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Day 96 of the Major League Baseball lockout in New York was the form of March day that normally will get folks itching just a little extra for Opening Day, because of temperatures sneaking into the 70s.
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If you closed your eyes, you would envision your self sitting at Yankee Stadium or Citi Field sometime this spring, together with some 40,000 different followers. The heat climate may need additionally led you to activate a Grapefruit League sport — Yankees-Red Sox and Mets-Cardinals have been initially on faucet for Monday.
Instead, that eyes-closed model of baseball is about as shut as it can get for the Yankees or Mets for what looks like the foreseeable future.
