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It's been an offseason like never before

By Jayson Stark
ESPN.com

Friday, February 6, 2009

We don't use words like "collusion" lightly at times like this, in a world like this. So somewhere in this column, we're going to search for a different word, a more fitting word, to describe what might be the strangest offseason in modern baseball history. For the moment, we don't know quite what to call it. But let's just say we're convinced what we've been witnessing hasn't been business as usual. How far from usual has it all been? Well, we interrupt our national obsession with the conti ...

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