MLB shootaround: Wild wild-card edition

With the MLB postseason upon us after a shortened 60-game season, our writers make their predictions for this October.
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With the MLB postseason upon us after a shortened 60-game season, our writers make their predictions for this October.
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Powerhouse teams? We’ve got eight. Rivalries? Some that go back as far as the early 1900s. Upsets? We’ve already had a few of those — so buckle up.
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American League: Indians vs. Red Sox It’s been nine years since the David Ortiz-led Boston Red Sox took on the Cleveland Indians in the playoffs, and while Big Papi is still hitting dingers, a lot has changed in both dugouts. Former Boston manager Terry Francona is now riding the ship
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A brief history detailing the origins of the Big Game and how 2015 fits into the big picture.
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This view of Christians as morally superior to others is all too common. Native Americans were slaughtered and raped by generations of European settlers. Never mind that they had lived sustainably on the land for millennia; never mind that their retaliatory violence was an attempt to protect their homes; never mind that they could have contributed so much more than maize to the settlers’ lives. They believed in animalistic nature gods and, therefore, were little better than animals themselves. The Crusades were a centuries-long bloodbath borne of the belief that everyone should be Christian. Judeo-Christian values have wrought the fruitless, zero-sum blood feud between Israel and Palestine: complete unwillingness to compromise, bolstered by years of gruesome violence on both sides, backed by each group’s unyielding belief that they are the chosen people.
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