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Leading Off: Stay patient with slow starters

By Eric Karabell
ESPN.com

Monday, May 4, 2009

In a few weeks, it will be the seventh anniversary of the day Shawn Green taught fantasy owners a valuable lesson. I was reminded of this lesson a week ago when Dexter Fowler ran wild, and Sunday when Carl Crawford ran even wilder. The day was May 23, 2002, when Green pounded four home runs for the Los Angeles Dodgers at Milwaukee. I watched it happen from the ESPN Bristol office, and while I didn't know it then, I won a league title that day. What, I won a title in May? How does that happen ...

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