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Remember back in junior high when your teacher gave you alternatives to writing academic exercises and instead let you format papers in fictional dialogues between famous people? Imagine what Cicero would have said to Karl Marx if they ever met on the street. Write a conversation between Dante and Magellan about sailing around the wold or under it, and so on. So along comes Steve Martin who went to school before teachers were this nice, and he decides to write a fictional meeting between two of the 20th century's most formative figures, Pablo Picasso and Albert Einstein, not knowing...
...This year has been very frustrating," said Cicero, who finished the season with a 1-3 record, one save, and a 3.86 ERA. "The injuries hurt us, but we haven't performed well as a team...
Ubaldo stood at third with two outs when an odd sequence of events led to the winning run. Cicero, pitching to catcher Wilke, wild-pitched Ubaldo home on an attempted squeeze. Cicero said that there was a mix-up on the pitch with Wilke, but the rare two-out suicide squeeze attempt must have added to the confusion...
...They tried a squeeze with two outs," Cicero said. "But there was some confusion on what pitch was called...
...Cicero viewed this loss as typical of the team's performance this year...