My friend Dave Kindred has more fundamental integrity than anyone else I know in this business. He also loves this business far more than it ever has deserved to be loved. So when he sounds the hogwash alarm, it behooves all of us to listen.

This may be inside baseball. None of you may care. Tough. As I said from the start, this is my blog. You don't like what's in it? Start your own blog. For the Associated Press Sports Editors to sanctify fraud with that organization's highest honor, and for the recipient then to preach sanctimoniously about a craft that he disgraced, makes me weep for this business. We have something of an obligation to police ourselves. In that spirit, I associate This Blog with every word Dave Kindred wrote.