Wednesday, June 04, 2003 :::
This is one of those days that makes me wonder whether life is a trick question. In particular, here at work I think I'm being tricked into trying to figure out what some sound and fury is signifying. I have a guess.Let's then move on to something more consequential to our daily lives: sports. I'd like to know whether the news station in any station other than Chicago was reporting last night, hours after Sosa's ejection, that he had been ejected for "allegedly" using a corked bat. If it really was an accident, one wonders how many times this accident has happened in the past, a question that was hinted around but not quite raised at the press conference at which the Cubs' manager made something of an ass of himself. (I don't know that he actually denied knowing what a corked bat is, but he came close.) On the other hand, MLB has Sosa's other bats now, and Sosa claims that no cork will be found in any of them. If that's the case, we can believe that this was essentially a one-off, and a ten-game suspension seems sufficient.
::: posted by dWj at 11:07 AM
