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    Bill Shaikin: Too many teams have no chance of winning and that's not good for baseball

    by Bill Shaikin, Los Angeles Times Feb 02, 2018 3 minutes

    LOS ANGELES - Bud Selig's stump speech always included three words: hope and faith. So did his Hall of Fame induction speech last year.

    Here was the former commissioner in 2000: "Every fan has to have hope and faith. If you remove hope and faith from the mind of a fan, you destroy the fabric of the sport."

    No fan, he thought, should be deprived of the spring training dream. After owners of rich teams agreed to

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