A SIDEWAYS GLANCE : FIRST EXPECTORATE, THEN MITIGATE.Gene Wojciechowski Gene Wojciechowski is a sports columnist, best known for his work with ESPN. Born in Salina, Kansas, he became a senior writer for ESPN The Magazine in January 1998, having worked as a football reporter for the network since 1992. of the Chicago Tribune Chicago Tribune Daily newspaper published in Chicago. The Tribune is one of the leading U.S. newspapers and long has been the dominant voice of the Midwest. Founded in 1847, it was bought in 1855 by six partners, including Joseph Medill (1823–99), who made the paper nearly choked on his Froot Loops after reading Roberto Alomar's prepared apology statement a few days ago. Wrote Wojciechowski: This couldn't have been the same Alomar who recently gave umpire John Hirschbeck a full facial saliva shower, or callously mentioned that Hirschbeck was bitter because of the death of his 7-year-old son to a rare brain disease. But thanks to a prepared statement - and a $50,000 pledge toward brain-disease research - Alomar sounded like Winston Churchill after the Battle of Dunkirk
The Battle of Dunkirk . ``While I understand that this gesture in no way excuses or mitigates my conduct,'' the Baltimore Orioles star supposedly said, ``I hope that it demonstrates my honest concern and complete remorse.'' Mitigates? I've never heard a ballplayer use that word in my life. Some of them still don't know Don't know (DK, DKed) "Don't know the trade." A Street expression used whenever one party lacks knowledge of a trade or receives conflicting instructions from the other party. about Watergate, much less mitigate. |
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