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Foresters win third straight NBC World Series championship COURTESY OF THE SANTA BARBARA FORESTERS
Talent counts for a lot in baseball, but in 2022, the Foresters showed how much hard work counts, too. “The work ethic of this team was tremendous,” said an overjoyed Manager Bill Pintard after his team brought home the Foresters’ 10th NBC World Series championship Saturday night in Wichita, Kansas. “They were disciplined, focused, and committed. We had some bumps there, but they stuck with it, worked hard, and came through. We finished strong!”
Indeed, the Sters were 14-2 from July 13, including a six-game winning streak in the World Series tournament. Following the game, the team voted Miguel Santos as the Foresters 2022 MVP, also naming Graham Osman Pitcher of the Year and Nate Rombach Best Teammate. In the championship game (a recordtying 12th for Santa Barbara), the Foresters batters put on a historic offensive display in their 12-1 win over the Hays Larks. Santa Barbara was named the top offensive team with a gaudy .376
average in six games. The final out came on a strikeout, the seventh of the game by Sters pitching, and the dogpile ensued on the infield, with Foresters pouring out of the dugout and the bullpen. The title also gives Santa Barbara a threepeat: 2020, 2021, and 2022, something only accomplished two other times in the 88-year history of the NBC World Series. The Foresters’ 10th title also extends their all-time lead. Pintard accepted the Larry Davis trophy for his team for the tenth time, and then the 2022 Sters surrounded their
The Foresters were 14-2 from July 13, including a six-game winning streak in the World Series tournament. manager and the trophy, holding it up high in celebration. The outcome of this game was never in doubt. For the third game in a row, the Sters got the first two men on and both scored. Miguel Santos led off with a high chopping infield single, but the throw to
Display of horsemanship As Old Spanish Days come to a close, riders put on a show at Fiesta Stock Horse Show
first got away and he advanced to second. Nick McLain drove him in with a single. Gavin Kash, who would win both player of the game and tournament MVP, then thumped a deep double to left to score McLain. Please see FORESTERS on A2
Senate passes bill targeting carbon emissions, drug costs, more THE CENTER SQUARE
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A rider competes in the steer wrestling category, one of several Professional Rodeo Cowboy Association events during the 98th Annual Santa Barbara Fiesta Stock Horse Show at the Earl Warren Showgrounds on Sunday.
No Republicans voted for the bill, named the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022, in the divided 50-50 Senate, forcing Vice President Kamala Harris to break the tie.
Riders compete in saddle bronc riding at the event.
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(The Center Square) – The U.S. Senate on Sunday passed a $740 billion new taxing and spending bill that seeks to combat climate change and allow the government to control the price of prescription medications, among other things. No Republicans voted for the bill, named the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022, in the divided 5050 Senate, forcing Vice President Kamala Harris to break the tie. The measure must return to the House for a concurrence vote after senators passed several amendments Sunday. The House is expected to take the bill up again on Friday. If the House concurs, President Joe Biden has indicated he will sign it. According to the bill summary, “There are no new taxes on families making $400,000 or less and no new taxes on small businesses – we are closing tax loopholes and enforcing the tax code.” U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., a key swing vote among Democrats, spearheaded the bill, says it will pay down the national debt because of the tax increases, and lower energy and health-care costs. “Over the last year, leaders in Washington have ignored repeated warnings about the severe threat of inflation and the consequences of unprecedented domestic spending,” Sen. Manchin said last week. “Despite these concerns and my calls to give the country time to fully realize the impacts of such historic levels of spending and our inflation crisis, many Democrats have continued to push for trillions more in spending to meet a political deadline. “Contrary to foolish talk otherwise, America cannot spend its way out of debt or out of inflation.” Inflation has soared to 40-year highs, forcing Americans to pay significantly more for food, gas, clothing, cars and just about everything. Increased government spending is in part to blame for inflationary price increases. And the new 15% corporate minimum tax will be passed down to all income brackets, critics say. The Wall Street Journal editorial board argues that the Inflation Reduction Act will raise taxes on most Americans. The bill is “a tax increase on nearly every American,” they wrote. “Raise the corporate tax rate, and you’re cutting wages and salaries for workers.” Republicans on the House Ways and Means Committee argue the same. They warn it is full of “hundreds of billions of dollars in wasteful inflationary spending [and] won’t reduce the deficit.” “Rather than reduce inflation, it puts inflation on steroids,” they argue. It includes a “socialist drug price Please see SENATE on A3
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