Say It Ain't So: Dan Duquette Traded World Series Tickets For Favors

If there is one thing you'll never convince me of, it's that the mayors of large cities in America would ever do anything borderline unethical. Like, for example: former Red Sox GM Dan Duquette and a former Pittsfield mayor would never have lent a favor to each other. Why, never! Never, say, sold a pair of World Series tickets for face value when the rest of the public was paying $2,000 for them (via SbB):

Duquette told investigators that he sold Ruberto the two tickets for $190 each because he wanted his minor league team, the Berkshire Dukes, to play at a city park, according to a statement made public today by the State Ethics Commission. "By selling the World Series tickets to Ruberto at face value, where the general public could only obtain such tickets at prices more than $50 over face value, Duquette provided something of substantial value to Ruberto for or because of official acts to be performed by Ruberto as mayor," the statement says.

Sheesh. That sounds terrible. Next thing you know, metropolitan tax dollars will be misappropriated and pilfered through corrupt local representatives, and baseball players will start using steroids. Our republic is doomed.