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			<title><![CDATA[Source: Figgins closing in on deal with Mariners]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Seattle appears close to a deal with free agent third baseman Chone Figgins, a source familiar with the team's thinking confirmed to ESPN.com Friday.]]></description>
			<pubDate>December 04, 2009 10:05:10 PST EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Stark: Top five plotlines of winter meetings]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Will Roy Halladay be traded? Will Bay, Holliday or Lackey sign? Those are among the top five plotlines heading into next week's winter meetings.]]></description>
			<pubDate>December 04, 2009 03:01:05 PST EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Polanco signs 3-year, $18M deal with Phillies]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Only a physical stands in the way of Placido Polanco becoming the Phillies' next third baseman.]]></description>
			<pubDate>December 03, 2009 06:07:41 PST EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Source: Phillies targeting Polanco to play third]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[The Phillies are targeting Placido Polanco to play third, according to a source.]]></description>
			<pubDate>December 02, 2009 15:48:21 PST EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Weighing McGriff's HOF candidacy]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[I haven't even gotten my Hall of Fame ballot in the mail yet. But how come I already have the impression Fred McGriff's candidacy is going to get tram...]]></description>
			<pubDate>November 30, 2009 10:52:20 PST EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Three Strikes -- Mailbag No. 2 edition]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Before we ingest approximately 588,000 calories while watching the Detroit Lions do their inimitable Thanksgiving thing, it's time for another mailbag...]]></description>
			<pubDate>November 25, 2009 10:27:37 PST EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Three Strikes: Award-winning edition]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Strike One -- Albert's Eight-Ball Dept.

As you contemplate the greatness of Albert Pujols, don't measure him just by the three MVP awards he's won.

...]]></description>
			<pubDate>November 24, 2009 09:19:40 PST EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Three Strikes -- Mailbag edition]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[...few years ago -- some sort of payroll floor. The other sports have one. There's no reason baseball shouldn't. I don't care where baseball decides to set that minimum -- $40 million, $60 million...]]></description>
			<pubDate>November 20, 2009 07:46:02 PST EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Stark: Rumblings and Grumblings -- Revenue sharing a mess]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Cries for a salary cap were sparked by the Yankees' winning the World Series, but what baseball really needs is a minimum payroll threshold.]]></description>
			<pubDate>November 19, 2009 04:50:50 PST EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Three Strikes -- Deadlines and dollars edition]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[...anywhere -- Most Dollars Spent in the Aughts (via the USA Today Salary Database and the Biz of Baseball Web site). And here's what we found: The Yankees paid out more than $1.76 billion...]]></description>
			<pubDate>November 10, 2009 06:05:52 PST EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Stark: Gang of Four still pride of the Yankees]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[The old faces of the Yankees -- Mariano Rivera, Derek Jeter, Jorge Posada and Andy Pettitte -- connect the last title team with the one that was crowned after knocking off the Phillies in six games.]]></description>
			<pubDate>November 04, 2009 21:33:25 PST EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Damon amazingly steals his way into history]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[...put it, Ty Cobb "probably had tons of these plays." But there was no retrosheet.com, no baseball-reference.com and, for that matter, no dot-orgs or dot-coms of any description back then...]]></description>
			<pubDate>November 02, 2009 11:53:29 PST EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Phillies not ready to give up title yet]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[The Phillies aren't quite ready to hand over their championship belts, and in Game 5, they fought off the Yankees and forced this World Series back to New York.]]></description>
			<pubDate>November 02, 2009 20:36:51 PST EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Damon steals the show in Game 4]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Two stolen bases on one pitch. Johnny Damon's ninth-inning feat might end up as the defining moment of the World Series.]]></description>
			<pubDate>November 01, 2009 20:42:36 PST EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Stark: Pettitte finds way to another October win]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Andy Pettitte was in trouble early in Game 3, but he calmly found his way out and ended up with yet another postseason win. Make that a huge postseason win.]]></description>
			<pubDate>October 31, 2009 21:17:45 PDT EST</pubDate>
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