[counterpunch]

My favorite part was this:

If you saw a baseball game and you saw a pitcher wind up and throw a fastball and hit a batter right smack in the head, and it really, really hurt them, you'd want to know why the pitcher did that. And you'd wonder whether or not the person just reared back and decided, "I've got bad blood with this batter. He hit two home runs off me. I'm just going to hit him in the head as hard as I can."

You also might wonder whether or not the pitcher just let go of the ball or his foot slipped, and he had no idea to throw the ball anywhere near the batter's head. And there's lots of shades of gray in between.

You might learn that you wanted to hit the batter in the back and it hit him in the head because he moved. You might want to throw it under his chin, but it ended up hitting him on the head.

FITZGERALD: And what you'd want to do is have as much information as you could. You'd want to know: What happened in the dugout? Was this guy complaining about the person he threw at? Did he talk to anyone else? What was he thinking? How does he react? All those things you'd want to know.

And then you'd make a decision as to whether this person should be banned from baseball, whether they should be suspended, whether you should do nothing at all and just say, "Hey, the person threw a bad pitch. Get over it."

In this case, it's a lot more serious than baseball. And the damage wasn't to one person. It wasn't just Valerie Wilson. It was done to all of us.

And to use yet another baseball analogy, "Fitzgerald really struck out on that one."
Or maybe, "Fitzgerald threw a wild pitch."
How about, "that was way out in left field."

[Miss Marple]

That baseball analogy was when I decided to go to the grocery with my daughter. I am pretty good at deciphering fast talkers, and I understand legalese. But this press conference was absolutely incomprehensible.

I will spend some time tomorrow trying to figure this out, but there are enough holes in this thing as I scan it to make me believe a good defense atorney will have no problem beating Fitzgerald.

[demlosers]

If you saw a baseball game and you saw a pitcher wind up and throw a fastball and hit a batter right smack in the head... was done to all of us.

Yeah, a lame analogy and a over-the-top conclusion

[ptrey]

Can a prosecuter do what FITZMAS did today? The way I heard it, He was accusing Scooter of crimes as though he was already proven guilty that he wasn't even indicted for. If so; what can Scooter do about it?

TIA, Will

[auboy]

Using another baseball analogy, in this case the tie goes to the Fitz. I demand instant replay. Catcher interference.