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Bryce Harper free agency haunts Nationals

ANALISIS/OPINION

Nearly 10 years ago, New York Yankees president Randy Levine and Washington Nationals owner Ted Lerner — both George Washington University alumni — took part in a forum at the school to discuss the economics of the game.

Levine told the crowd because of the pressures on the Yankees, it was their goal to win the World Series each and every year.

Lerner got a few laughs with his response, “I might add, we’re not concerned with winning the World Series this year.”

I thought of that exchange when I saw Nationals outfielder Bryce Harper in a Yankees uniform on the back page of Saturday’s New York Daily News, with the headline “Bats to the Future.