It’s simply adorable that a man who has been around this business so long and who dealt with the media as deftly as Michael Weiner has still expects that same media to not jump to immediate conclusions the second PED news comes out:
Baseball union head Michael Weiner said it would be unfair to make judgments about players and agents before evidence is sorted out in the sport’s latest drug investigation ... “This investigation that MLB is running has yet to produce any evidence that any player has violated the program, much less than any agent has violated the program,” Weiner said Thursday. “It’s unfair that both players that have had distinguished careers and that agents who have had distinguished careers such as ACES have had their names raised in this context.”
What’s next, Michael? A player gets cleared and you expect the media to report that with even a fraction of the volume with which they reported the guy’s name appearing in the records in the first place? To actually treat him like he’s cleared if and when he is?
Such naiveté with respect to how the baseball press rolls is so sweet that it’s almost heartbreaking.
