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February 25, 2007
Dodgers: Attracting attention
Not sure exactly what it means, but there has been at least one national writer here almost every day since camp opened, and as of 8:15 this morning there already are two of them here today. While it's not uncommon for those guys to swoop in periodically while working on their season preview stuff. But it's striking just how many of them have been here just in the first 10 days. Seems to suggest that the bar of expectation around this team has been raised considerably. Remember what the Dodgers' image was just a year ago? Remember when Bud Black wouldn't even interview for the manager's job because of the perception that this was a franchise in ruin? Those days are over. The guess here is anything short of a playoff berth will be deemed a colossal failure. Another three-and-out exit from the first round might be deemed that way, too.
Posted by Tony Jackson at February 25, 2007 05:08 AM