In your column discussing the financial troubles facing the Mets and Dodgers, you say that they “let their dirty laundry flail about on a clothesline that stretches from coast to coast.”. I write a blog about hanging clothes (http://hangingclothes.blogspot.com/ ) and I would like to clarify this point.
I understand that your image of a trans-continental clothesline is a metaphor. However, that is where it breaks down. Nobody hangs dirty laundry on a clothesline. There would be no point in hanging soiled apparel. Items hung on a clothesline are freshly laundered – clean and pristine.
While I can understand your issues with how some baseball teams manage their finances, I don't see the point in your disparaging the noble practice of hanging clean laundry on a clothesline. Why drag laundry hanging into the conversation only to equate it with the egregious practices that you detail?
Your voice is heard from a major platform. For a future column, please consider using imagery of clean laundry hanging from a clothesline in a positive light.
Thank you.
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