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Michael Weiner faces the twilight

Michael Weiner

FILE - In this Nov. 28, 2012 file photo, baseball union head Michael Weiner speaks during a news conference in New York. Weiner says, Monday Feb. 25, 2013, there’s active discussion about increasing the penalties for violating baseball’s drug testing program. Weiner says players have very little patience for seeing their peers try to cheat the system. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II, File)

AP

Union boss Michael Weiner doesn’t have long. His doctors say that his cancer will kill him in between two and six months.

However Chris Jones of ESPN the Magazine met with Weiner recently and what he found was a man who goes to work everyday and appears to have as healthy a perspective on his fate as anyone in his position might be expected to have.

Screw cancer. Seriously. Screw it sideways.