LOL! Well, that ends the Trifecta. I can sleep tonight. 
@DCPatriot There's a rumour now that ESPN's Jessica Mendoza---who also works as a Mets advisor---may face the guillotine, after she attacked Mike Fiers for blowing the public whistle on Astrogate. I'd written late in 2019 about the conflict of interest involved when reporters (actual or alleged) also work as team advisors. Now Mendoza may get herself executed over it.
Said she:
To go public, yeah, that didn't sit well with me. Honestly, it made me sad for the sport, that that's how this all got found out. This wasn't something that MLB naturally investigated, or that even other teams complained about ... but that it came from within. It was a player that was a part of it, that benefited from it during the regular season when he was a part of the team.Say I: There actually were whisperings about it for the last couple of years among numerous players and others inside baseball. As a reporter myself for a very long time, I can tell you this: You could have a room full of sources on something that big but unless you can find just one who's willing to put his or her name on the record, your editors won't let you put so much as a "Guess what" into print anymore, not if they're scrupulous, whether you have ten or ten hundred deep-cover sources. Especially from inside a place where the culture's demand to keep your big yap shut or
else is as powerful as it is in professional team sports---or, say, police work.
I've alluded to the 1960s-early 1970s rampant corruption in the New York police department. I knew well enough that the whisperings about that corruption were real and loud but until even one cop was willing to go on the public record all it would
be was whisperings, so far as editors were concerned. That's why it took until two cops, Frank Serpico and David Durk, who'd been trying to fight corruption from the inside until they'd beaten their heads against their last walls (Durk was well connected in the city but every one of his connections suddenly quaked over the idea of busting police corruption open), finally took it to the
New York Times in 1971, before anything could or would be done.
Who knows how many walls Fiers beat his own head against about Astrogate until he finally decided the headache was too strong to keep him from taking it to
The Athletic?
And who knows how many baseball reporters aware of all the whisperings and talking to a pile enough of players unwilling to go on record beat their heads against the walls until Fiers finally blew the whistle publicly?
