* Sportswriter on Torre book: So what?

January 30, 2009

Well said, sir.

In another piece about the Torre book, Jay Price of the Staten Island Advance notes what a long, slow off-season it’s been for the sports desks:

Most of the revelations turned out to be as shocking as finding out Rush Limbaugh’s not planning any sleepovers at the Obama White House.

What’s that you say? A-Rod’s needy?

Gary Sheffield’s stand-offish?

Well, knock me down with a feather.

Next thing you know, somebody will be telling us David Wells was fat.

He goes on to say about those sports reporters who have been crying over a perceived betrayal,

Because the guys writing all those frothy stories about narcissism and betrayal at the corner of 161st Street and River Avenue hadn’t read it. [See my previous entry about Wells.]

Not that that it stopped them from being appalled — in much the same way the Vichy police captain in “Casablanca” was shocked to learn there was gambling at Rick’s — that Torre would violate the what-happens-here-stays-here sanctity of the clubhouse.

Anyone who can put baseball and Casablanca in the same paragraph is aces with me. But he should have added Shakespeare, too.

Much Ado About Nothing.

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