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After a little over 32 months writing about professional baseball here at Bugs & Cranks, it’s clearly time to stop.  I still love this site and the people who make it great, so I may stick around and cover amateur baseball, but I’m done with pro baseball. Not that I was hedging my bets exactly, but I’ll also be writing about other pro sports elsewhere on the interwebs starting next week — look for an announcement early next week.

Back in the early 80’s, Howard Cosell decided to stop calling profesional boxing. A deeply moral person like me, Cosell based his decision on seeing one too many gross mismatches, and the corruption of the sport’s governing bodies, its meaningless titles and the people who profited from the obscenely...