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Season can't end soon enough for some

By Jerry Crasnick
ESPN.com

Wednesday, September 17, 2008

The 2008 baseball season has had an abundance of feel-good stories, from Josh Hamilton's first-half fairy tale to Cliff Lee's story of redemption to Dustin Pedroia standing up for little guys with big motors and bigger mouths. But as Colorado manager Clint Hurdle is so fond of saying, the game has two kinds of people -- those who are humbled and those who are about to be. In this week's edition of Starting 9, we turn our attention to nine players who entered the season with high expectations ...

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