Kansas City Royals VS Tampa Bay Rays 10:2

پنجشنبه 5 ارديبهشت 1398
11:46
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The Tampa Bay ace lasted one out into the fourth inning in his return from a broken right fourth toe as the Rays lost 10-2 to the Kansas City Royals (world series rings) on Wednesday. "It's fine," Snell said of his toe. "Happy to get back out there. It was a game where I felt just different. I felt good but it was weird. I spiked some fastballs and I never do that." The reigning AL Cy Young Award winner, who hurt the toe attempting to move a decorative display in his bathroom on April 14, allowed three runs, five hits and two walks and struck out three during a 65-pitch outing. "Probably the only good thing to come out of this game was that Blake got to 65 pitches, so he should be pretty close to full-go his next time," Rays manager Kevin Cash said. "From a health standpoint he was a 100-percent fine." The left-hander (2-2) had given up one run and nine hits over 19 innings in three starts before the injury.

Adalberto Mondesi hit a three-run homer and drove in four runs, Billy Hamilton had two hits and two RBI and Jakob Junis gave up one run and four hits in five innings for the Royals, who stopped a five-game losing streak. Junis (2-2) bruised his right hand on Yandy Diaz's drive that resulted in an inning-ending double-play in the fifth. His hand was swollen but tests showed no fracture. "Just a little nerve in there that's pinching," Junis said. Snell, signed to a $50 million, five-year contract on March 21, said Tuesday that he still had some discomfort in the toe when he walks, but not when throwing off a mound. The Rays decided that Snell was ready to return despite throwing just an 18-pitch bullpen session Saturday and eight pitches off a mound Monday. Snell was replaced by Ryan Yarbrough with a runner on third and one out in the fourth. "I knew they were a selective team but they were aggressive to start and then went back to selective," Snell said. "I threw a lot of good pitches that, they just almost looked like they knew what was coming."

Kansas City (cheap Kansas City Royals championship rings) greeted Yarbrough with consecutive bunt singles, including Cam Gallagher's that drove in a run, and Hamilton's RBI double that made it 4-1. Hamilton had a run-scoring triple and Mondesi hit his third homer, off Yarbrough, to put the Royals ahead 8-1 in the sixth. "Smallball worked good for us with guys running all over the place, plus the power," Royals manager Ned Yost said. Yarbrough, who set a team rookie record last year with 16 wins, including 14 in relief, was optioned to Triple-A Durham after allowing seven runs and eight hits over 4 1/3 innings.


On the surface, Major League Baseball's official Opening Day payroll numbers do not offer any surprises. The Boston Red Sox are paying the most in actual salaries as well as the number used in luxury-tax calculations. The Chicago Cubs and New York Yankees also have payrolls in excess of $200 million. The average salary is almost exactly flat year over year despite industry revenue gains. A deeper dive into the numbers offers a few important lessons as MLB and the MLB Players Association prepare to discuss the game's economics in early bargaining sessions expected to start soon. Here are five takeaways.

1) The best team in baseball has the lowest payroll
And it's not really close. The Tampa Bay Rays have MLB's (custom championship rings) best winning percentage with a 16-8 record. Their plus-48 run differential is tops in the big leagues, too. And they're doing it with a 40-man roster making slightly more than $50 million this season. The Rays' actual payroll number, as calculated by the league, is $62,143,354. The base salaries of their entire 40-man roster are $53,647,378 -- or $1.35 million less than the base salaries Detroit is paying Miguel Cabrera and Jordan Zimmermann this year. The chasm between the $53.6 million and $62.1 million comes from signing-bonus dollars -- including long-ago-paid bonuses for the since-traded Chris Archer and Evan Longoria -- and money kicked in to cover Edwin Encarnacion's salary. (More on that later.) MLB's calculation factors in only a prorated portion of Blake Snell's $3 million signing bonus on his new long-term deal, so the $53.6 million number isn't spot-on in terms of actual cash outlay. But it's close enough. It's nearly $19 million less than the next-lowest team, Miami, and not even a quarter of Boston's $220.6 million in base wages. On one hand, it's a testament to the Rays' ability to build an exceedingly cost-effective core through the draft, international free agency, trades and signings. It's also a reminder that however dreadful their stadium, however miserable their TV deal, however rough their economic reality, the Rays are spending far less than their competitors.

