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Old 01-01-2008, 04:52 PM   #29 (permalink)
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Conspiracy Detected!

Nonsense news story leads to investigation! Several hard-coded references to Boston and Fenway Park found in english.xml shipped with OOTP 8! Someone is obviously a Red Sox fan, and shameless . . .
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TEXT_OBJECT id="19424" text="Boston's [%personlink] went [%batting h]-for-[%batting ab] in today's game and hit for the cycle, collecting all four types of hits and 12 RBIs. But it could not overcome the [%team#2link nickname], who won the game [%game score].(nl)(nl)"I didn't really think about it at the time, although after the double, it snuck into my mind," [%personlink l] told reporters. "The crowd certainly let me know in that last at bat, that I was going for the cycle...and I was able to make solid contact and get it. In the end the only thing that matters is that we lost," [%personname l] added."

TEXT_OBJECT id="19428" text="Today at [%ballpark] [%personlink] collected a cycle and led Boston to a [%game score] triumph over the [%team#1link nickname]. The [%team#1nickname] [%playerposition] sparked his club with [%batting h word] in [%batting ab] tries with [%batting r word] scored and [%batting rbi word]."

TEXT_OBJECT id="19429" text="Today at Fenway Park [%personlink] tore up [%team#2nickname] pitching, but the [%team#1nickname] still came up empty. [%team#2link] whipped them [%game score], despite his best efforts. The [%team#1link] [%playerposition] hit for the cycle with a [%batting h]-[%batting ab] day and collected [%batting rbi word] and scored [%batting r word] runs -- but to no avail -- his team lost the game anyway."
I have reverted to the Eugene Church version, which I see does not contain this obvious bias. (He missed two hard-coded references to the Yankees but those I find acceptable. )
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