From Kalle Oakes, sports writer for the Lewiston Sun Journal, posted on FB, “It’s the people who don’t like Tony because they might have seen him in an interview where he came across as an a-hole. I get it. If you’re in the public eye and you’re not universally popular and you don’t live a perfect life, people are going to jump all over any reason to destroy your name. It comes with the territory. Someday someone is going to die in a hockey fight or from getting hit in the head with a 98 mph fastball and we’re going to have this same silly discussion. It’s a part of the game gone horribly, horribly wrong. And if you’re not really immersed in the game, it is hard to understand.”