Chipper enables Rocker victimhood

In his new book, Chipper writes that former teammate John Rocker was “exploited” by writer Jeff Pearlman in his infamous SI profile. That’s just silly. Rocker was a grown man who knew he was speaking to a reporter. No one forced him into being a racist Neanderthal.

Chipper, responding on Twitter to Pearlman, asked if he let Rocker or any of his reps proofread the article. He should know better. As Pearlman states, journalists never allow the subjects of an article to read it before it’s printed.

Equally irksome is Chipper’s claim that he would read profiles before they ran; that publications would permit such a thing. I worked at SI—never allowed. I worked for ESPN.com—never allowed. I write…