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Season-opening letdown

Tuesday, March 25, 2008

It was a long and brutal winter in baseball, a time when the most-discussed figures in the game were George Mitchell, Roger Clemens and Brian McNamee, and today is supposed to be the day when spring would officially arrive, with the first official game of the Major League Baseball season. The alarm went off at 4 a.m. ET, leaving plenty of time to sip coffee and scroll through the newspapers online and prepare for Joe Blanton to throw the first pitch of the season -- an actual pitch, not sp ...

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