2) The teams that spend the highest proportion of their revenues will surprise you
Excuse the mixing of numbers here, but since MLB keeps individual teams' revenue numbers a tightly held secret, the closest facsimile that exists is Forbes' annual valuations. While the league says the numbers are not accurate, the estimated revenues are calculated using a consistent formula and thus provide a reasonable constant against which we can measure the percentage of money spent. The clear champion in terms of pouring money back into the major league team is the Washington Nationals. MLB calculates their payroll at $191.6 million, fifth behind the three $200 million-plus payroll behemoths and the Los Angeles Dodgers, at $195.4 million. Forbes estimates the Nationals' revenue last year, meanwhile, at $336 million, which is 12th among major league teams. Adding to the nearly $192 million payroll another $14,509,516 every team pays in benefits, the Nationals would be spending more than 60 percent of revenue on their 40-man roster. Using that payroll-plus-benefits-divided-by-revenue formula, other big spenders include Cincinnati (56 percent), Colorado (55.7 percent), Seattle (52.6 percent) and Toronto (51.4 percent). The lowest? The Yankees, whose $668 million in revenue dwarfs even a $200 million-plus payroll. Just ahead of them are Tampa Bay (33.6 percent), Pittsburgh (36.3 percent), Baltimore (37.8 percent) and Atlanta (38.2 percent).



3) Next to no money is spent going over the luxury tax
And when we say next to no money, we mean next to no money. Three teams are currently over the $206 million threshold: the Red Sox, Cubs and Yankees. Combined, they would pay $21,005,073 in penalties. That is 0.05 percent of the $4.55 billion total for all 30 teams' luxury-tax calculations. As in, 1/2,000th. It was even lower last year, when the Yankees and Dodgers were among the teams resetting their luxury-tax base rate, which increases for multiple-time offenders. That came off back-to-back years in which the tax penalties were at least marginally higher: five teams totaling $61.2 million in 2017, six teams combining for $74.1 million in 2016. That's still fractional. Minuscule. Nothing. It's still a sign that if the luxury-tax threshold doesn't serve as a stop sign on team spending, it is at very least a flashing red. Proceed with caution, it says, and teams do. It's reasonable to ask whether teams would spend any more if the luxury tax did not exist. When commissioner Rob Manfred during spring training said "I reject the notion that payroll is a good measure for how much a team is trying or how successful that team is going to be," the natural response was: Well, if that's true, then why does the luxury tax even exist? It's a question that the union is certain to ask during the upcoming negotiations.


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چهارشنبه 14 فروردين 1398
14:44
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Eric Gordon and Danuel House Jr. each scored 19 points, Kenneth Faried added 12 points and 11 rebounds, and P.J. Tucker scored 13. The Rockets have won 17 of 20.

Buddy Hield had 20 points and seven rebounds for Sacramento. The Kings (38-40) have lost four of six.

Houston led by 16 points at halftime, led 89-68 late in the third following a 4-point play by Harden, then made six consecutive 3s in the fourth to blow the game open.

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Hot-shooting Auburn upsets No. 1 North Carolina 97-80

شنبه 10 فروردين 1398
14:55
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Malik Dunbar finished with 13 points, Bryce Brown and Danjel Purifoy scored 12 apiece, and Jared Harper scored nine while dishing out 11 assists in Auburn's latest takedown of college hoops royalty.

It was Kansas last week. It was North Carolina on Friday night. It could be Kentucky next, after the Wildcats survived Houston's comeback bid for a 62-58 victory in the second semifinal.

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Leading scorer Cameron Johnson spiked a fever Thursday night, and he wound up going 4 of 11 from the floor and scoring 15 points. Top bench player Nassir Little didn't practice all week with the same symptoms, and he wound up scoring four points in just 12 minutes.

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The Tigers' momentum finally slowed when Okeke's left knee buckled on the way to the basket. The sophomore forward crumpled to the floor along the baseline, rolling around in agony and disappointment, and it eventually took two trainers to help him limp to the locker room.

Then the Tigers gave him something good to watch in the locker room.

Brown knocked down one more 3 to give the Tigers an 88-72 lead with 2:12 left, then took a steal for an emphatic breakaway dunk that the left the backboard shaking, and a single section sporting orange opposite the Auburn bench joined the celebration with a team headed back to the Elite Eight.
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Astros get look at prospects in spring finale

چهارشنبه 7 فروردين 1398
14:38
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The Astros don't think the problem is serious, but there's a chance he won't be ready for the start of the regular season Thursday. Manager AJ Hinch said Correa was "uncomfortable" after being tagged in a rundown in Friday's game.

