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• FOR THE WEEK OF AugusT 7 - 13, 2023 • YOuR WEEKLY guIDE TO TV ENTERTAINMENT Keltie Knight and Nate Burleson host "Superfan" It's been a less-than-stellar Major League Baseball season for the Cleve- land Guardians, who had high hopes following an unexpected playoff run last year. Kicking off the 2023 campaign with a 10-9 record in a mediocre AL Central division, the Guardians looked to build momentum in June when their offence began to heat up, with José Ramírez continuing to lead the charge in the second half of the season. Now, the Guardians look to close out their series against the Chicago White Sox on Sunday, Aug. 6, in a game streaming live on Peacock. Since making his Guardians debut in 2013, José Ramírez is a cornerstone of the Guardians franchise. Ramírez has consistently put on display an elite on-field performance over the past 10 seasons and, with a career batting average of .279, he has consistently come through with clutch hits and more than 200 home runs. He has also stolen over 180 bases, making him a con- stant threat at any point in the game. Proving he's worth every penny, the Guardians recently signed Ramirez to a $141-million contract extension. He was the team's lone representative in this year's All-Star Game (teammate Emmanuel Clase opted out due to family obligations), and he has led the team in multiple offensive categories, including slugging percentage and home runs. Impressively, Ramírez has, as of this writing, managed to pick up a hit in 76.7% of 86 games played. Those are solid stats, but the White Sox know how to slow him down. In their first three meetings, the White Sox walked away victorious, and Ramírez managed to pull off only one hit in those three meetings — something Ramírez will surely look to change in Sunday's match. Ramírez and Guardians look to keep momentum going By Roberto Jozef playerprofile By Adam Thomlison Q: What did Bob Barker do before "The Price Is Right"? A: The magic Bob Barker brought to "The Price Is Right" was in how he interacted with the contestants. And it was his gift with audiences that got him into the TV business in the first place. He actually studied as an economist but soon moved to a job in radio. His job at KTTS in Springfield, Mo., gave him his first taste of crowd work. "All the hosts were taking unrehearsed contestants out of the studio audience and creating spontaneous entertainment with them," he told Emmys.com (after being inducted into the Emmys Hall of Fame). "I had never been in a school play and I had never been in front of an audience be- fore, but I found that I thoroughly enjoyed it. My wife had heard the show and when I got home she said, 'That's what you should do. You do that better than you've done anything else.'" That's the sort of advice you shouldn't ignore, and he didn't. He soon moved with his wife to Los Angeles to do his own radio show, "The Bob Barker Show." And when TV producer Ralph Edwards heard Barker on his car radio, he knew he'd found what he was looking for: someone to host the new, daytime version of the hit game show "Truth or Consequences." Barker hosted that for 18 years. During the final two of those years, he moonlighted with an- other hosting gig, on "The Price Is Right." Bob Barker ON SYNDICATED celebrityUpdate OF THE PRICE IS RIGHT

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