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October failure always magnified

By Jayson Stark
ESPN.com

Tuesday, October 18, 2005

ST. LOUIS -- Byung-Hyun Kim. Donnie Moore. Bob Stanley. Stan Belinda. Tom Niedenfuer. And, of course, Dennis Eckersley. When the calendar turns to October and we think of all those closers we just named, we forget to think about all the games they saved. Or all the swings and misses they induced. Or all the hands they shook after all the final outs they collected. Nope. Can't do it. Not this time of year. We think instead of the biggest games of their lives -- the games they didn't save, t ...

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