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make it your "mission" to click or call esurance today.the youngsters from mexico. >> little league world series, canada against mexico in williamsport, pennsylvania. that's in the u.s. everybody wins, will. >> if this tv gig doesn't work out for you, i think a job in the u.n. is calling you. >> that play didn't exactly work out for canada. mario cardenas hit a chopper back to the pitcher, anthony cosati throws to first but nobody is covering -- the first baseman came toward the plate and couldn't get back in time. mexico wins 2-1. >> now to the fellows who get paid, mariners and indians, dripping with drama in extras, bottom 11, tied at 3-3, luis valbuena. first career walk-off for him. it was the indians' fourth win in the last 10 games. he wasn't the only one to go deep. carlos pena went deep not once but twice. he has 34 home runs on the year. one of them happened to be of the walk-off variety. russell branyan has 30 round-trippers, chase utley for philadelphia has 26. >> not sure if it's glossy or matte but quite a photo finish at sar

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it's no "secret" that you can save hundreds with esurance.on" to click or call esurance today. >> call this the nasa special, canada against mexico in williamsport, pennsylvania -- that's in the u.s. we've got our bases covered. extra innings, bottom seven, mexico with two on, mario cardenas grounds it back to the pitcher. first baseman came in and the throw to first -- nobody was there to cover. mexico would win 2-1. take another look. ah, miscommunication, and mexico scores the winning run as they take it 2-1. >> now to the fellows who get paid -- mariners and indians, dripping with drama in extras, bottom 11, tied at 3-3, luis valbuena, goodnight, drive home safely. first career walk-off home run for the indians. it was their fourth win in the last 10 games. valbuena wasn't the only one to go deep. carlos pena has 34 home runs. he also had the walk-off hit on saturday night. russell branyan has 30 home runs in the national league. chase utley, 26 round-trippers. kung fu panda in a losing effort has 19. fourth win in the last 10 games. ♪ ♪

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it's no "secret" that you can save hundreds with esurance.e it your "mission" to click or call esurance today. >>> one of the strangest political connections of the whole summer has been the linkage between three, count them, three conservative christian republican sex scandals and a house in washington called "c" street. it's run by a secretive religious organization called "the family" and because its "c" street house has been implicated in the sex scandals of senator ensign, governor sanford and the alleged affair of former congressman chip pickering the family has been getting a lot of unwanted scrutiny this summer. now it's coming from an unlikely direction. as we reported on this show on friday, the current cover story in the christian magazine "world" is an investigation into the family and "c" street. in the past, "world" has expressed what could be described as hostility to untoward discussion of the secretive organization but now the family is on the front page and not in a good way. the article exposes the mysterious money trail an

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it's no "secret" that you can save hundreds with esurance.ke it your "mission" to click or call esurance today. >>> i love that syncopated music there. back to "hardball." time for the "sideshow." first up, pet peeves. the weird little things you don't like but nobody quite gets why you don't like them so much. here are president obama's pet peeves. he hates missing his daily workout. okay, mr. perfect. two, he doesn't like wearing baseball caps except that of the chicago white sox. okay. he doesn't like getting makeup before doing a tv show. okay. so don't get makeup. fourth, he doesn't like anything that gets in the way of being a father to his two daughters. he got ticked off when his schedule kept him from attending one of his daughter's concerts. and he doesn't like drama. wasn't it harry truman say if you don't like the heat, stay out of kitchen. one new pet peeve, he doesn't like it when aides share his list of pet peeves with reporters. >>> next, a presidential re-read. yesterday we got a look at president obama's vacation reading lis

it's no "secret" that you can save hundreds with esurance. back, time for "the politics fix" with jim vandehei and "chicago sun times" lynn sweet. i want to start with vandehei. both of you look at the polling. this is late under. i'd say take all of these numbers down about ten points. but look at the states where barack obama is enormously popular. hawaii, vermont, maryland, massachusetts, connecticut, new york, illinois. now let's take a look at the states where they don't like him at all. this doesn't surprise you either. wyoming, alaska, idaho, utah, west virginia. jim, somebody said wherever people don't live, they don't like barack obama. >> or democrats. >> sparsely populated states, they don't like him. >> right, and that's been the case for some time if you look at polling that any states tends to be rural, tends to be in the west, does not like democrats. do not like obama as much as they do republicans. there weren't many surprises on there. i was surprised at colorado's favorable ratings for obama were so low. he spent a tremendo

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