Harry Kalas, Jack Buck, Your Local Newspaper And The Death Of Institutions

Nick Adenhart. Like everyone, I was as saddened by the tragic death of the Angels starter as you can be by the death of someone whom you've never met and had no strong opinions about. (Like any baseball-obsessed son, the stuff about his dad just wrecked me.) But life goes on, as it must, because if it didn't, this column would be a lot shorter. More specifically: Fantasy baseball goes on, and considering fantasy baseball is the ultimate dispassionate, players-are-not-human activity, I found it fascinating to see how fantasy owners handled Adenhart over the weekend. I'm not sure I'm getting the straight scoop, though: ESPN doesn't list Adenhart among its most dropped players, nor does CBS Sportsline (which isn't called Sportsline anymore, yet I'll always refer to it that way) and Fantasy Baseball Geeks doesn't mention him either. Am I an asshole for waiving him on Friday? I don't think waiving Nick Adenhart from my fantasy team is any more of an insult to him personally than waiving Jose Guillen is to him. I probably shouldn't be writing this.