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“I Don’t Deserve That Ninth Inning Right Now”
And now it’s Eric Gagne asking for a change of job description, in some ways a little more bluntly than Jason Isringhausen sought and got a kind of mental break after his latest lapse a night earlier. This is a series that has got to make both the Milwaukee Brewers and the St. Louis Cardinals think. They open the weekend with alternating wins each of which convinces the other ...
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Game Over? Gagne’s Descent Dissected
Can't Stop The Bleeding — ... earlier today, but Gagne wasn’t summoned. “He still wears his uniform casually enough to suggest amiable slovenliness; he still has the grizzly visage of his suddenly-seem-brief peak seasons; he still has the rumbling delivery and sweat-salted cap,” writes The MLB Source’s Jeff Kallman, however “that’s about the only thing that today’s Gagne shares with the Cy Young Award winner who once brought Dodger Stadium to its feet and to somewhere beyond the top of its voices.” ...

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