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The Most Average Team of the Decade

Our former president once joked that C students could one day become president themselves, to which your editor asks: why bother with politics when you could be the next Ken Vining? Part five in a series.

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Best of the Worst Teams of the Decade

At the decade’s end, it really only matters what you value. Hilarity, for example, can be a reasonable substitute for pride. Part three in a series.

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Worst of the Best Teams of the Decade

When are 96 wins no better than 90, and when are they even worse than 89 (which were technically 88 in the first place)? When you’re the Chicago White Sox, that’s when. Part two in a series.

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Sanitarium

It was a good night if you’re a Tigers fan (and it sounded like there were quite a few at Comiskey tonight) as the kittens kicked off what this writer is certain will be a five-game sweep of the last-place Sox. The Good Guys were up 6-5 when Mark Buehrle left the mound and by [...]

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  • "[New] Comiskey's tragedy is one of hype, not hubris. Sold to the public as a new-fangled stadium with old fashioned intimacy, it is in fact a theater designed by the dictates of the dollar -- a theater in which perception and reality combine to form the wrong sort of high drama."
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