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It is, by now, a rerun, seen as often as old episodes of "Seinfeld" or "M*A*S*H." Tony Armas takes the mound. He throws enough pitches in the first inning to get some men through three. And he leaves -- head down, body limp -- before the Washington Nationals have reached the middle of the game. There is no punch line, no laugh track. There is only misery.

"I can't say anything that hasn't already been said," Manager Frank Robinson said late last night after watching Armas's latest episode. "I don't know how many ways I can say it. He's just not giving us the performance we are counting on him to give us."

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