Uh, people of color are overwhelmingly more likely to be victims of this kind of violence. That does indeed make race a relevant issue in this case.

If a man is truly racist and you keep telling him he's a racist even when he thinks he's not, what incentive does he have to keep trying? Nothing he does is ever going to be right if he gives his opinion regarding the actions of a black person.

"Off the field distractions."

This is deeply insulting to Street Sense, which I'd much rather read that the Times.

Given that he already had issues with this same injury early in the year and only just came back, and that he's owed a whole lot of money over the next two years, I doubt he was going to be a hot commodity anyway.

That depends on trusting the Rockies' front office to make good decisions about which prospects to trade for. That seems pretty unlikely.

You think "fag" wasn't considered that offensive in *2005?* Come the fuck on.

The funniest part of this is that Ortiz also complained that players today are "too sensitive," which takes a lot of nerve for David Goddamn Ortiz, he of the constant bitching about official scorer decisions, to say.

There's a lot of people that probably had to be involved. The teams. Law enforcement agencies. MLB, which seems pretty likely to have a whole bureaucratic process for this kind of thing. The players' association. That kind of thing takes time. The announcement of the postponement of the game in Boston after the…