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OT: SOX SKIPPER TO LEAD MCCAIN BATTLE

In a surprise move, Red Sox manager Terry Francona last night accepted an offer from Senator John McCain to supervise every aspect of his faltering campaign for the Presidency in the period remaining before November 4th, Election Day. The move came less than an hour after Francona’s club had scored eight runs in the last three innings of Game Five of the American League Championship Series, doing away with a seven-run lead by the Tampa Bay Rays, who had appeared to be on the verge of a pennant and a berth in the 2008 World Series. Francona will supplant the incumbent McCain campaign director, Rick Davis. “I’m a maverick, too,” Francona declared in a press conference.

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