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Nice job, Pirates ... you just helped the Yankees

By Jeff Pearlman
Special to Page 2

Tuesday, July 29, 2008

He was supposed to be a new kind of thinker. Smarter. Deeper. More focused on development, with the skills and insight to match. At least that's what I was told repeatedly five months ago, when members of the Pittsburgh Pirates organization were downright giddy over the hiring of the team's new general manager, a 38-year-old from the Cleveland Indians organization named Neal Huntington. After the bleakness and doom that signified the Cam Bonifay and Dave Littlefield eras, when one bad transa ...

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