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Time for Texas Hold 'em baseball

By Tim Keown
Page 2

Tuesday, April 26, 2005

Since every third channel on my Andro-laced cable system tells me poker is the hottest thing on the market, I'm wondering what baseball could learn from poker's popularity. Everyone who professes to love baseball seems to feel an undeniable urge to signal its demise, maybe only to be the one who engineers its revival. So here goes: More percentages. More numbers. If the Cubs get the leadoff runner on base in the first inning, put a graphic up there that tells me the likelihood that he'll score ...

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