“To try to paint the much admired, much appreciated, down to earth Ted Leonsis as a desperate phony is a pretty lame way to try and boost your credibility.”

Perhaps, but if the readers of the Fairfax Times are baffled as to why the paper would choose to have an avowed Pittsburgh fan musing about DC’s hockey team, they should realize it could be worse. They could be listening to a New York sports radio program co-hosted by a hopeless San Francisco Giants apologist.