Remarkable Alan Schwarz column on Lidle

Again, feel free to merge, but this is one of the best columns I've read in a long time:

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/columns/story?columnist=schwarz_alan&id=2622245

 

I listened to Schwarz being interviewed tonight about this, when the story broke. I couldn't believe it. Just eerie.

 

Wow.

 

Solid effort. This is the kind of reporting that reminds us all why we're journalists.

 

That about sums it up.

 

Good leg work to talk to the guys at the pool hall.

And the ending is chilling, to say the least.

 

Excellent, excellent work, which I otherwise would've missed. Thanks.

 

Shit. Totally engrossing from the start.

 

I didn't realize journalists and players could be poker buddies.

 

Schwartz did a helluva job with that column ... i was hooked from the start

 

I know of some guys who play golf with players sometimes on the road, too. You spend that much time together, you have to be human beings at some point. I have no problem with it whatsoever.

So long as, if something ever comes up that requires him to do so, reporter discloses relationship with player to readers during coverage of story.