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Surprise, surprise: the new book of baseball tells us to expect the unexpected--and the early chapters of the 2004 have been filled with plot twists.(Baseball)
The Cubs and the Red Sox are good. Barry Bonds, with great frequency, hits the ball really far. And this concludes the we-told-you-so portion of the program.
The rest of this space will be spent on delving into the things that you weren't expecting--the 3-0 curveballs, if you will. And there have been plenty of them because the main story lines of April are just more chapters in the new book baseball started writing last October. A sport that for so long was known for its rigid imbalance and predictable results now passes around success and failure with great fluidity.
The Yankees, with their Rotisserie league roster, often have gotten barbecued. The ...
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