Baseball Toaster was unplugged on February 4, 2009.
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While you and I wait on the Alex Rodriguez deal and the ensuing dominoes, read the Sports Bard's meter-free treatise on suffering. It dovetails with my March entry, "The Meaning of the Game," in examining why we put up with all the frustration that accompanies our love of our team or our game.
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