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			<title><![CDATA[Teams with money to spend on free agents]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[There is a certain amount of eye-rolling that goes on in the ballparks of rival teams -- and in the offices of agents, for that matter -- any time the...]]></description>
			<pubDate>December 26, 2009 02:02:32 PST EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Closing proved more important for Capps]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Although the Chicago Cubs pursued a deal for Matt Capps, the former...]]></description>
			<pubDate>December 24, 2009 05:44:34 PST EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ESPNChicago MLB Chat]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[...to ESPNChicago.com! Baseball may be done in Chicago for this season, but the offseason is just...here to take your questions about the Chicago Cubs and Chicago White Sox.Send your questions now...]]></description>
			<pubDate>December 24, 2009 05:34:00 PST EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Closer Capps agrees to one-year deal with Nats]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[The Washington Nationals have signed Matt Capps to a one-year contract to be their closer for 2010.]]></description>
			<pubDate>December 23, 2009 19:56:47 PST EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Sources: Nationals, Capps close to 1-year deal]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Washington Nationals are closing in on a one-year deal with Matt Capps, who was not tendered a contract by the Pittsburgh Pirates earlier this month.]]></description>
			<pubDate>December 23, 2009 11:34:32 PST EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Ten most embarrassing Chicago moments of 2009]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Here are the 10 most embarrassing Chicago moments of 2009.]]></description>
			<pubDate>December 23, 2009 09:58:03 PST EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Decision between Cubs, Nats looms for Capps]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[...up pitching for the Washington Nationals or the Chicago Cubs in 2010. Washington has proposed two different scenarios...]]></description>
			<pubDate>December 23, 2009 08:21:34 PST EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[FanGraphs: Baseball's real MVP of the '00s]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Dave Cameron of FanGraphs explains why, as the decade draws to a close, Albert Pujols is not the game's most valuable player.]]></description>
			<pubDate>December 14, 2009 11:27:54 PST EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Santa Kruk Has Presents for MLB]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Santa Kruk stops by to give some presents to three Major League Baseball teams. Was your favorite team naughty or nice?]]></description>
			<pubDate>December 22, 2009 14:00:47 PST EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Thanks for the memories]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[...suffering, then -- poof -- he was gone. It was while he was on the mound that my fellow Cubs fans and I were teased worse than we've ever been teased before. I was hosting a...]]></description>
			<pubDate>December 22, 2009 13:03:29 PST EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Nats, Marquis finalize two-year, $15 million deal]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Free-agent pitcher Jason Marquis and the Nationals have finalized a $15 million, two-year contract.]]></description>
			<pubDate>December 22, 2009 08:55:19 PST EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Capps to decide between Cubs and Nationals]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[It's down to the Chicago Cubs and Washington Nationals for the services of reliever...]]></description>
			<pubDate>December 22, 2009 07:11:35 PST EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Reliever Capps to decide between Nats, Cubs]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Ten days after reliever Matt Capps landed on the free-agent market, he's down to deciding whether he wants to play for Washington or the Cubs.]]></description>
			<pubDate>December 22, 2009 06:47:24 PST EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[9:00 am ET : Henry Funeral, Yankees Hot Stove, McKnight Doesn't Travel]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[...that the Yankees have held discussions with the Cubs about acquiring the starter, who has a full...no-trade clause. In an email to the Chicago Sun-Times, Barry Praver says, ''[General manager] Jim...]]></description>
			<pubDate>December 22, 2009 06:00:53 PST EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[The internal trade deadline]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[In the hours after Alex Anthopoulos was named as general manager of the Toronto Blue Jays, he returned to his hotel room in Baltimore and just absorbe...]]></description>
			<pubDate>December 22, 2009 01:50:31 PST EST</pubDate>
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