I think Colin Quinn was the sidekick to Ken Ober on "Remote Control."

 Lupica is a person who won't stop talking about ARod while complaining about the attention that ARod receives:

"In the real baseball summer of 2013, on the eve of the ’13 All-Star Game Tuesday night at Citi Field, who knew that the big story wouldn’t be Alex Rodriguez once again batting fourth for the New York Yankees, but perhaps becoming the latest Biogenesis All-Star to take baseball’s version of the Fifth with the MLB investigators working the case?"

2013?  '13?  ARod wears number 13?  I think we can all see where this is going.


"To the end, Rodriguez — about to begin his 10th season with the Yankees if he gets the chance — is a baseball season all by himself. He is the center of attention that he has always craved to be, even playing alongside Jeter. Just not in a way he ever imagined for himself."

Lupica may not believe me ... Lupica may know his gossipy audience better than I do ... but most baseball fans don't need ARod to be the center of attention.

I want to read one comment somewhere in the Universe that puts the spotlight on Shawn Kelley.  Does Kelley belong on the All Star team?

"On Thursday, Michael Weiner, the head of the Major League Baseball Players Association, issued a statement lamenting all the leaks in the Biogenesis case. Weiner had to amend that statement later, just because anybody who saw the original version had a right to assume Weiner was implying that all the leaks were coming from Major League Baseball, when Weiner has to know better.

Because anybody actually working this story instead of just reading about it knows that is as funny as the best material from Colin Quinn. And remembers that none of this happens if the original story about A-Rod and Braun and the other Biogenesis All-Stars doesn’t end up in a newspaper called the Miami New Times."

The best material from Colin Quinn?  What would that be, exactly ... Lenny the Lion?  So the idea that MLB leaked the info is funnier than Lenny the Lion.

Terrific.

Then it's a moderately funny idea.


"This is the real baseball summer of ’13. The summer of No. 13 of the Yankees. The rest of us talking about who’s taking the Fifth instead of batting fifth in tonight’s game."

Yes!  Number 13 for the Yankees in the summer of '13. 


"The rest of us" talking about the Fifth instead of who's batting fifth.

Probably Lyle Overbay, by the way. 

The disregard of Lyle Overbay is your fault, not ours.  Write an article about Lyle Overbay, please.  I challenge you to write one observation about an actual on-field baseball event instead of digging through the cultural archives for weird references to B-List comedians.