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NL MVP Ryan Braun calls Justin Verlander 'most dominant' in baseball

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"I think he was the single most dominant player in baseball this year," Milwaukee outfielder Ryan Braun said Tuesday of Tigers pitcher Justin Verlander. 
"As a position player, I'm biased that I think position players should be at the forefront of that award (the MVP). But if you honestly look at what he accomplished and how much he meant to that team and how dominant he truly was, you cannot make any argument against him winning that award." 
Verlander on Monday became the first starting pitcher in a quarter-century to be named MVP. Braun, the Brewers' slugging leftfielder, was announced as the NL MVP on Tuesday. Like Verlander, he received far more first-place votes than anyone else. 
In a conference call with reporters, Braun wasn't asked directly if he thought Verlander deserved the MVP. He was simply asked for his analysis and view of the season that Verlander had. 
In answering, Braun immediately and emphatically stated that, yes, Verlander was worthy of the MVP. 
"Without a doubt, (he was) the best pitcher in baseball this year and, in my opinion, the most dominant individual player in the game this year," Braun said. 
 
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NL MVP Ryan Braun calls Justin Verlander 'most dominant' in baseball

The National League MVP raves about the American League MVP. "I think he was the single most dominant player in baseball this year,...

Turkey Talk: Kids share Thanksgiving turkey recipes

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There’s nothing quite like the vivid imagination of a child. 
 In honor of Thanksgiving The News Courier thought it would be 
interesting to share area students perspectives on the art of preparing 
the main dish — turkey.

Students in Quita Burk’s pre-kindergarten class at Little Blessings Child Development Center shared the following recipes:

Layla Pride 
 Ingredients 
 Rocks, salad, chicken, snow, salt, grapes, popcorn and chips. 
 Directions 
 Put it in the oven for three minutes at 530 degrees. Cook it and eat it.

Kaylen Hicks 
 Ingredients 
 Ketchup, hot sauce, beef stew, chicken, corn bread, biscuits, juice, oranges. 
 Directions 
 Put turkey in it, put fries in it and put it in a pan. Put it in the 
oven for two, three or four days at 2,345 degrees. Cook it and eat it.

Chloe Malone 
 Ingredients 
 Beans, salt, pepper, milk, butter, oil, hot sauce and chicken. 
 Directions 
 Put in the oven for eight hours at 48 degrees. Grill and eat it.

JoeQuez Keith 
 Ingredients 
 Pepper, salt, macaroni and cheese, chicken, hot chicken, hamburger, chicken nuggets and biscuits. 
 Directions 
 Put it in the pot. Put it in the stove for about seven years at 100 degrees. Eat it.

Elyjah Jones 
 Ingredients 
 Great Northern beans, mayonnaise, bananas, hot sauce, oranges, chicken, water, milk. 
 Directions 
 Put it in the stove. Put milk inside of it and add chicken. Cook it for too long at 489 degrees. When its done cooking, eat it.

Olivia Osborne 
 Ingredients 
 Water, watermelon, corn, milk, green beans, ramen noodles, gummy bears, colors. 
 Directions 
 Put gummy bears and strawberry shortcake on it. Put it in the oven for eight minutes at 8 degrees. Cook it and eat it.

Caylee Howell 
 Ingredients 
 Milk, sugar, hot sauce, bananas, pepper, salt, mayonnaise and ketchup. 
 Directions 
 Put greens in it. Pour the milk on it and put syrup on it. Put it in the oven for seven minutes at 120 degrees. Eat it.

Students in Courtney Keeton’s kindergarten class at Piney Chapel Elementary School shared the following recipes:

Brayden Maldonado: My momma washes it first. Then, she
 takes it out of the pack. Put it on a pan and put it in the oven at 4 
degrees with one potato.

Emma Pratt: Wash it first. Cook it. My mom and dad put it in the oven for seven hours. Eat it.

Haley Nash: Stuff it with cheese. Put it in oven for seven minutes. Serve it with popcorn.

Eric Landin: Bake it at 70 degrees for five hours. Then, stuff it with macaroni and cheese.

Joseph Davis: Take the feathers off. Wash it. Put it 
in a pan. Stuff with cheese, candy and popcorn. Cook for 10 hours in a 
red hot oven. Serve the turkey with pizza. Sometimes you can grill it on
 a stove.

Addie Wallace: You shoot the turkey and take off the feathers. Then, you put the stuffing in it. Last, you cook it in the oven.

Eric McGovern: First you shoot the turkey and then you wash it off. Then you put it in the oven. You take it out and you eat it.

