Considering that their owner is a frequent user of Twitter, of course the Boston Red Sox used it to solicit votes for their players for the All-Star game. Not only are the Red Sox one of the best teams in the American League, if not the best, but they are also very good at promoting their players and getting fans to vote for them.

Except for Kevin Youkilis’s last-minute loss to Mark Teixeira of the Yankees in their fierce back-and-forth competition for first base, the Red Sox showed themselves to be resourceful and dynamic in pushing their All-Star candidates.

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On one hand, there is nothing confusing about the Pittsburgh Pirates. They are a losing team and have been a losing team for more than a decade and a half. In fact, they are on the brink of breaking a major league record with their 17th consecutive losing season.

On the other, they are one of the most confounding teams in the majors. They trade players before they have to sign them to expensive contracts, they trade players after they sign them to mildly expensive contracts and they trade players whose contracts are still under their control.

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When the two San Francisco Chronicle reporters who covered the Balco case published grand jury testimony of Barry Bonds and other players, they were acting within proper journalistic bounds. Prosecutors and defense lawyers are not permitted to disclose grand jury testimony, but reporters are not bound by that restriction.

Thus Mark Fainaru-Wada and Lance Williams violated no laws or standards of ethics in reporting the testimony, but the defense lawyer who allowed Fainaru-Wada to review the transcripts, Troy Ellerman, wound up being sentenced to two and a half years in prison after he admitted that he leaked the testimony.

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