Dodger Thoughts: Growin' Up

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DePo's Got A Blog
Published 5/11/2008 by Rob (noreply@blogger.com) at 6-4-2 — an Angels/Dodgers double play blog
... . Great to see this! Maybe he can use it to explain in slow, careful sentences to a Dodgers front office (who apparently don't understand such things) why extending Nomar, signing Andruw Jones, Juan Pierre, and Jason Schmidt were bad ideas. Hat tip: Jon.

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