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Top priority is adding pitching

By Jerry Crasnick
ESPN.com

Thursday, December 21, 2006

Tampa Bay is the place where Greg Vaughn's bat speed went to die, Lou Piniella spent three years agonizing, and the organizational bigwigs barely cracked a smile when former promotional guru Mike Veeck proposed adding "Lawyer Appreciation Day'" to the schedule. Hey, you'd have trouble working up a sense of humor, too, after the Vaughn-Jose Canseco-Vinny Castilla-Fred McGriff "Hit Show" fiasco of 2000. After a shift from the Vince Naimoli ownership to the more fan-friendly regime of Wall Street ...

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