Not unlike its refusal to use an independent lab and auditor for its illegal substance abuse testing program of its players, MLB may have to revisit its head-in-the-sand approach to many of its policies; and in this most recent bugaboo; its umpire training, evaluation and post-season selection process.
Given the climate of broadcast and newspaper outlets offing their talent near retirement age, it makes sense in some circles that some would want to gain instant and unabated relevance, whether or not the story is true or not.
By Ryan McGowan
If, as T.S. Eliot once wrote in The Waste Land, “April is the cruelest month,” then March is the second cruelest, but only if you happen to hate basketball.
(Which, since basketball was invented in Springfield, Mass., makes you un-American and probably a Communist.)
When a player walks away from the NFL without catastrophic injury, it should not relieve the NFL or the NFLPA of their obligation to allow players to continue some semblance of an adequate quality of life for chronic disabilities suffered thereafter.
