and now here are some more scores
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and that big Eastern game back he's between Virginia and William and Mary with half a minute to go in the fourth quarter the score is
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Virginia 21
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William 14 and Mary 700
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at put the girls on top there twenty eight to 14
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here are some partial scores
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for
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7:23
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and 9
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in a big ups at Michigan State previously won in six feet Indiana previously six in 1726
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and of Good Sports exclusive
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some pregame scores
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nothing to nothing
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nothing to nothing
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nothing to nothing
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and in a real shocker 14 to nothing whoa this isn't from the tennis run
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a final 616
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love five seven and seven six in the tiebreaker
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hee
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hee
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or if you've ever had your time broken you know what a painful experience that candy I do indeed from all of us at Good Sports here's hoping you'll be
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a good sport
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you've already seen this much of
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