The sheer unmitigated sanctimony of most sports “reporters” (which bleeds over to their readers) is the reason I choose blogs over ink-on-paper and multinational-corporation outlets.

It took them about 30 years for about half of them to stop using BA and W/L as primary performance stats after better ones were made readily available - any bets on the year they’ll finally have an informed approach to PEDs? 2045? 2109?

It’s just sad that these people actually get HOF votes.

OOPS! That comment was supposed to be on another thread. Apologies.

At the risk of coming off myopic, could the lack of a sturm und drang be attributed to the West Coast, considering most of the prior Manny hand wringing came from New York and Boston writers.

Also, I find it difficult to believe that the fans’ perception of Manny would change much if Manny were to explain “how and why and when he violated baseball’s drug policy,” least of all Plaschke’s.

I think Plaschke is overlooking the central fact that Manny is being prevented from playing major league baseball. That is punishment. While playing might be Manny’s job, playing on the sport’s best stage and getting paid for it is a fantastic thing, Millions of people play this game JUST FOR FUN. While it might be nice to take BP at Dodger Stadium and get free cough syrup, not playing and notbeing paid is a substantial punishment.

Maybe Plaschke is the kind of guy who would love to go to his office, hang out, drink free coffee, but not actually work at all. For anyone who actually likes what they do, being prevented from doing and getting fined would be hard to take.

MJ—he didn’t, actually. While it may not be AP form, I often mash together single line paragraphs into full paragraphs for readability purposes.  Just because those bozos chop them up in order to fill predefined column inch requirements doesn’t mean I have to.

I wonder if Bill thinks all the NFL titles of the 70’s are tainted….those dudes certainly werent drug free…...Probably shoul dput asterisks next to all of em.