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Crime and punishment

By Jim Baker
Special to Page 2

Tuesday, June 6, 2006

The assignment: spend a week watching the last-place Kansas City Royals on television and document what I saw. Two questions, no doubt, immediately come to mind: Why does this assignment exist and why did I get it? You've seen those ads for ESPN phones, right? You know: the ones in which the guy is trying to break in as an anchor and is stalking various personnel in the parking lot of ESPN headquarters. That was not filmed in Hollywood, folks -- that's what it really looks like in Bristol. In o ...

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