Hannes Ziery was seen kissing Large Marge and telling us:
 HZ> They were not out of the race at all. OK nobody thought that the Bosox
Oh, they were out of it. The only thing that they had to play for was the 
wild card and it took a swoon by the Mariners to keep them (and the Orioles) 
in that race. Slocumb didn't do jack for the team until they were out of 
contention.
 HZ> card race. Of course if Slocumb would have had the same first part of
 HZ> the season as his second was the league standing would have been
 HZ> different.
Which is something he hasn't done yet.
 HZ> But the difference was that they were on top of the division despite the
 HZ> .500 mark.
They were hanging on by a thread before they got him. They began to separate 
from the field after that and if they didn't have Aguilera, they'd have lost 
the division to the Yankees.
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