Hinch said Correa has still been doing baseball activities despite not appearing in a game since Friday.

Correa's setback comes a season after he missed six weeks with a back injury that lingered throughout the season. He 13 homers and 49 RBI the first half of last season, but he never got over a pinched nerve in a disc in his back in the second half and batted just .180 with two home runs and 16 RBI.

The back problem left him with the lowest batting average of his four-year career (.239) and his fewest hits (96), doubles (20), homers (15) and RBI (65).

The Houston Astros championship rings for sale got a good look at two of their top pitching prospects on Tuesday in J.B. Bukauskas and Corbin Martin.

Bukauskas started for Houston and allowed three hits and two runs while striking out three in four innings to give him a 1.69 ERA this spring. Bukauskas, who was the 15th overall pick in the 2017 amateur draft, hasn't ascended past Double-A in his first two seasons in the organization.

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Martin, who was drafted in the second round in 2017 out of Texas A&M, went 7-2 with a 2.97 ERA in 21 games with 18 starts in Double-A last season. Hinch raved about the 23-year-old.

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Curry leads Warriors past Wolves 117-107, into 1st in West

چهارشنبه 29 اسفند 1397
13:50
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The Warriors had 39 assists on 44 made field goals and finished 19 for 42 from 3-point range. They've won 20 of their last 25 games away from home.

"Some possessions, it was a lot of overpassing, to be honest," Curry said, "but against teams that try to put pressure on you and take away that first option, that's the best way for us to really attack."

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Karl-Anthony Towns had 26 points and 21 rebounds, Andrew Wiggins totaled 20 points, eight rebounds and six assists and Josh Okogie had 19 points for the Timberwolves, who played again without the injured Jeff Teague, Derrick Rose, Robert Covington and Luol Deng, and lost their fourth straight game.

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The beauty of the Warriors -- or irritation, depending on the rooting interest -- is how quickly they can recover. They used a 21-3 run over the next 5:51 to take control, with their long-range shooting simply too much for this undermanned Wolves team that, even at full strength, is vulnerable defensively cheap championship rings.

Jerebko, whose playing time has dwindled since DeMarcus Cousins returned, had 14 points in the second quarter alone, including a couple of deep 3-pointers from the wing to help the Warriors cruise into halftime with a 59-47 lead.

The Wolves managed to work their way back to tie the game at 61 on Okogie's 3-pointer, but the Warriors needed only 3:18 for a 14-1 spurt that put them right back in charge. Curry had eight of those points.
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Irish defeat Georgia Tech 78-71 to break 7-game skid

چهارشنبه 22 اسفند 1397
13:15
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Notre Dame coach Mike Brey has been waiting all season for his team to figure out how to make a big plays in clutch situations.

He finally got it Tuesday -- on the biggest stage of the season.

John Mooney made a key 15-footer in the final minute as the shot clock was winding down to make it a two-possession game as Notre Dame held on to beat Georgia Tech 78-71 in the first round of the ACC championship rings to snap a seven-game losing streak.

Mooney finished with 20 points and 10 rebounds and Dane Goodwin added 15 points for the Irish, who nearly squandered a 20-point halftime lead.

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It was Mooney's 20th double-double of the season, coming days after he was named third-team All-Conference, which he called an honor.

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Michael Devoe cut the lead to five on a layup, but Juwan Durham blocked Devoe on the next possession to help seal the win.

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"They shot the daylights out of it the first half," Georgia Tech coach Josh Pastner said. "We were just on our heels, in a sense, and they were just making those 3s."

Said Brey: "We shot a crazy percentage today."
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شنبه 18 اسفند 1397
13:33
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Adam Henrique scored twice, rookie Troy Terry had a goal and two assists, and the Anaheim Ducks championship rings interrupted Carey Price's pursuit of the Canadiens' career wins record with an 8-2 victory over Montreal on Friday night.

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Shea Weber had a power-play goal and an assist for the Canadiens, who have lost five of eight. Paul Byron also scored and Price stopped 21 shots as Montreal completed a three-game California road swing with two losses while giving up a whopping 14 goals.

After getting a rare night off Thursday in San Jose, Price was in position to become the Canadiens' career victories leader after tying Jacques Plante's record with his 314th win Tuesday in Los Angeles. Instead, Price gave up eight goals in a game for the first time this season behind his befuddled defense.

At least now the 31-year-old former NHL MVP will get a chance to make Canadiens history in front of his Montreal fans on Tuesday against the Red Wings.

