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Quality and quantity choices

By Jayson Stark
ESPN.com

Tuesday, June 22, 2004

Not-The-Gallup-Poll of the Week Eric Gagne and Mariano Rivera arrived for work at the same ballpark (Dodger Stadium) last week. Earlier in the week, so did Ken Griffey Jr. and Jim Thome (at Philadelphia's Citizens Bank Park). Which got us to thinking. ... If you needed one closer right now, to save a big game, would you hand the ball to Gagne or Rivera? And as Thome roared by 400 homers last week, at age 33, and Griffey hit No. 500, at age 34, we wondered: Who will wind up with more home runs ...

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