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I swear, I didn't want to be the guy that keeps harping on payroll discrepancies in baseball.  But then I discovered one of the depressing things about payrolls .  And then the great Joe Posnanski got in on the act , pointing out that baseball has a tendency to hide dominance - that ...
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