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The fine whine between winning and losing

Thursday, May 14, 2009

The wife immediately recognized the blood-curdling scream as the voice of our 4-year-old son Wednesday afternoon, and with her maternal instinct sounding with five-alarm fear, she rushed out of the living room and ran to the stairs. "Is Jake OK?" she yelled. "What happened?" "Sheffield took a slider for strike three and the Mets lost," I replied. Ol' Jake wailed for another 10 minutes before his body finally stopped shaking. He's got a problem. He's got some Steinbrenner in his personality: T ...

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