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			<title><![CDATA[Latest defector is an umpire]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[...WBC because of fears he would defect. Based on his experience, Diaz is obviously qualified to join MLB's umpiring roster, though it's unclear if any spots are opening up over the winter. MLB...]]></description>
			<pubDate>November 30, 2009 17:21:29 PST EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Vetting the BBWAA's Hall candidates]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[There are some tough ones on the BBWAA's Hall of Fame ballot this year.

Sure, there are some not-so-tough ones, too. First-timers Roberto Alomar and ...]]></description>
			<pubDate>November 30, 2009 14:10:47 PST EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[What IS Marco Scutaro?]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[OK, raise your hand if you had Marco Scutaro in the Hottest Free Agent Shortstop pool last spring.

Nobody? Hey, me neither. But he's the winner, whic...]]></description>
			<pubDate>November 30, 2009 11:10:24 PST EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[2013 is a long way off]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[...executive council. In effect, he was the interim (or acting) commissioner (though it took a while for MLB to refer to him as such). Upon assuming the position, he told his wife he'd have...]]></description>
			<pubDate>November 30, 2009 08:42:00 PST EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Monday Mendozas]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Today's links are just a flavor of what you'd have gotten if I hadn't taken some time off last week and left my power cord in a hotel room ...

* It's...]]></description>
			<pubDate>November 29, 2009 21:29:19 PST EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[One museum at a time]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[There are two baseball museums that every fan should visit. Oddly, one is in upstate New York and the other's in Kansas City, Mo. Of course you know a...]]></description>
			<pubDate>November 26, 2009 20:20:29 PST EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Friday Filberts]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Today's links were tidied up while I wondered if even the great Tim Lincecum could strike out Superman ...

	Yesterday was a strange day, especially...]]></description>
			<pubDate>November 20, 2009 00:21:03 PST EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Are teams really losing money?]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[...s saying that baseball doesn't operate in a vacuum. When the economy's hurting, so are MLB's revenues. I wouldn't be shocked to learn that a few teams really did lose money...]]></description>
			<pubDate>November 19, 2009 15:57:45 PST EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Digging into Cy balloting]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Let's dig into the Cy Young balloting, shall we?


Two voters, Will Carroll of Baseball Prospectus and Keith Law of ESPN.com, did not include Chris...]]></description>
			<pubDate>November 19, 2009 13:34:19 PST EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Do both Cy Youngs signal shift?]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[It's just one year. I'm not quite ready to declare that the paradigm has shifted.

As I wrote a few months ago, Bill James' method to predict Cy You...]]></description>
			<pubDate>November 19, 2009 11:36:25 PST EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Will October sked really be tightened?]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Hey, it turns out that Mike Scioscia wasn't the only baseball man who thought this year's postseason schedule was screwy. Bud Selig does, too!
 "We'r...]]></description>
			<pubDate>November 19, 2009 06:59:34 PST EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[A's going young in 2010]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[It looks like a fairly boring winter for the A's, at least if you believe Billy Beane ...
 In other words, he's staying the course that he set a coup...]]></description>
			<pubDate>November 18, 2009 23:45:38 PST EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Hot stove myths (or not)]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[From our old friend J.C. Bradbury -- here writing for the Huffington Post -- come four hot-stove myths:

1. GMs can buy low and sell high
"GMs have...]]></description>
			<pubDate>November 18, 2009 14:48:50 PST EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Tracy and Scioscia the easy choices]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[No real surprises here, huh?
 Jim Tracy of Colorado has won the NL Manager of the Year award and Mike Scioscia of the Los Angeles Angels has been sel...]]></description>
			<pubDate>November 18, 2009 11:55:55 PST EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[What's next for Ian Kinsler?]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Kinsler

After running through Ian Kinsler's many accomplishments in 2009 -- career highs in homers and steals, good fielding stats, more playing ti...]]></description>
			<pubDate>November 18, 2009 10:19:18 PST EST</pubDate>
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