Article: BAAAAAD ENDING FOR BATISTA'S HEROICS.(Sports)(Column)

Byline: Bernie Lincicome News Staff Writer

NEW YORK -- The conversation was about rats in the Arizona Diamondbacks dugout, big rats.

``A Massachusetts-sized rat,'' Mark Grace said. ``An asteroid sized rat.''

Now is that any way to talk about manager Bob Brenly and relief pitcher Byung-Hyun Kim? I'm sorry, that would have been about goats. Rodents, like this one, can be trapped and removed. Brenly and Kim are still around to cause more harm.

What a hard-head Brenly has. And what a generous arm Kim has. Between them they have all but wrecked the Diamondbacks. Without them, the World Series already is over and the good citizens of Arizona ...

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