That explains a lot. Silver has always wrote as if he thought of himself as another sports Voice of His Generation: humorless, self-important, anti-management, pro-jock, pro-agent/union, anti-fan. He's Dan LeBastard's brother from another mother. And now that he's been denied easier access, he actually has to work for his stories; and he despises our HC for throwing him off the gravy train while at the same time he was trashing its Conductor. Those who do actually work for their stories, I think BB respects; for those who don't, he has no use - just as he would, and should, for his players. Today's lazy, access-demanding, agenda-driven, personal-attacking, unfair & unbalanced "journalists" should be ashamed to call themselves that word. Shame, however, is something that is in short-to-zero supply in their glass houses.