Dearest Jeffrey:<div>  I am flattered you can name even one player on my team. The Rips, like Twinkies, will be back on top this summer. We may not be healthy, but we're a lot of fun.</div><div>-Brother Brad Lee<br><br>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 4:39 PM, Jeffrey Winick <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jhwinick@aol.com" target="_blank">jhwinick@aol.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<div style="font-family:'Open Sans',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:18px">Moustakas has been scratched from Tuesday's lineup due to a foot injury, <a href="https://twitter.com/Royals_Report/status/311496266553106432" style="color:rgb(2,93,140);text-decoration:none" target="_blank">Bob Dutton of the Kansas City Star</a> reports.</div>


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<div style="font-family:'Open Sans',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;margin-top:5px;font-weight:bold"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial;font-weight:normal;line-height:normal">Were this a Berliner player, the conclusion would be dire and you'd have heard about it already from Brad Lee.  Something along the lines of:  "His season is over, dump him now while you still can."</span></div>


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