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MUGGER MUGGER posted 5/12/2008 from www.splicetoday.com [flag]
Sanctimonious sportswriters are more concerned with the private lives of ballplayers rather than what goes on during a game. Athletes are celebrities, and often wealthy, but who cares what they do off the field? [link]

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Splice Today: Just Watch the game
Published 5/12/2008 at BBTF's Baseball Primer Newsblog
Splice Today: Just Watch the game New York’s Daily News has been on a tear of late in its campaign to crush Roger Clemens, issuing daily revelations of his reported adultery and pathological hypocrisy, and the rest of the sports media has been glad to climb aboard the bulldozer aimed at the now smaller-than-life Texan. This is not a defense of Clemens’ apparently reckless and extraordinarily selfish lifestyle—and the allegations of his affair with a teenager when he was a 28-year-old Red Sox pitcher are truly creepy—but I’d rather not know the details. Unfortunately, if you ...

Private Lives, Glass Houses, and Bling
Published 5/13/2008 by noreply@blogger.com (Craig Calcaterra) at ShysterBall
... Anyone who has read Russ Smith's work over the years knows that he's not short of opinions. They extend to baseball too, and yesterday he let loose on what he sees as a disgusting level of coverage of athletes' private lives: ...

Leave My Favorite Athletes Alone!
Published 5/14/2008 by TheBigLead at The Big Lead
... We don’t know who Russ Smith is, and we’re not familiar with this website called Splice Today. But this is the kind of subhead that will get our attention: “The sports media’s fascination with the private lives of athletes has reached a new, and disgusting, level.” We don’t even know where to begin. Perhaps this anecdote is as good as any: The author was a huge Bob Dylan fan, until divorce proceedings made the paper, and it was reported that Dylan beat his wife up. “But what did that have to do with my ...