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Team USA ready this time

By Jayson Stark

Monday, March 2, 2009

CLEARWATER, Fla. -- Three years ago, they had no idea what they were in for. They had no idea how ready the rest of the world was. They had no idea how not ready they were themselves. And, worst of all, the world-famous members of Team USA had absolutely no idea the World Baseball Classic was about to turn into their own little international embarrassment. "We thought we'd crush everybody," Todd Jones, a member of Team USA's star-studded 2006 bullpen, recalled Monday. "So we were all concerned ...

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