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Editor's note: Read the American League preview. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - March 31, 2005 | When we left off of baseball five months ago, the Boston Red Sox had just won the World Series, the most amazing thing that's ever happened anywhere in the world since the beginning of time etc. etc., unless Boston's come-from-behind win over the Yankees in the A.L. Championship Series was.
Since then it's all been about steroids, as you may have heard. But now it's spring. The birds are chirping, the flowers are blooming and the perfect emerald blanket yadda yadda American pastime pop of the leather and crack of the bat fathers sons smell of hot dogs endless possibility of a clean scorecard time is here. Two choices for reading the rest of this article and all of Salon: |
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