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Georgian soldiers run near a blazing building after a Russian bombardment in Gori, 80 km (50 miles) from Tbilisi, August 9, 2008. A Russian warplane dropped a bomb on an apartment block in the Georgian town of Gori on Saturday, killing at least 5 people, a Reuters reporter said. The bomb hit the five-story building in Gori close to Georgia's embattled breakaway province of South Ossetia when Russian warplanes carried out a raid against military targets around the town.
CARSON, CA - JULY 31: Andre Villa practices in the Moto X Freestyle during the summer X Games 14 at Home Depot Center on July 31, 2008 in Carson, California.
A woman collects drinking water from a tube well at the flooded village of Godadhar in Faridpur July 27, 2008. Several areas in north and northeastern Bangladesh remain inundated with floodwaters after the embankments of the rivers Jamuna and Padma collapsed due to heavy rainfall earlier this week.
LONDON - JULY 25: Reese Hoffa of United States competes in the Men's Shot Put Final during day 1 of the Norwich Union Aviva London Grand Prix at Crystal Palace Stadium on July 25, 2008 in London, England.
Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim looks back from his Permatang Pauh Parliament seat at Parliament house in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Thursday, Aug. 28, 2008. Anwar took his place Thursday as a member of Malaysia's Parliament, a major step in his goal to topple the government weakened by electoral defeats and internal dissent.
Democratic Presidential Nominee U.S. Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) and Vice Presidential Nominee U.S. Senator Joe Biden (D-DE) appear onstage at the 2008 Democratic National Convention in Denver, Colorado, August 27, 2008. Democrats nominated Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) on Wednesday as their presidential candidate in a historic first for a black American, sending him into battle against Republican John McCain.
DENVER - AUGUST 27: U.S. Democratic Presidential nominee Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) (L) speaks as U.S. Democratic Vice-Presidential nominee Sen. Joe Biden (D-DE) smiles during day three of the Democratic National Convention (DNC) at the Pepsi Center August 27, 2008 in Denver, Colorado. U.S. Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) will be officially be nominated as the Democratic candidate for U.S. president on the last day of the four-day convention.
US Democratic presidential candidate Illinois Senator Barack Obama (L) addresses supporters with Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius (C) and Missouri Senator Claire McCaskill (R) during a rally in Kansas City, Missouri, 29 January 2008. Obama is on the campaign trail to try to clinch the Democratic Party ticket in the race to the White House.
US actor George Clooney poses during the photo call of the movie 'Burn after reading' at the 65th edition of the Venice Film Festival in Venice, Italy, Wednesday, Aug. 27, 2008.
VENICE, ITALY - AUGUST 27: Actor George Clooney during the 'Burn After Reading' Photocall part of the 65th Venice Film Festival at Palazzo del Casino on August 27, 2008 in Venice, Italy.
U.S. actor George Clooney poses at the Film Festival in Venice August 27, 2008. Clooney stars in Ethan and Joel Coen's movie "Burn After Reading" which is shown out of the competition at the Venice Film Festival.
You just have to ... You have to forget about it. You can't just go 'We swept the Red Sox, so we're good.' We have a goal in mind, and that's to play in October. I think it forgetting about Boston is already done with now. We're looking forward to Kansas City. It's like we're on a mission. 
That's one of the things I talked to Cliff Floyd about ... He stressed the importance about when teams who we know we can beat come in, we've got to beat them. The biggest thing for us - it's easy to bump up your intensity to play the Red Sox when the building is like this, but that will be the true test for us as far as how far we've come when maybe we have 15-20,000 in here and it's not as loud and we're playing the Royals.
We do expect to win on a nightly basis regardless of who it's against ... Once again it's a great feeling and we've worked to get to this point to earn the right to have that feeling. Now we have to maintain it. We can't play down to the perceived ability of our opponents.
I think we understand this Kansas City series, and series that are out of our division, are the series we really need to win ... It always happens where the teams in the A.L. East just beat up each other. The Yankees and Red Sox are going to go after it now. Everybody beats up on each other in the division. We have to focus on winning the Kansas City series and the Cleveland series. Those are going to be the series that gets us over the hump and into the playoffs.
It's interesting to see what we do ... I think we'll respond fine and we'll be all right. We had the big Cubs series and big sweep of them and kind of let our guard down the game after a 4-3 loss to Houston and came out dead. We had an off day Thursday; we'll be refreshed and ready to go.
Scouts on that circuit are beginning to compare Holland to Tampa Bay southpaw Scott Kazmir.
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