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Blame the system, not the Yankees

By Peter Gammons

Saturday, November 7, 2009

The morning after the Yankees won their 27th World Series, one of their scouts sent an e-mail that read: "You cannot believe how Brian Cashman treated all of us scouts and the little people. It was tremendous." It was refreshing, because the clichéd response to winning the World Series seemed to be a universal "The Yankees bought the Series," as if somehow they went outside the rules of law and bought Cook or Palm Beach County. Look, there are serious inequities in the system that we will ...

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