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          Second-Place Showdown
          In honor of the 43rd President of the United States (heh, heh, heh), 
          The Al Gore Cup is a forum for teams that finished second and most 
          likely feel that they're more deserving than all of the other 
          first-place teams to be in the championship bracket. 
            
          Teams are seeded 1-4 based on regular season records and play a 
          best-of-seven semifinal round followed by another seven game series to 
          crown the winner. 
            
          The winner receives a bonus of 1 million Benchwarmer Bucks.  
          The runner-up gets 500,000. 
            
          The 2012 Entrants (in order of seeding): 
          
            - Timbucktoo (84-66)
 
            - Beer Thirty (80-70)
 
            - Bloom County (79-71)
 
            - Omaha (71-79)
 
           
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           Semifinals - Omaha vs Timbucktoo; Bloom County vs Beer Thirty 
            
          Finals - Bloom County vs Timbucktoo - Timbucktoo won the season 
		  series 7-5 
          2012 Gore Cup Winner - Timbucktoo in 5 Games 
            
          Playoffs main page 
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                    Finals
                    
                      
      
        
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          |   | R | H | E |   |  | Bloom County | 2 | 9 | 0 | Box  |  | Timbucktoo | 7 | 8 | 1 |  WP - R.Detwiler (1-0)  LP - G.Gonzalez (0-1) HR: BC: I.Davis (1), C.Carter (1); Tim: B.Butler (1) Timbucktoo leads 1-0 |   
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          |   | R | H | E |   |  | Bloom County | 3 | 11 | 0 | Box  |  | Timbucktoo | 7 | 8 | 0 |  WP - A.Wainwright (1-0)  LP - S.Diamond (0-1) HR: Tim: I.Desmond (1), C.Headley (1) Timbucktoo leads 2-0 |   
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          |   | R | H | E |   |  | Timbucktoo | 6 | 12 | 0 | Box  |  | Bloom County | 2 | 6 | 2 |  WP - A.Burnett (1-0)  LP - R.Dempster (0-1) HR: Tim: M.Holliday (1), T.Snider (1); BC: C.Carter (2) Timbucktoo leads 3-0 |   
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          |   | R | H | E |   |  | Timbucktoo | 4 | 6 | 2 | Box  |  | Bloom County | 6 | 9 | 2 |  WP - J.Westbrook (1-0)  LP - J.Peavy (0-1) HR: Tim: B.Butler (2), C.Jones 2 (2); BC: I.Davis (2), P.Alvarez (1) Timbucktoo leads 3-1 |   
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          |   | R | H | E |   |  | Timbucktoo | 6 | 11 | 0 | Box  |  | Bloom County | 2 | 7 | 0 |  WP - W.Chen (1-0)  LP - J.Samardzija (0-1) HR: Tim: M.Holliday (2), C.Headley (2); BC: I.Davis (3), C.Carter (3), J.Saltalamacchia (1) Timbucktoo wins series 4-1 |   
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          Semifinal One | 
          Semifinal Two | 
         
        
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          |   | R | H | E |   |  | Omaha | 7 | 10 | 3 | Box  |  | Timbucktoo | 4 | 11 | 0 |  WP - M.Cain (1-0)  LP - R.Detwiler (0-1) HR: Oma: A.Gordon (1), A.Jones (1); Tim: J.Hamilton (1) Omaha leads 1-0 |      | 
          
          |   | R | H | E |   |  | Bloom County | 6 | 12 | 0 | Box  |  | Beer Thirty | 0 | 10 | 2 |  WP - G.Gonzalez (1-0)  LP - G.Floyd (0-1) HR: BC: P.Alvarez (1), J.Saltalamacchia (1) Bloom County leads 1-0 |      | 
         
        
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          |   | R | H | E |   |  | Omaha | 3 | 8 | 0 | Box  |  | Timbucktoo | 4 | 8 | 0 |  WP - A.Wainwright (1-0)  LP - J.Vargas (0-1) HR: Oma: G.Stanton (1), C.Lee (1) Series tied 1-1 |      | 
          
          |   | R | H | E |   |  | Bloom County | 6 | 15 | 0 | Box  |  | Beer Thirty | 5 | 10 | 2 |  WP - BC BP (1-0)  LP - Beer BP (0-1) HR: BC: A.Pagan (1), P.Alvarez 2 (3); Beer: I.Kinsler (1) Bloom County leads 2-0 |      | 
         
        
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          |   | R | H | E |   |  | Timbucktoo | 2 | 5 | 0 | Box  |  | Omaha | 1 | 10 | 0 |  WP - A.Burnett (1-0)  LP - B.Arroyo (0-1) HR: none Timbucktoo leads 2-1 |      | 
          
          |   | R | H | E |   |  | Beer Thirty | 5 | 9 | 0 | Box  |  | Bloom County | 4 | 9 | 0 |  WP - A.Sanchez (1-0)  LP - R.Dempster (0-1) HR: BC: I.Davis (1), P.Alvarez (4) Bloom County leads 2-1 |      | 
         
        
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          |   | R | H | E |   |  | Timbucktoo | 2 | 9 | 1 | Box  |  | Omaha | 10 | 9 | 0 |  WP - E.Jackson (1-0)  LP - J.Peavy (0-1) HR: Tim: M.Holliday (1), C.Headley (1); Oma: D.Jeter (1), A.Jones (2), G.Stanton (2) Series tied 2-2 |      | 
          
          |   | R | H | E |   |  | Beer Thirty | 7 | 6 | 0 | Box  |  | Bloom County | 9 | 8 | 3 |  WP - BC BP (2-0)  LP - M.Harrison (0-1) HR: BC: I.Davis 2 (3), J.Bruce (1), C.Carter (1) Bloom County leads 3-1 |      | 
         
        
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          |   | R | H | E |   |  | Timbucktoo | 3 | 10 | 1 | Box  |  | Omaha | 2 | 5 | 0 |  WP - W.Chen (1-0)  LP - Oma BP (0-1) HR: Tim: B.Butler (1) Timbucktoo leads 3-2 |      | 
          
          | Extra Innings | R | H | E |   |  | Beer Thirty | 2 | 9 | 1 | Box  |  | Bloom County | 3 | 9 | 0 |  WP - J.Samardzija (1-0)  LP - Beer BP (0-2) HR: Beer: E.Encarnacion (1); BC: P.Alvarez (5) Bloom County wins series 4-1 |      | 
         
        
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          |   | R | H | E |   |  | Omaha | 3 | 12 | 0 | Box  |  | Timbucktoo | 12 | 14 | 1 |  WP - R.Detwiler (1-1)  LP - M.Cain (1-1) HR: Oma: A.Gordon (2); Tim: I.Desmond (1), C.Headley (2) Timbucktoo wins series 4-2 |      | 
          
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