31.   Still, this is his livelihood, and winning is the barometer by which every major league manager is measured, even if it is an expansion club.

32.   That he would sign with an expansion club helped put the Diamondbacks in a new light.

33.   Take the other expansion club, the Tampa Bay Devil Rays, for example.

34.   The Angels were long considered the model for expansion clubs.

35.   The Devil Rays, who will play in the AL East, are an expansion club going nowhere.

36.   The expansion clubs also went heavily for pitching.

37.   The first-year teams, which embark on their maiden voyages Tuesday, might be the best expansion clubs ever.

38.   The Panthers and the Jacksonville Jaguars are the new teams in the National Football League and, like all expansion clubs, will have to take their lumps.

39.   The other factor in permanent interleague play is the placement of the expansion clubs.

40.   The Rockies made the playoffs last season in only their third year of existance, the quickest trip to postseason play by any expansion club.