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The Morning According to Us

By Paul Kix

Thursday, May 14, 2009

The only thing more humiliating than being cut by the lowly Orioles at 23 is to try to make your way back to the Show through an independent league, where, at age 25, you and your wife must live in an assisted-living facility. Life is not kind to Josh Faiola. Or at least it has a sense of humor. Faiola is a pitcher with the Lake Erie Crushers. The Crushers, like all teams in the Independent Frontier League, have little money to offer their players. So families in the community host them dur ...

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