Now, I don't expect anyone outside New York to care about the Yankees or Boomer Wells or Clemens or even baseball. This is hardly the first time in sports that a team has dumped a star, or a star a team. In the NBA, Shaquille O'Neal walked out on the Orlando Magic, and the New York Knicks said thanks to John Starks and Charles Oakley for years of excellence by trading them for a known felon. In hockey, the Great Wayne Gretsky has taken his greatness from place to place. It's the way of the world, but it's the way of the world I'm complaining about.
Loyalty counts for nothing anymore.
Well, it counts for a little. When the delightful Linda Tripp betrayed Monica, she was properly thought reprehensible. And when Hillary stood by her man-child, she was properly thought admirable. But these were low-pulse responses, fleeting and not deeply felt. Loyalty has simply vanished as an appreciated virtue.