It's become one of those rites of baseball. Every spring, the Yankees emerge in pinstripes, the Fenway franks hit the grill and Nick Johnson begins his inexorable march toward the disabled list. No one was surprised Thursday when Johnson, now the designated hitter for the Baltimore Orioles, landed on the 15-day disabled list, the 14th time in 12 seasons he's been sidelined. The wire reports noted that his latest injury, a sprained right wrist, was "not related" to an inflamed tendon on the same hand from last year. But when you're dealing with Johnson, all of those injuries are related...
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