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When other teams are getting better presently, and we're not, you're going to get your butts beat, and that's exactly what's happening. I'm not going to take responsibility for this. If I had been given a $40 million or $45 million payroll, and we were getting beat like that, I'd stand up like a man and say it's my fault. I'm not going to do it. If you want answers to what's going on here, you call up the new ownership group and let them give them to you.

Lou Piniella

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