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Update: The sidebar referred to below was removed from the ESPN website late Wednesday evening.
Update 2: ESPN and Peter Gammons address the issue.
In a sidebar to Peter Gammons' ESPN.com column today on the Dodgers, the same text that was published in a previous day's Los Angeles Times article - text that includes but is not limited to quotes - appears.
I'm not making any accusations - just pointing out the similarity. I have made inquiries to the Times and ESPN.com to determine if this is, as may be likely, just an editing or publication error.
The following passage appeared Tuesday in Steve Henson's feature in the Times on Milton Bradley.
Former Cleveland teammate and close friend C.C. Sabathia had a candid discussion with Bradley on Super Bowl Sunday, saying he was still angry because Bradley's behavior prompted the trade to the Dodgers before last season.
The final incident in Bradley's tumultuous 2 1/2 years in Cleveland came at the end of spring training when Manager Eric Wedge thought Bradley did not run out a pop-up.
"C.C. is like my brother and when he said, 'You left me and I'm still upset,' that was real," Bradley said. "We wanted to turn Cleveland into a powerhouse, and I see now that my actions were wrong and hurt people."
When the Dodgers traveled from Vero Beach, Fla., to Winter Haven to play the Indians in spring training, Bradley made sure he was one of the few regulars to make the two-hour bus ride.
"By trading me they made a big statement about the direction the organization was going," he said. "I understand they had to do it. I needed to go to Winter Haven to talk to some people. I needed to go for closure."
The following passage appears today in Gammons' sidebar on Bradley:
Milton Bradley and close friend C.C. Sabathia had a candid discussion about Bradley on Super Bowl Sunday.
Bradley said Sabathia was still angry because Bradley's behavior prompted the trade to the Dodgers before last season. "C.C. is like my brother and when he said, 'You left me and I'm still upset,' that was real," Bradley said. "We wanted to turn Cleveland into a powerhouse, and I see now that my actions were wrong and hurt people."
When the Dodgers traveled from Vero Beach, Fla., to Winter Haven to play the Indians in spring training, Bradley made sure he was one of the few regulars to make the two-hour bus ride.
"By trading me they made a big statement about the direction the organization was going," he said. "I understand they had to do it. I needed to go to Winter Haven to talk to some people. I needed to go for closure."
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Jon, I'm not sure exactly what you mean by this. As in, perhaps Gammons meant to credit the Times but didn't? That's the only possible excuse I can think of. (Unless ESPN is paying for the L.A. Times news service, in which case I guess they can do what they want with the copy.)
They'd still have to insert the source, for copyright purposes. You follow that when you write your books correct?
Gammons, as you can tell from his typos and grammar, doesn't get a lot of editing, but that's the norm with the "star" columnists.
Did DePodesta say anything interesting on AM710 this afternoon?
I blame Gammons and/or the chimpanzee who edits him -- and I mean that literally, as no human could keep a job with that shoddy a performance.
IIRC, Karros never made the All Star team either.
Do keep us posted on whether you get an explanation...I'd love to hear how this happened...
http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/gammons/story?id=2037158
I also don't think he is that stupid to blatantly plagiarize something written in a widely published newspaper.
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