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Monday
Ordinarily, I’m a big fan of teams retiring players’ numbers. I think it’s a great way to honor the best players in their franchise’s history and create some nostalgia for fans. But Monday was the anniversary of the Tampa Bay Rays retiring Wade Boggs’ number in 2000, and that’s always struck me as a transparently desperate attempt to build history…
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