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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cutty Sark" data-source="post: 402686" data-attributes="member: 4643">You people make me sick!Please!The Angels are the Cinderella story? The Yankees are baseball? Ladies and gentlemen, you are ignorant or your minds have been poisoned by ESPN's longball hype machine.There was only a brief mention of the small-market team with this year's Cy Young and MVP awards all but wrapped up. And there was absolutely no mention of the team they face in their ALDS, the team with baseball's best farm system and a decade of baseball's lowest payroll. The team that took their 1999 AA team and turned them into the best fielding team in recent history, a team with six different, individual All-Stars in 2 years, a team more young talent than any three others in baseball. A team that has been called America's Team for the values that it represents, not the city it plays in.Maybe, when Oakland faces the fury of 55,000 screaming Midwesterners in a forbiddingly small Metrodome, and the Minnesota Twins fight their way to the bitter end of this postseason, as they did in 1965, 1987 and 1991, maybe then you will have a chance to see what baseball is truly about.</blockquote>