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Raissman: Networks give love to Alex Rodriguez

The lines were strikingly similar. Both were spoken while the camera was on Alex Rodriguez.

“I think there’s a PED fatigue among fans,” Tom Verducci, working with Harold Reynolds and Joe Buck, said Saturday during FS1’s Red Sox-Yankees telecast. “It’s not why they come to the ballpark.”

Less than 24 hours later, Curt Schilling attempted to explain why Yankee fans have quickly gravitated back to A-Rod’s corner. “Part of it too is fatigue. That (Biogenesis/PED) story was fatiguing,” Schilling said early in ESPN’s telecast of the Sunday night series finale. “I think everyone is tired of it.