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BRANDON WEBB IS BUSY RESTING

By Buster Olney

Wednesday, July 2, 2008

The assignment is to shadow Brandon Webb for six days. The task, made possible by unprecedented access, promises to be a lesson in one man's obsessive desire to dominate. No major league pitcher could be as successful as Webb is, you assume, without thousands of crunches and hundreds of hours in a darkened video room, studying hitters with the focus of a ninja. Wait, who's that guy on the field fiddling with the toy airplane? "You can get it up pretty high in here," Webb says cheerfully, sta ...

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