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Three Strikes: End of Two Eras Edition

By Jayson Stark

Friday, January 9, 2009

The Braves without John Smoltz? The Padres' bullpen with no Trevor Hoffman? How can that be? What's next? U2 without Bono? The Simpsons without Homer? Microsoft without Bill Gates? Oh. Right. Sorry. OK, so stuff does change in life. And in baseball. We understand that. But it isn't every week when two men so synonymous with their teams change employers at practically the same moment. So let's try to put the departures of Smoltz and Hoffman from their longtime gigs in their proper, Useless ...

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