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Posted by: SportsinaCan on Oct 16, 2009 at 08:46:28 PM

Last year I presented the official Sports in a Can list of the Worst-Run Organizations in Sports. It's time to see where the teams stack up one year later.

With the Arizona Cardinals improbably making a run to the Super Bowl last year, I have moved them off the list (they were #5 last year). But their .373 winning percentage since 1999 and a history of repeated failure could land them right back where they've always been next year. And last year I noted that the Tampa Bay Rays made the leap off the list by advancing to the World Series. But their trade of pitcher Scott Kazmir (a noted Red Sox and Yankees killer) when the team was just 4½ games out of the Wild Card almost put them back on the list.

Beyond the Cardinals and Rays, there are plenty of bad organizations out there deserving

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