Still, after whupping the White Sox 10-4 on Thursday night, Yankees outfielder Cody Bellinger asserted that there's no shame in padding the record against low-quality competition, which is objectively true.
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Jackson Roberts,
MSNBC Newsweek,
29 Aug. 2025
Bob Hawkey, a Grant Thornton consultant, said the city has to work on convincing voters that the potential 1% tax hike won’t be about padding the budget, but about ensuring long-term financial stability.
Its beauty lies in low-slung pastel buildings, pine forests edging the city, and ferries slicing through the Baltic toward fortress islands like Suomenlinna—while locals linger in cafés over cardamom buns or get cozy in harborside saunas.
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Lewis Nunn,
Forbes.com,
3 Sep. 2025
Forty-one years later, the teams met again in the Classic, with FAMU edging Howard 17-13.
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