Alyiesiea Vega: You have to wash the turkey off first.
 You bake it outside. Then, you can put some salad around it. Then, take
 it home and eat it.

Yazmin Cunca: Wash it and make it. Turkey and potatoes are my Thanksgiving meal.

Corey Stanley: First, you shoot the turkey. Then, you clean it. You bake it in the oven. Last, you eat it for Thanksgiving dinner.

Jayden Russell: I would cook a turkey by putting 
pumpkins and gummies around my turkey. Then, I would put some ranch 
dressing on the turkey. Then, I would put it in the oven and cook it for
 15 hours. That’s it.

Tyler Duck: First, I would shoot it. Then, wash it and cook it for 15 minutes. Then, you get to eat it.

Hanna Heard: First you shoot it. Then, you put some 
stuff like cheese and ranch in it. You put it in the oven for 30 
minutes. Then, you eat it.

Maritza Olxao: First you cook it and then you eat it.

Amelia Hernandez: First you cook it and then eat.

Yahashi Vicente: Cook it first. Then eat!

Garrett Hopkins: First you shoot it. Then, you put it in the oven. Then, you wash it. Then, you have to put it on the stove. Then, you eat it.

Students in Katie Clark’s kindergarten class at Piney Chapel Elementary School shared the following recipes:

Maritza Armenta: Stuff it with chicken. Put it in the oven for 10 seconds.

Makayla Trosusdale: Put salt and sugar on it. Put it in the oven for one minute. Cook at 5 degrees.

Noah Ghadimy: Put sugar in the turkey. Fry the turkey at 5 degrees for six minutes. Put mustard on it.

Hayden Hargrove: Wash it and put it in the microwave for five minutes. Add pepper. 
 Sayra Sanchez: Stuff it with bread. Put it in a hot oven for two minutes.

Anonymous: Cook it six minutes. Stuff it with bread and salt and sugar.

Luke Pinkey: Put it on the grill for one hour. Stuff with pepper and cheese. Eat with ketchup.

Brooklyn Dillworth: Stuff it with chicken nuggets. Make it on the stove. Then, it hops out of the stove.

Adan Diaz: Stuff turkey with cheese. Cook on stove for five hours at 10 degrees.

Landon Fisher: I would put salt and butter inside. I 
would put it in a pan and cook for two hours at 500 degrees. I would cut
 it up. Put it on my plate and eat it.

Dominic Bartlow: I would stuff it with chicken and cook for five hours. Put it on a plate and let it cool off.

Omaren Hernandez: I would put salt inside and cook for three hours.

Amy Vega: My momma doesn’t cook turkey, but I would cook it for like three hours.

Brandon Farris: Put it in the stove and cook it for six hours. 
 Lexi Strong: I would put salt and butter inside. I would put it in the oven and cook for seven hours.

Mason Taylor: I would put cheese and chicken nuggets inside. I would cook it for seven days. 
 
 
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Turkey Talk: Kids share Thanksgiving turkey recipes

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Jay Cutler to have thumb surgery

