The incumbent Dodgers first baseman causes a daylight freeway accident, exhibits very strange behavior in front of numerous witnesses, is arrested and taken to a hospital, has to be restrained, and the case is referred to the City Attorney — and no one in Los Angeles reports it for three weeks? The team is able to claim it learned of the accident via anonymous phone call, much later? Even the janitors at the New York Post and NY Daily News are probably having a good laugh about La-La-Land and the "citizen journalism" power of Twitter and cellphone cameras.
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