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Just like you, but perfect

By Jon Greenberg
ESPNChicago.com

Thursday, July 23, 2009

CHICAGO -- How does he do it? That's the company line, the inside joke, the way we deal with a normal dude like Mark Buehrle doing abnormal things like throwing a perfect game, winning a World Series, and marrying the pretty girl he proposed to in a deer stand. How does Mark Buehrle do it? Look at him. He's a monster-truck-driving, deer-hunting, self-proclaimed country boy who strains to hit 90 on the radar gun and was picked in the 38th round of the 1998 amateur baseball draft. Did you ev ...

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