He is my friend and so I will protect him, because it would not be in his best interest — or the best interests of his clients, some of whom have their lives and their livelihoods attached to his overall well-being — that he has long only been partially invested in their interests.
“I’m not saying I’m any better or worse at my job from November through March,” my friend — let’s call him Cleon Kranepool — was saying the other night, late, after the Mets had lost in extras to the Marlins and the Nationals had won in extras over the Braves, and poor Cleon sounded like he was in the middle stages of cardiac arrest.