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Let the (interleague) games begin

By Brendan Roberts
ESPN.com

Thursday, May 21, 2009

Ah, interleague play. The baseball purists still like to trash it some 12 years after it began, but for me, it's one of the highlights of the season. To me, baseball is about matchups -- batter versus pitcher, pitcher versus pitcher, slugger versus slugger -- and in interleague play, I get to see matchups I wouldn't normally see. That just makes the game more enjoyable. For instance, this weekend we get to see the Red Sox versus Johan Santana and Daisuke Matsuzaka versus David Wright. Clayton ...

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