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Good morning! Refuse that intentional walk today.

We can quibble with quantitative analyses and details later. But watching Game 1 of both the Stanley Cup Final and the Women’s College World Series championship last night left me with the best eye test result you can hope for in these situations: It feels like the two best teams are playing each other at the end.  Truly a wonderful thing. No flukes. Best-on-best, and last night’s winners were...

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