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Perhaps I'm missing something, but the problem is not primarily about sex, lying, or criminality. It really comes down to judgement. 

Commissioner Adams engaged in behavior with someone who he recognized could be misinterpreted, twisted, used for political purposes. It might have even been criminal, if it occurred before Mr. Breedlove was of age legally. Mr. Adams clearly recognized some danger, and reacted very aggressively to another gay candidate's comments,

Among Mr. Adams' campaign positions was he was a canny politician, who understood how things worked, and could get things done. Se have witnessed an endless string of politicians getting their tails caught in the ringer over a wide variety of transgressions, including  but not limited to illicit sexual situations, since 1971.  The notion he couldn't foresee this becoming, at the least. the huge distraction from his agenda,  either suggest he believed he could get away with lying (please review Pres. Clinton or Nixon's success with that), or that he is not the wily politician he implied he was.

He was not a victim in this matter. I do not dispute as a young gay man, he had to protect himself. But his protection in this matter would have been to repel Mr. Breedlove's advances (if that is what happpened), or to reject his own inclinations. He was involved with another man who was clearly of age, and no one is suggesting he had to lie about that. Good judgement would have been to never put himself and his candidacy at risk for what was essentially a fling.

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One of the standbys in our house every year is "spring training starts next week". My son has been in little league every year he was eligible, and we have gone to see the Portland Beavers since their opening day when they returned to town.

We moved here from the Bay area in 1996, and are A's fans instead of Mariners.

I have not been impressed that Portland is currently a baseball town given the turn out at Beaver's games. Part of this I lay on the Oregonian; since moving here, it has been frustrating to get baseball coverage in our state paper. Baseball coverage usually starts somewhere around page 6, wedged in around local hockey or the high school wrestling results. Half of the coverage is about whether Clemens or Bonds has been caught with their pants down.

I have never been in any other town the the local paper relegated baseball to so little or buried reporting. Salt Lake, Austin, New Orleans, Las Vegas, you name any other city of vaguely comparable size without a major league team, and their coverage starts page 1 or 2, with all the scores from the previous day's games. While there has been some improvement the last year of two, but the Oregonian gives more and more prominent space to Serena Williams' outfits, the clubs Tiger is using, how long a losing streak some college team in Nebraska than America's pastime gets. I've actually measured column inches to check that I'm not just miffed my favorite sport is being short changed, and there have been plenty of times the Lincoln tennis team got more space than baseball coverage at all levels.

When the Oregonian really commits to baseball, we might get real turnouts for baseball--until then, anyone who thinks we're getting a major league team, call me about buying a bridge.

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