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Good morning! Refuse that intentional walk today.<\/p>\n
We can quibble with quantitative analyses and details later. But watching Game 1 of both the Stanley Cup Final and the Women\u2019s College World Series championship last night left me with the best eye test result you can hope for in these situations: It feels like the two best teams are playing each other at the end.\u00a0
\nTruly a wonderful thing. No flukes. Best-on-best, and last night\u2019s winners were…<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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