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If it's the Mets, it must be misery

There's a story in the Maple Street Press Mets 2009 Annual authored by Ted Berg, and it has stuck with me, even though I read it last month while I was in Miami for the World Baseball Classic.

Here's what Berg wrote: "Minaya took the correct approach to the 2009 season based on the elements that cost the team in 2008, and to some extent, that makes sense. But winning last year's battle...

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