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		<title>Realignment</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sounds like baseball is talking about realignment.  Specifically, they want to even out the leagues at fifteen teams apiece, and add an additional wild card to each league.  Both of these seem like bad ideas &#8211; with fifteen teams in each league, one team is *always* off on a given night, unless interleague play is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.everyfingerintheroom.com/2011/06/realignment/</link>
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		<title>There&#8217;s Still Doubt, Tom</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tom Verducci of Sports Illustrated writes not only about Josh Hamilton being the best player in baseball, but that there &#8220;possibly [isn't anybody] this good, this big, this fast and this unique &#8230;. since Mickey Mantle in his prime.&#8221; Let&#8217;s ignore for a fact that there aren&#8217;t levels of uniqueness &#8211; you&#8217;re either unique or [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.everyfingerintheroom.com/2010/08/theres-still-doubt-tom/</link>
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		<title>Billy Wagner</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The latest news here in Boston is that Billy Wagner will be heading to the Red Sox after all.  Wagner has a no-trade clause with the Mets, and a club option for $8 million next season. The trade was initially thought to be a no-go, because in order for Wagner to waive his no-trade clause, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.everyfingerintheroom.com/2009/08/billy-wagner/</link>
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		<title>More Small Market Hypocrisy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Pittsburgh Pirates traded Nate McLouth to the Braves for three prospects.  When you trade the best player on your team for prospects at the beginning of June, it&#8217;s a clear indication that you&#8217;ve given up on the season.  According to this ESPN report, Bucs manager John Russell says &#8220;the trade should not be taken [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.everyfingerintheroom.com/2009/06/more-small-market-hypocrisy/</link>
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		<title>WHERE IS THE MORAL OUTRAGE??</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I suppose I should be angry, saddened, outraged, or some other emotion after hearing that Manny Ramirez has been suspended fifty games for violating the league&#8217;s substance abuse policy. I just don&#8217;t care. I&#8217;m not surprised in any way (other than the usual surprise I get when people are actually caught by the testing, since [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.everyfingerintheroom.com/2009/05/where-is-the-moral-outrage/</link>
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		<title>Starting Strong</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t know if Zack Greinke has a nickname yet, but since Big Z is already taken by Carlos Zambrano, and he&#8217;s bigger than Greinke, I vote for Little Z.  Or maybe just Z.  Or Z-G.  Whatever. Two years ago, at my auction draft, I picked up Greinke near the end of the draft for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.everyfingerintheroom.com/2009/05/starting-strong/</link>
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		<title>The Dance</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Most people, when writing about March Madness, will go ahead and give you their brackets, and their upset specials, and who didn&#8217;t get the right seed, who should have been in, and who should have been out.  I&#8217;m going to give you some completely different stuff that you don&#8217;t care about. Cry all you want [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.everyfingerintheroom.com/2009/03/the-dance/</link>
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		<title>Second Chances</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s very rare that I have any sympathy for steroid users, but Jay Gibbons is the exception.  Gibbons was suspended for violating Major League Baseball&#8217;s drug policy, and was later named in the Mitchell Report as an HGH user.  The Orioles cut Gibbons before the start of the 2008 season and, presumably because of the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.everyfingerintheroom.com/2009/03/second-chances/</link>
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		<title>Karma Police</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So&#8230; A-Rod is out six to nine weeks due to surgery to repair a torn labrum.  It&#8217;s a temporary surgery, a stop-gap measure to allow him to play this season, after which he&#8217;ll have surgery that will supposedly fix it for good. Consider me skeptical. Two names come to mind when I think about this [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.everyfingerintheroom.com/2009/03/karma-police/</link>
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		<title>The A-Rod Lie</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So, A-Rod&#8217;s coming clean&#8230;. sort of.  He was outed, and so he admitted using steroids.  Commendable, I guess.  Sort of.  Maybe.  Here&#8217;s the part that screams I AM STILL LYING to me (from SI.com): Rodriguez says a cousin, whom he would not identify, first introduced him to a substance he referred to as &#8220;Boli&#8221; that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.everyfingerintheroom.com/2009/02/the-a-rod-lie/</link>
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