This blowout loss undermines the Montreal Canadiens championship rings for sale playoff push, however. Montreal and Carolina are in the two wild-card spots with 79 points apiece -- but the Hurricanes and the ninth-place Columbus Blue Jackets, who have 77 points, both have two games in hand on the Habs.

After Sprong and Henrique scored early, Shore got a power-play goal early in the second period. Weber trimmed the lead to 3-2 with the Canadiens' first power-play goal in seven games since Feb. 23, but Terry and Perry scored later in the second.

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Cam Fowler became the Ducks' career scoring leader among defensemen in the second period, getting his 265th career point when Terry redirected his shot for a goal. Fowler has spent his entire nine-season NHL career in Anaheim, cracking the roster as an 18-year-old in 2010 and immediately becoming a dependable part of the Ducks' core.

In his 17th NHL game, Jones got his first goal in the waning seconds.

Ducks C Ryan Kesler was a late scratch with a hip injury. He missed much of last season while recovering from hip surgery, and has scored just eight points while playing in 60 games this season, including the 1,000th of his NHL career Tuesday at Arizona. The 34-year-old Selke Trophy winner has three seasons and $20.625 million left on his contract. ... custom Montreal Canadiens championship rings forward Tomas Tatar sat out with the flu, and D Brett Kulak was scratched for the first time in 33 games since Dec. 20. Jesperi Kotkaniemi was back in the lineup, and D Mike Reilly returned from a five-game absence. ... Sprong was born in the Netherlands, but his family moved to the Montreal area when he was 7 years old to further his hockey development.
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سه شنبه 14 اسفند 1397
14:12
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The Phoenix Suns have had a dreadful season, one of growing pains, long losing streaks and blowout losses. However, on Monday night they put together a performance that was far from that of the team that came in with the NBA's worst record.

Kelly Oubre Jr. had 27 points and 13 rebounds, and the Suns rallied from a 10-point fourth quarter deficit to beat the NBA-best Milwaukee Bucks championship rings 114-105 on Monday night.

Devin Booker added 22 points and Deandre Ayton had 19 points and 12 rebounds, including a key layup with 35.8 seconds to play that gave the Suns a four-point lead.

Booker and Ayton teamed up on the play when Ayton rolled to the basket.

The Suns outscored the Bucks 38-23 in the final quarter and swept the two-game season series with Milwaukee.

All-Star Giannis Antetokounmpo had 21 points and 13 rebounds, and Malcolm Brogdon scored 19 points for the Bucks, who have lost two straight games for the first time this season. Milwaukee Bucks championship rings for sale shot 36.8 percent as a team.

"It's kind of hard to think we lost to Phoenix twice," Antetokounmpo said. "But they played better than us. They came out there and set the tone."

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Booker swished a 3-pointer with 2:37 to go for a 100-98 Suns lead, and Oubre's corner 3 made it 103-100. Brogdon got a favorable high bounce on a 3 to tie it, but Tyler Johnson and Ayton scored the next two baskets unanswered for the Suns.

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The Suns cut the lead to 54-52 at halftime. Johnson and Josh Jackson knocked down back-to-back 3s to cap off a 10-0 run over the last 90 seconds of the first half.

Booker's 3 with 10:02 left in the third tied the score at 55, and the Suns took their first lead of the game, 64-63, on Ayton's 12-footer with 5:35 to go in the quarter. Then Johnson's steal and layup had the Suns up 70-67.

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"It's kind of hard to think we lost to Phoenix twice,'' Antetokounmpo said. "But they played better than us. They came out there and set the tone."

"I don't think we take them as seriously as we should," Brogdon said. "It's just a lack of focus."

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Phillies land Harper for 13 years, $330M

جمعه 10 اسفند 1397
13:30
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Manager Gabe Kapler heard the big news from fans in the stands during the Philadelphia Phillies championship rings spring training game. His team won the Bryce Harper sweepstakes, agreeing to a 13-year, $330 million deal with the free-agent outfielder, league sources told ESPN's Jeff Passan on Thursday.

Harper, the 2015 National League MVP and still only 26 years old, was one of the top prizes in this year's crop of free agents. Infielder Manny Machado agreed to a 10-year, $300 million deal with the San Diego Padres championship rings, and it was assumed Harper's total would exceed that contract. Not only did he do that, his total beats Giancarlo Stanton's 13-year, $325 million extension signed with the Miami Marlins championship rings.

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Kapler, who said that Harper would likely hit third or fourth in the lineup, met with Harper during the offseason courtship.

