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Earlier Tuesday, cigarette in hand, Leyland offered this prediction: "There's no doubt in my mind that at some point, I hope not in the next couple of years, because I'll be here, that he'll manage in that game."

The manager of the All-Star Game, of course, is the manager who took his team to the previous World Series.

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