The pitch tipping is a legitimate issue. And except for the anonymous quotes in Robert's book she has nothing. ARod was supposedly tipping pitches so other players would do the same for him. Who were these players who were then also pitch tipping to ARod. Did Roberts ask who they were to or make any attempt to find out? If not why not? If the anonymous player or players can't say who ARod was tipping to that makes what they say suspect. Why didn't the anonymous player tell the pitcher whose pitches were being tipped. Did Roberts ask who the pitcher or pitchers were, did the player tell them and if not why not? If the anonymous player was "outraged" about the pitch tipping why didn't they tell the manager or pitching coach or at least the pticher. If they said they told the pitcher Roberts could follow up and see if that was true. If they told nobody that makes it suspect. In fact, from exerpt in SI it appears the anonymous player says he warned ARod he was being too obvious. That doesn't sound real "outraged" does it. It appears Roberts didn't do the minimum that a journalist should do to check a story, or to put it in context at least by saying the players would not tell her who ARod was tipping. And yes, I'm tired of the story, but the pitch tipping needs to be checked out and right now there are a lot of unanswered questions and holes in Roberts accusations.