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Pointing out the very bad

By Jim Caple
ESPN.com

Thursday, September 4, 2003

How about doing everyone a favor and cutting Mike Maroth some slack? So he has a chance to become the first pitcher in a quarter century to lose 20 games in a season. Big deal. Tigers owner Mike Ilitch sells Little Caesars pizza and no one makes him feel guilty for that. We're not going to give you the old cliché about how it takes a pretty good pitcher to lose 20 games, but we will say that not even a good pitcher could win with these Tigers. They're averaging 3.5 runs per game (less than t ...

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