He, like lil Bobby Costas are dyed in the wool athlete asskissers and liberals millionaires, like the moron Mike Lupica.
Recognize that all sportswriters are products of the same culture and atmosphere as the other reporters in the newsroom. Just because they happen to work in the "Toy Department" doesn't excuse them.
In most cases, Liberalism was a condition of being hired.
It is also a point of fact that, like their cohorts in the newsroom, baseball writers have no clue as to the game they're writing about. Serious baseball fans understand the game better than they do -- even though the writers are in the park, watching and writing, every night (Gammons, though, is the rare exception to this rule).