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<a href="http://espn.go.com/nfl/team/_/name/chi/chicago-bears">Chicago Bears</a> quarterback <a href="http://espn.go.com/nfl/player/_/id/9597/jay-cutler">Jay Cutler</a> will undergo surgery on the thumb on his throwing hand after breaking it during Sunday's 31-20 victory over the <a href="http://espn.go.com/nfl/team/_/name/sd/san-diego-chargers">San Diego Chargers</a>. 
The team initially said the surgery would take place Tuesday but 
quickly changed that statement to say a date hasn't been set. Head coach
 Lovie Smith insisted Monday that the plan is for Cutler return before 
the playoffs. 
"He'll be out an extended period of time," Smith 
said. "The plan now is for him to have surgery on the thumb soon, and I 
can't tell you exactly how quick, but as soon as possible. Not today, 
but hopefully fairly quickly we can have surgery on the thumb. 
"And
 I also said, the plan is to get him back at the latter part of the 
regular season. This is what I wanted to know, 'Was it a season-ending 
injury?' No. From what I've been told right now, we can expect him back 
at the end of the regular season. For me, that's enough to go on." 
Cutler injured the right thumb while trying to make a tackle on <a href="http://espn.go.com/nfl/player/_/id/11261/antoine-cason">Antoine Cason</a>,
 who intercepted a pass with just less than 10 minutes remaining in the 
fourth quarter. Cutler continued to play after the injury, completing 
his final two passes for 24 yards in the team's final drive. 
"It's devastating," linebacker <a href="http://espn.go.com/nfl/player/_/id/2140/brian-urlacher">Brian Urlacher</a>
 said. "It's horrible, and I felt worse for him than I did for us. It 
stinks for us because he's having such a great year. He's our leader. 
He's the guy we turn to for pretty much everything." 
The Bears also announced that long snapper <a href="http://espn.go.com/nfl/player/_/id/1577/patrick-mannelly">Patrick Mannelly</a> ruptured the anterior cruciate ligament in his knee and is out for the year. 
While
 Smith believes Cutler could return before the postseason, sources said 
Cutler will likely miss the final six regular-season games. 
"I'm 
not going to play doctor right now," Smith said on WBBM radio in Chicago
 when asked how long Cutler will be sidelined. "We're going through the 
process." 
With Cutler out, the attention turns to backup <a href="http://espn.go.com/nfl/player/_/id/11540/caleb-hanie">Caleb Hanie</a>,
 who will take over as the starter. A four-year veteran, Hanie played in
 two games in 2010, completing 8 of 14 passes for 66 yards and an 
interception. 
Hanie also filled in for Cutler in the NFC title 
game, and hit 13-of-20 for 153 yards a touchdown and two interceptions 
in a loss to the <a href="http://espn.go.com/nfl/team/_/name/gb/green-bay-packers">Green Bay Packers</a>. 
"Caleb
 has been around here a long time, and our football team feels 
comfortable with him leading us," Smith said. "Don't feel sorry for us, 
or anything like that. We have a lot of things in place. We're losing 
and we're going to miss a great player for a period of time, but 
offensively we're going to rely on our running a game a little bit more.
 We have a great defense and special teams." 
Rookie <a href="http://espn.go.com/nfl/player/_/id/14120/nathan-enderle">Nathan Enderle</a> is the Bears' only other healthy quarterback, so Smith said the plan is to sign another veteran quarterback. 
"The plan is for that. With Jay being out for awhile, we need another quarterback on our roster," Smith said. "The plan is to look for a veteran, preferably, to come in and help us." 
It's expected the Bears would consider quarterbacks with experience playing in the system of offensive coordinator Mike Martz. 
One who will not be in the running is <a href="http://espn.go.com/nfl/player/_/id/1682/kurt-warner">Kurt Warner</a>. The former Rams and Cardinals QB tweeted that he was "bummed" for Cutler,
 but added, "Been there 2 many times & he was playing great fball! 
Yes, I know & luv offense but NO I am NOT unretiring!" 
Another name that comes up in any discussion of need at quarterback is familiar to Bears fans -- <a href="http://espn.go.com/nfl/player/_/id/112/brett-favre">Brett Favre</a>. There is no indication that the Bears are interested, but Cutler and Favre share the same agent, Bus Cook. 
Former Jaguars quarterback <a href="http://espn.go.com/nfl/player/_/id/3636/david-garrard">David Garrard</a> -- with no experience in Martz's system -- also seemed like a logical option, but he's just starting rehabilitation from back surgery and won't be able to undergo any contact for at least three weeks, according to a source. 
Urlacher said the team "can live with" Hanie and even Enderle. 
"With
 the way we play defense and special teams and the way we run the 
football, we can win with those guys at quarterback," he said. "We're 
not happy about what happened, but we're not going to panic,
 as players. I don't know what the organization is doing, but our 
coaches won't panic. We'll settle down, get Caleb in there, get his reps
 and all that good stuff, but we're not panicking right now." 
The Bears opened a roster spot for a veteran QB, releasing defensive end <a href="http://espn.go.com/nfl/player/_/id/14320/mario-addison">Mario Addison</a> on Monday. 
The Bears have won five games in a row to improve to 7-3. It's possible Cutler could rejoin the team in time for the playoffs. 
Smith said the Bears' strategy won't change. 
"Running
 game, play from our quarterback position, outstanding defensive play, 
special teams," he said. "We've been in this situation before. So again,
 it's unfortunate, we don't know exactly how long Jay will be out, but while he's out the ship will keep moving." 
 
 
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Jay Cutler to have thumb surgery

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Justin Verlander become American League MVP

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Detroit Tigers right-hander, who last week won the Cy Young Award, becomes
the first pitcher since 1992 to win both awards in the same season.</h2>
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NEW YORK — Justin Verlander of the Detroit Tigers became the first starting
pitcher in a quarter of a century to be selected most valuable player, adding
to the Cy Young Award he won last week.

Verlander was selected American League MVP on Monday, receiving 13 of 28
first-place votes and 280 points in voting announced by the Baseball Writers'
Assn. of America.

"Obviously, pitchers are not just written off all of a sudden because
they're pitchers," Verlander said.

