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Predicting players' futures, a thought on the Citi Field changes and the big DVD review

Back in a simpler time, baseball teams could actually conclude their offsesaon business by Thanksgiving. In 1998, for instance, the Yankees won the World Series on October 21, and by November 25, the night before Thanksgiving, they had re-signed Scott Brosius, David Cone and Bernie Williams, squeezing in a major flirtation with Albert Belle that - thankfully for them, it turned out - fell apart...

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