Gang! It’s the first Comment of the Week in the post-Piniella era. What a time to be alive! I hope the changes around here aren’t too startling. You know Skip will always be here for you, even after that other #41 abandoned you all. It’s time for yet another weekly comment!





This week’s Comment of the Week comes from Noble White, who is THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS.

You heard it here first, and you can choose to believe it or not, but I have it on good authority that Lou deliberately avoided kicking dirt at umpires recently in order to keep his shoes clean so he�d look good in his last press conference. He was asked to do this by Ricketts and Hendry. This is why Theriot kept getting written into the one-spot, and why Zambrano got mad at all his teammates. Now Fukudome is going to step down (and move to Japan to save face), as are Ramirez , Soriano, and Z. I don�t know what players are being told now, and it won�t come out until they are gone, but winning is not the most important goal now; retiring to be with your mothers is.

Congratulations, Noble White!