Look for the Union Grave

Michael Weiner, the only graduate of Williams College, aka The College of Middle Earth, aka Zork State, to be any good at baseball, has died of a brain tumor at the age of 51, thus sparing himself the agony of having to stand by Alex Rodriguez in his circus. Weiner brought a rare semblance of common sense to his role as executive director of the Major League Baseball Players Association, a role formerly held by irrational, pompous douchebag Donald Fehr. Whereas Fehr and moron commissioner Bud Selig sat idly by while baseball tried to steroid and PED itself to death, and then Fehr ignored the wishes of the vast majority of baseball players and dug in his heels to counter efforts to expand drug testing, Weiner reached agreements to try and catch and punish the miserable cheats ruining the greatest game. Baseball’s drug testing policy is now the most comprehensive in sports. He was also able to negotiate a 5-year labor contract without a lockout or strike, which previously had been as crucial to the process as ink and paper.