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No big deals this year

By Jayson Stark
ESPN.com

Sunday, July 31, 2005

So who needs Manny Ramirez when you've got Ron Villone? And Soriano, Schmoriano. Big whoop. Heck, Geoff Blum got traded. “ We were all honoring Peter Gammons today. The whole industryshut down. ” — Boston assistant GM Josh Byrnes And then there were Matt Lawton and Kyle Farnsworth. On a July 31 that put the "dead" back in Deadline Day, we'll look back on them as having singlehandedly (OK, make that doublehandedly) saved the ESPN Trade Deadline Special. Uh, didn't ...

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