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Instant baseball karma's gonna get you

By Eric Neel
Page 2 columnist

Wednesday, September 17, 2003

You're going to hear a lot of talk in these last days of the baseball season -- a lot of so-called playoff-chase "analysis," a bunch of "breakdowns," predictions, and explanations. Forget it. Put it out of your mind. Ignore the numbers. Screw strategy. Pay no attention to clutch performers, key match-ups, or injury reports. That stuff's all well and good in June, but this is crunch time; and in crunch time, hard data is soft. It's the soft stuff -- ethereal vibrations, deep echoes of history, ...

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