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The New York Mets' guru problem

By Buster Olney

Sunday, July 26, 2009

A constant challenge for those who worked for George Steinbrenner when he ran the Yankees was to try to keep track of who had his ear and happened to have a lot of influence at the moment. Sometimes it might have been a sports writer, other times it might have been a friend. Sometimes it might have been a former executive he once had fired (who later had worked his way back into his favor), and sometimes it might have been a club employee who theoretically was stacked lower in the team's chain o ...

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