Following news of Harper's decision, his odds to win the 2019 NL MVP award moved from 6-1 to 5-1 at the Westgate Las Vegas SuperBook.

Harper isn't the only upgrade to the roster for the Philadelphia Phillies championship rings for sale, who were 80-82 to finish third in the NL East last season. They traded for catcher J.T. Realmuto and infielder Jean Segura and signed outfielder Andrew McCutchen and reliever David Robertson.

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Harper hit .249 with 34 home runs and 100 RBIs for Washington last season. He struggled for much of the first half but won the Home Run Derby during All-Star festivities at Nationals Park and hit .300 with 11 home runs, 46 RBIs and 46 runs scored in 223 at-bats after the break. He led the NL custom championship rings in walks with 130 and ranked fifth in on-base percentage (.393).

He is going to a ballpark that fits him well. Harper has 14 career home runs at Citizens Bank Park, the most round-trippers at any road ballpark in his career. His .564 career slugging percentage at the park ranks first among 71 players with at least 200 plate appearances there. Rhys Hoskins, who will likely hit directly behind Harper in the batting order, ranks second on that list (.562).

One of the main topics of discussion for the Nationals -- and all of Major League Baseball mlb world series championship rings -- going into the offseason was whether the team would be able to sign Harper to a long-term deal. According to reports, he turned down a 10-year, $300 million offer from the Nats.

He went into free agency after turning down the Nationals' qualifying offer for $17.9 million. Because the Nationals are over the luxury tax, they would get a supplementary pick after the fourth round in compensation for Harper.

Harper led the major leagues in 2015 with 42 homers and hit .330 with 99 RBIs. He slumped to a .243 average with 24 homers and 86 RBIs in 2016 then rebounded to hit .319 with 29 homers and 87 RBIs in just 111 games in 2017.
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Bastian and Gabriel score, last-place Devils sweep Canadiens

سه شنبه 7 اسفند 1397
13:22
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If the Montreal Canadiens championship rings don't make the postseason, they can blame the lowly New Jersey Devils.

Three games. Three losses. And only one point for a team fighting for its playoff life.

Monday night's 2-1 defeat might have been one of the low points all season for Montreal. With the Canadiens needing a win to improve their hold on the top wild-card spot in the Eastern Conference, last-place New Jersey beat them with a lineup that included seven players who spent the majority of the season with the custom New Jersey Devils championship rings top minor league affiliate.

"We just didn't start on time," Montreal coach Claude Julien said. "We didn't play well enough to win a hockey game. This time of year you have to play 60 minutes and we didn't do that."

The Devils did.

Nathan Bastian scored his first NHL stanley cup rings goal and Kurtis Gabriel got his second. Recently acquired defenseman Connor Carrick set up both goals and Cory Schneider made 34 saves to cap the Devils' best season series against Montreal since going 3-1-0 in 2011-12.

The Canadiens still hold a one-point lead over Carolina and Pittsburgh for the first wild card in the East, but the Hurricanes and Penguins now each have a game in hand.

"Every single game from here on out will be absolutely huge," Montreal center Max Domi said. "We've got to find ways to win as many games as possible. We're going to try and win every game, obviously. We're going to leave it all out there."

Paul Byron scored a short-handed goal for Montreal, and Carey Price made 20 saves.

Trailing 2-0 and with the cheap New Jersey Devils championship rings on a power play, the Canadiens got back into the game on a great individual effort by Byron, who recently returned to the lineup after missing six games with an arm injury.

Byron picked up a loose puck near his own blue line, outskated defenseman Damon Severson into the Devils zone and beat Schneider with a shot to the top corner at 6:30 of the third period.

Montreal Canadiens championship rings for sale threatened in the final 13 minutes but Schneider made excellent saves on Domi and Brendan Gallagher on a power play in the last 10 minutes. Schneider's best save might have been a stop on a short-handed breakaway by Artturi Lehkonen in the first period.

Bastian, recalled from the minors Sunday, tipped Carrick's shot under Price's pads at 12:35 of the first period. He made his NHL debut on Jan. 19 and this was his second game.

Gabriel, who scored his first NHL goal against Ottawa last week, got his second by tipping a shot from the point by Carrick at 3:06 of the second period and putting in the rebound championship sports rings.

"That's the kind of goal you feel good getting to the net and rewarded for your hard work on it," Gabriel said. "That's why you saw the exuberance and celebration. The first one I didn't see go in. To be able to contribute and get a game-winning goal in a big game against that team, it's great."

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