The transgressions of their colleagues, both former and current, seem to be fully supported by the current staff. I’ve never heard of a single GM writer criticizing another over anything more serious than cereal choices (and yes, for a company that prides itself on transparency and seems to air its dirty laundry for…

If they keep assigning him this kind of dronework (“write a couple paragraphs about this highlight”) it’s possible he may go a couple weeks without making a complete idiot of himself.

I’m also baffled at how people aren’t getting something this obvious.

If by “diminish” you mean “utterly wreck in 95% of events.” We all enjoyed Katie Ledecky’s domination of the 800m—it would have placed her in (an impressive, all things considered) 29th at the last international men’s 800m freestyle. Eliminating the distinction is not really an option.

The “I know it when I see it” doesn’t make a very good basis for a rule and I doubt having officials arbitrarily make decisions by probing into an athlete’s history and personal life is going to be particularly popular, either.

A rule thus becomes, essentially, “please be honest with us!” Not sure the honor system is a good basis for a major sport’s rule.

That doesn’t mean the CPBL didn’t steal it from Fox, because they they very obviously did.

They all deserve each other, though.