They waited two minutes, yelling and screaming and banging. Long enough for the chants of ``We want Curt" to soften, as if the crowd had started to fear he wouldn't materialize. But he did, popping out of the dugout and blowing kisses to seemingly all of the 36,409. (Full article: 628 words)

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