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    U.S. baseball team has something to prove at Olympics
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    "Hopefully we'll get it back in 2016, but if this is the last one, we have to make the last one count ... We need to go out with a bang." Baseball's Olympic flame will be extinguished after Beijing, which has only fueled the fire of a U.S. squad determined to prove itself on the world's biggest stage. Full Article at The San Jose Mercury News
    Hopefully we'll get it back in 2016, but if this is the last one, we have to make the last one count ... We need to go out with a bang.
    – Brett Anderson SOURCE: The San Jose Mercury News 16 months ago
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U.S. baseball team has something to prove at Olympics
  1. Hopefully there are no tie games and it doesn't come into play
    – Brett Anderson SOURCE: The San Jose Mercury News 16 months ago
  2. We know it's not going to be easy
    Davey Johnson – Davey Johnson SOURCE: The San Jose Mercury News 16 months ago
  3. Hopefully we can show not only the U.S. but the whole world that baseball is our national pastime and make it a big deal on the international scene, too.
    SOURCE: The San Jose Mercury News 16 months ago
  4. It's interesting. It's certainly not the way traditionalists would want a game to end
    – John Gall SOURCE: The San Jose Mercury News 16 months ago
  5. It'd be nice to win it and display the sport at a high enough level where the Olympic Committee changes its mind
    SOURCE: The San Jose Mercury News 16 months ago
  6. We've got some work to do
    SOURCE: The San Jose Mercury News 16 months ago
  7. Everybody wants to beat us in baseball. We know we're kind of marked.
    SOURCE: The San Jose Mercury News 16 months ago
  8. My guys are professional; they are all knocking on the big league door
    Davey Johnson – Davey Johnson SOURCE: The San Jose Mercury News 16 months ago

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