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Sorry, but this slot machine is broken

By Jayson Stark
ESPN.com

Wednesday, June 3, 2009

Fifty million bucks. Roll that around your tongue. Fifty million bucks. That's not this week's Powerball jackpot. That's the unofficial, early-line, insane price tag Scott Boras has theoretically slapped on the forehead of the surefire No. 1 pick in next week's baseball draft, Stephen Strasburg. Fifty million bucks. What a farce. You wouldn't think baseball would need a Richter scale bonus number like that to decide it's time to fix the most dysfunctional draft in professional sports. But ...

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