Boston Red Sox center fielder Jacoby Ellsbury was second with four
first-place votes and 242 points, followed by Toronto Blue Jays right fielder Jose
Bautista with five first-place votes and 231 points, New York Yankees center
fielder Curtis Granderson with 215 and Detroit first baseman Miguel Cabrera
with 193.

"Not even in my wildest dreams had I thought of this," Verlander
said. "I want to say this is a dream come true. I can't say that because
my dream had already come true … to win a Cy Young. And the next dream is to
win a World Series. This wasn't even on my radar until the talk started. And
then all of a sudden it was a this-could-actually-happen type of thing."

Verlander won the AL's pitching triple crown with a 24-5 record, 2.40
earned-run average and 250 strikeouts, the most wins in the major leagues since
Bob Welch had a 27-6 record in 1990 with the Oakland Athletics. Verlander
pitched his second career no-hitter at Toronto on May 7.

Last week, he was a unanimous Cy Young Award winner. On Monday, he became
the first pitcher to be selected MVP since Oakland's Dennis Eckersley in 1992
and the first starting pitcher since Boston's Roger Clemens in 1986.

"I think that a starting pitcher has to do something special to be as
valuable or more so than a position player," Verlander said.
"Obviously, having the chance to play in 160-some games in the case of
Miguel, they can obviously have a huge impact every day. That's why, I've
talked about on my day, on a pitcher's day, the impact we have is tremendous on
that game. So you have to have a great impact almost every time out to
supersede [position players] and it happens on rare occasions, and I guess this
year was one of those years."

The 2006 AL rookie of the year, Verlander joined Don Newcombe of the
Brooklyn Dodgers as the only players to win all three major awards in their
careers.

"I think this set a precedent," Verlander said. "I'm happy
that the voters acknowledged that, that we do have a major impact in this game
and we can be extremely valuable to our team and its success."

Verlander appeared on only 27 ballots and was omitted by Jim Ingraham of the
Herald-News in northeastern Ohio, who voted Bautista first. Sheldon Ocker of
the Akron Beacon Journal voted Verlander eighth.

Ingraham doesn't think pitchers should be eligible for MVP.

"I'd wrestled with this for a long time. If I was ever going to vote
for pitcher for MVP, it would be him this year," Ingraham said. "He
hasn't appeared in 79% of their games; any starting pitcher really doesn't
appear in 79% of his team's games in a year.

"Would you vote for an NFL quarterback for MVP if he only appeared in
three of his team's 16 games, which would be 21%? So that's part of it. Another
part of it is I think they're apples and oranges. The guys that are in there
every day, there's a grind to a season that a starting pitcher doesn't, I don't
think, experience the way the everyday position players do playing 150, 160
games."

Other pitchers to win MVP and the Cy Young in the same year were Newcombe
(1956), Sandy Koufax of the Dodgers (1963), <a href="http://www.latimes.com/topic/sports/bob-gibson-PESPT002560.topic" id="PESPT002560" title="Bob Gibson">Bob Gibson</a> of the St. Louis Cardinals and
Denny McLain of Detroit (1968), Vida Blue of Oakland (1971), <a href="http://www.latimes.com/topic/sports/rollie-fingers-PESPT002252.topic" id="PESPT002252" title="Rollie Fingers">Rollie Fingers</a> of Milwaukee (1981)
and Willie Hernandez of Detroit (1984).

Since <a href="http://www.latimes.com/topic/sports/mickey-cochrane-PESPT001356.topic" id="PESPT001356" title="Mickey Cochrane">Mickey Cochrane</a> (1934), <a href="http://www.latimes.com/topic/sports/hank-greenberg-PESPT002777.topic" id="PESPT002777" title="Hank Greenberg">Hank Greenberg</a> (1935, 1940) and
Charley Gehringer (1937), all Tigers selected MVP have been pitchers, with
Verlander joining Hal Newhouser (1944 and 1945), McLain and Hernandez.

Although Verlander earned a $500,000 bonus for winning the Cy Young Award,
he didn't have an MVP bonus provision. Tampa Bay third baseman <a href="http://www.latimes.com/topic/sports/baseball/evan-longoria-PESPT000010202.topic" id="PESPT000010202" title="Evan Longoria">Evan Longoria</a> receives $25,000 for
finishing 10th.

<a href="http://www.latimes.com/topic/entertainment/music/the-national-%28music-group%29-PECLB00000060633.topic" id="PECLB00000060633" title="The National (music group)">The National</a> League
MVP winner will be announced Tuesday.

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Justin Verlander become American League MVP

Detroit Tigers right-hander, who last week won the Cy Young Award, becomes the first pitcher since 1992 to win both awards in the same ...