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September's significant for baseball's bottom nine

By Jerry Crasnick
ESPN.com

Thursday, August 30, 2007

Revenue sharing and the wild-card system are a major boon for competitive balance, "hope and faith" and all that other good stuff, but every gimmick in the world can't save an organization from years of mismanagement and bad decisions. Feel free to take a bow, Orioles and Pirates. While the media obsesses over Alfonso Soriano's quadriceps, Willie Randolph's bullpen management skills, the "Joba rules" and other pennant-race issues, baseball's afterthought franchises have already faded from cont ...

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