Forgive me.  I know many are sick of this, but Doug Glanville--who I guess is writing semi-regularly for the NY Times now--had this article up on the A-Rod pitch tipping story.

A couple of nice lines, I thought:

Still, we have to be careful not to make Alex Rodriguez our personal pin cushion, where we stick everything bad about baseball (or our lives) on the one person who we wanted to be everything good.

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And let’s acknowledge that we may never know the truth. That is, if we are actually, genuinely looking for it.

Here's another article by Glanville from the NY Times.  I think he made some good points.

Here were the best quotes--

There is a lot of outrage out there about Alex. Not surprising. But what really surprises me is the lack of outrage about how a confidential and anonymous test could be made public.

So: if Alex tested positive then, but he hasn’t since (and Monday he stated that he’s played clean since joining the Yankees), maybe that program served its purpose as a deterrent. If we take the higher ground and talk about the greater good of the game, then why create trust issues between owners and players by allowing an agreement to be breached this way? It undermines any sense of cooperation.

I don’t see the good in selling our souls while claiming we want to chase the devil from our midst.

From a Doug Glanville article in the NY Times:

"In my first year of free agency (six years into my major-league march) I preferred a place where I would have the opportunity to play the most. So I headed to Texas. After I got that out of my system, two seasons later, I went to where I thought I had the best chance to win: the New York Yankees."

But, but, but...crap I got nothin'.

Full article is just a 'human-interest' musing, but it's here if you want to read it:

http://tinyurl.com/dfb485

I was at the Rangers game last night, and it occurred to me that Zonk (the one who used to beat the drum for years) wasn't there.  Is he still around at all?  If he's not, does anyone know what happened to him?  As I spent most of the last decade overseas, I probably missed the stories of what happened to him.  Just curious.

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Well, anthropologists at least.  I guess we absolutely have to bring back the red jerseys now if we're ever going to be a winning team.

http://tinyurl.com/yrg3au

and more here

http://tinyurl.com/2bo2gx

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NYT article says Selig's contract extended until 2012.  http://tinyurl.com/2f79a8

And here's the bit that will warm every fan's heart--

"Selig, who pushed for interleague play and wild cards in the postseason, predicted more change over the next five years.

'By the time I leave, you won't recognize the sport,' he said."

to kick around any more.  Nor Blackistone, apparently.

Found this in a thread on the Newberg site, and thought I'd post here as not everyone here goes there, but everyone here has a view on Fraley.

http://www.dallasblog.com/dallas-blogs/2006/9/6/dmn-buyout-list-.html

As an ex-newspaper person, I hate to see any paper gutted, but since I don't really read the papers anymore myself, I can't really complain when other don't.  Is that 300 characters?

Much of this will be familiar, but I thought some might be interested in reading this defense of A-Rod in the Village Voice.

http://www.villagevoice.com/nyclife/0635,barra,74310,15.html

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