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Opinion: April 22 buzz: Giving up sweets; saving the Dodgers

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Most viewed: 40 days, 40 nights, no sugar

Cant seem to stay on your diet? Diana Wagman feels you. Which is why you may appreciate her trick to giving up sugar: Temporarily adopt Catholicism during Lent and let spirituality see you through.

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Most commented and shared: Baseball’s blues: It’s not just the Dodgers

The league takeover is a commentary on the rotten economic state of Major League Baseball, writes Dave Zirin. He recommends that MLB find its way out of this Dodgers mess by having fans own our hometown baseball team as the people of Green Bay, Wis., do the NFL’s Green Bay Packers.

The team is owned by the fans, the only publicly owned, not-for-profit major professional team in the United States. This has created a relationship between team and community unlike any in the NFL. Not only has home field been sold out for two decades, but during snowstorms, the team puts out calls for volunteers to help shovel and is never disappointed by the response.

The response on our discussion board has been mostly positive, saying Zirin’s ‘out-of-the-box, community-based solution’ is ‘clever,’ ‘spot on,’ ‘democratic,’ ‘reasonable,’ ‘modest’ and ‘gets it right.’ Of course, there are the token haters; they tended toward such adjectives as ‘drivel.’

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