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A's heart beats up the middle

By Jerry Crasnick
ESPN.com

Monday, February 27, 2006

PHOENIX -- Nothing brings a double-play combination together like six weeks of shared tedium in Florida or Arizona. You arrive at the ballpark early and work on flips, feeds and pivots. Then you bake for a month in seven-inning increments. Then you sit around the clubhouse with a cold beer and dissect what went right and wrong. Then you wake up the next morning and do it all over again. The bonding process played out quite nicely in Oakland's camp two springs ago, right until the moment Bobby ...

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