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The forecast is gloomy.(Baseball)
Cubs manager Dusty Baker sits in the dugout before a Cactus League game, talking about the clouds of suspicion that are enveloping the major leagues entering the 2004 season.
"I know about clouds," says Baker, who was ordered by then-commissioner Peter Ueberroth to undergo mandatory drug testing after his name surfaced in testimony during the Pittsburgh drug trials involving big-leaguers in 1985.
"Whenever there's a cloud, some people look at you and you don't know what they're thinking. Sometimes the rain is more relieving than the cloud itself. Acid rain is better than the cloud."
Major League Baseball will get no such relief. Nor will any of ...
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