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Bedard trade underscores effort to get better now

Baseball Digest Daily found this 2/9/2008 on seattlepi.nwsource.com

HOW TO DESCRIBE the Mariners' prolonged tango with the Orioles over Erik Bedard? A slog? A game of high-stakes chicken? An expensive wedding where one participant nervously awaited a partner racked by second thoughts? It's moot now. A Friday news conference formerly pronounced Bedard and the Mariners Ace and Team, and no one dithered when asked if the expected offspring is a playoff berth in ...