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General Manager Mark Shapiro has no plans to fire Eric Wedge as the Tribe's manager.

``It would be absurd'' to fire Wedge, he said. ``He was second in the voting for manager of the year last season. In his first three years, he took a team from 68 to 80 to 93 wins. This has been a horrific, painful year. All of us need to take responsibility and take a close look at what went wrong.''

So Wedge will be back next season?

``That's my intention,'' said Shapiro. ``It's too easy to make a manager a scapegoat -- and at the first real sign of adversity, to fire him. We are all accountable, but I also think this season will make us all better.''

Shapiro has been impressed that the team has not self-destructed in a season of loss and doubt.

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