[USML Announce] Klein Subject Of Commissioner's Investigation?

[Andrew R. Klein]

Klein vows not to respond until J.D. Drew plays more than two games in a 
single week.

Only a few days until Bean Season.  All eyes are on the Red Hots ...

-Andy

PS to Brad:  Will you *please* stop whining and crying about my rule 
proposal that failed?  If you write another one of these messages, I 
promise to start a thread on the relative merits of Jerry Tagge and Bob 
Avellini.

Brad Jansen wrote:
> On the heels of Andy Klein's admission that he traded for minor 
> leaguers just days before introducing legislation that would then ban 
> such deals comes the latest news about Elijah Dukes' threats to his 
> estranged spouse. 
>  
> "The news reports stated that Dukes' wife filed court papers seeking 
> an order of protection weeks before Klein talked Kerber into making 
> such a preposterous trade," USML ethicist Jeffrey Winick read from a 
> prepared statement at his weekly news conference.  "My office has 
> received allegations--and at this time that's all they are--that Klein 
> is close to certain Republican operatives in Florida's judicial system 
> and was made aware of the Dukes' marital dissolution many weeks 
> ago. What I want to know--what the League needs to know-- is what Andy 
> knew and when he knew it.
>  
> "It matters little to me that the Klein-9 are in 4th place and in a 
> virtual freefall. Standings don't matter to me; integrity, however, 
> does.  Klein's shameless efforts to permanently ban the trades of 
> minor leaguers shortly after he acquired a stash of them was one 
> thing.  But marketing Elijah Dukes with the knowledge that he was 
> facing a potential lifetime ban from baseball is something else. And 
> how ironic that Dukes was one of the minor leaguers Klein acquired 
> before trying to ban such trades.  
>  
> "The fruit of the poisonous tree fell at Klein's feet--and he took a 
> perilous bite.  Like Tony Soprano, Klein is slouching to Bethlehem 
> (/see /Yeats); one wonders if a similar fate awaits both of these 
> sociopaths." 
>  
> Winick stated that he would interview Klein when Winick signs copies 
> of his children's edition of /Fantasy Baseball/ in Indianapolis 
> next month ("They're slow readers down there," Winick explained).
>  
> Klein was not responding to calls or emails this morning. 
>  
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