August 5
Kansas City Star
columnist Bradford Doolittle
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The latest Jose Guillen controversy is troubling, but maybe not for the reasons you think. Shrouded in the rhetoric in comments regarding Guillen's clubhouse antics is a bit of conventional wisdom that screams to be debunked. And no, we're not talking about the quotes in which Guillen has been portrayed as everything from Beetlejuice to Ward Cleaver. My personal stance on athletes is that they are human, exceptional in some ways, flawed in others. Who cares? This is sports. All that matters happens between the white lines. Listen, this is where I really get crusty on the Guillen story: In all these comments, it's sort of taken for granted that Guillen has been fine and productive on the ..."