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Time to kill the winter meetings

By Jim Caple
Page 2

Wednesday, December 6, 2006

Is there a point to the winter meetings anymore, other than to separate general managers from their wallets? There was a time, I suppose, when the meetings provided welcome attention to baseball during a long, cold winter by providing fans with trade rumors to fuel the fires of the hot-stove league. But when was the last time anyone saw a hot stove, let alone sat around one? We live in an era of central heating, 24/7 media attention and OPS, and yet we still pretend fans are sitting around a pi ...

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