Ken Rosenthal is a DB

Today on ESPN’s OTL Ken Rosenthal took on a blogger for speculating that Raul Ibanez might have been using PED’s to improve his performance this year. In Rosenthal’s thinking, the blogger could not speculate anything in his blog because it did not adhere to a “simple standard of decency.” When asked about what the standard of deceny was he said, “Would you want this written about yourself?”

This is coming from the guy who wrote this about the Red Sox:

Yet, fairly or not, Ramirez’s messy divorce with the Red Sox could raise suspicions that the team prefers a certain type of player — unassuming, conformist, white. The current makeup of the team’s roster might create similar notions

There you have it: Mr. Hypocritical, DB of the Year: Ken Rosenthal