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Fair or not, Washington a lame duck

By Howard Bryant
ESPN.com

Thursday, June 4, 2009

NEW YORK -- There is something quintessentially American about Ron Washington, the Texas Rangers' manager, as he sits in the visiting manager's office at Yankee Stadium, fortified by a desktop computer screen to his left, scouting reports and a lineup card to his right, a plastic blue cigarette lighter atop a red-and-white box of Winstons near his hands. He at once is frustrated that the changing America is messing with one of his crippling vices -- "There're not too many more places where you ...

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