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A game for the ages

By Eric Neel
Page 2

Monday, August 22, 2005

It has been awhile. We haven't used the Page 2 Showdown Simulator since Bush-Gore and Aguilera-Spears in the supercharged fall of 2000. But when the Royals started dropping games like spent cigarette butts these past three weeks, inspiring crusty, sweaty old men on bus stops and park benches to say, to no one in particular, "Losers? These guys aren't losers. You want to talk losers, let's talk the 1988 Baltimore Orioles. Now those guys could lose," we knew it was time to dust it off and crank it ...

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