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Not ready for some football

By Jon Greenberg
ESPNChicago.com

Monday, September 28, 2009

In the home clubhouse of U.S. Cellular Field on Sunday morning, generic country music blared on the speakers and a baseball game was on the big TV, the one with 10 football helmets lined up atop it. The other TVs were dark. It could have been 1985, the good ol' days of baseball, when men talked about hitting with two strikes and drank workingman's Pabst Blue Ribbon together hours after a game ended. Fantasy football? Even if it existed outside the fringes of fandom, it wasn't for real men ...

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