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Why would they love him? He saddled the team with huge contracts for declining and broken down players, liquidated the farm system, and has been wholly unable to replace the existing talent through the draft.
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"When the Know-Nothings get control, it will read 'all men are created equal, except negroes, and foreigners, and Catholics.' When it comes to this I should prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretense of loving liberty – to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, and without the base alloy of hypocrisy.”--Abraham Lincoln
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