Bud Selig's girly-men in the back room

• It would take one BBWAA member willing to lose his career to expose this fraudulent group and its practices. But that man, a man with guts, does not exist. Proving something about a person who chooses this as a career in the first place:

Mike Vaccaro, NY Post, 11/9/05

• "Mariano Rivera wasn't just robbed. He was mugged.
  

• He was pistol-whipped.

"He was bound and gagged and put under an interrogation lamp

• by a blind gaggle representing the Baseball Writers Assn. of America, who voted
  

overwhelmingly to make Bartolo Colon one of the most underwhelming Cy Young Award winners ever.

• "Ridiculous? It isn't just ridiculous,
  

• it's shameful. It's dreadful.""

"And don’t think for one second that the fact that

• Mariano Rivera plays for the New York Yankees

• wasn’t held against him

in certain quarters.

• So that makes it spiteful, too.""

via Leather Penguin, "Bastards"

• 11/10/05, LA Times by Larry Stewart, "They are trying to give closer Closure"