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Manuel, McNabb hardly out of their league

June 18th, 2009

Maybe the motivation was to get out of the office for a day. Whatever the reason, thousands of them streamed from the parking lots into the Wachovia Center yesterday to get pumped up by Zig Ziglar and Steve Forbes, Colin Powell and Rudy Giuliani.Oh, yes. And Charlie Manuel and Donovan McNabb.Now the idea of the Phillies’ folksy manager and the Eagles’ un-folksy quarterback serving as inspirational speakers sets up almost as many jokes as there were attendees at the arena. Manuel has acknowledged his own discomfort with public speaking, and McNabb’s news conferences have often been clinics in how to talk without actually saying anything. For most of this off-season, he avoided talking …

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