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The Sopran-O's

By Tim Kurkjian
ESPN The Magazine

Wednesday, February 23, 2000

The true snapshot of the 1999 Orioles comes only with the negative. Same nightly picture: Albert Belle sits alone at the postgame spread, bothering no one but acknowledging no one, his body language screaming, "Stay away, and no one will get hurt." His furious eyes focus on his usual meal: four yogurts, placed roughly four inches apart. What is he thinking? Perhaps about what's most important to him -- his four at-bats that night. It's a sad team portrait. The Orioles were once baseball's fines ...

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