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Let the second season begin

By Tim Keown
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Tuesday, October 4, 2005

The best moment of the first round of the baseball postseason is predetermined. The series will be White Sox-Red Sox, and the moment will be the first time Manny Ramirez steps into the box with the game on the line against White Sox closer Bobby Jenks. For sheer cumulative weirdness, nothing will top it. Manny is the most eccentric talent in the game, and Jenks is the best and most unlikely story in the playoffs. Jenks is something out of a Cormac McCarthy novel, a backwater Idaho kid who grew ...

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