The editorial process was compromised from the start. How could any self-respecting writer accept free travel and hotel and goodies from Nike and somehow expect he'll be free to write whatever he wants? A first-year journalism student would know better.

Maybe, just maybe, it's because they came of age back in the day when Springsteen ruled the rock world. They were fans then, and they continue to be fans today.

I don't know anyone who has "misconstrued" that song. Pretty sure everyone gets the notion it's about people living in the past (i.e., their glory days).

There's a Dwight Evans on Line 1 who would like a word with you.

Whoa, hold your horses there, big fella. Dwight Evans is on the line and would like to have a word with you.

All you're saying is you don't care what the facts are, you KNOW what you believe.

AAA is all about building more roads, guzzling more gas and promoting driving at the expense of the environment. It actively lobbies against environmental legislation and public transit in favor of big oil and the car companies.

Maybe where you live. Not in a lot of states.

Samer, please stop writing about baseball. Every time you do your ignorance shines through. Dragging a foot isn't going to make a lick of difference. Once he steps into the dugout it doesn't matter what happens with his other foot.

That really wasn't much of a throw. It was a high, arcing throw, which takes a lot longer to get to its destination. And yes, pretty much every outfielder can throw a looper like that.

It's not just having a family. $18k a year isn't going to take you real far in any large city, where average rents are over $1,000 a month and will eat up large chunk of your income straight away.

Not. A. Travel. Please just stop.

By "American beer" you mean beer produced in mass quantities by large national and multinational companies and sold to the masses at WalMart.

So I assume you'd say the same if true about NFL refs (who get overturned more than MLB umpires), NBA refs (who would if there were full-blown replay) and NHL refs (same).

That call was incredibly close at second base, so close I don't see how they decided to overturn it. To suggest that any human being in real time, with only one angle and no second chances (unlike the announcers and viewers at home who can scream, "That's a terrible call!" and then eat their words 10 seconds later)…

The same could be said of any sport: The casual fan certainly isn't going to "get" what makes baseball exciting to a lot of people. To most people football (the U.S. version) is three hours of huddles and timeouts with a smattering of 5-second plays interspersed.

Gee, if only there were an article one could read that made that EXACT POINT:

Do you REALLY think this is funny or clever???

Just shut up, idiot.

OK, I usually HATE those "Who cares?" commenters, so I'm being hypocritical here. But this is so far inside-the-media I can't imagine anyone outside the Bristol area code getting past the first paragraph.