"Some guy's being aggressive with a woman, and she says no, and he keeps on doing it. Well, you know what's going to happen. No is no in anything, when it comes to sexual or you know, whatever it is. No is no. And I'm sure Kenny [Rogers] said, 'Hey, get [the camera] out of my face, don't do it.' But no, they want the big story, they want the scoop, you know?"

	Rangers left-hander Kenny Rogers shoved two cameramen on June 29, sending one to the hospital in a videotaped tirade. AP/KTVT
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Wow. I don't even know where to begin. I've always told my kids not to call someone stupid, but it's the only word I could think of when I read that Red Sox pitcher David Wells, while blabbering to Rhode Island radio station WSKO on Friday, compared Kenny Rogers' attack of a cameraman who was doing his job with a sexual assault by trotting out the no-means-no analogy.

Of course, no means no when it comes to an encounter between a man and woman. But if the Rangers pitcher had assaulted a woman on video tape and not a cameraman who was just doing his job, we wouldn't even be having this discussion. Rogers likely would be behind bars, protesters would have surrounded Ameriquest Field, and baseball would have tossed him out of the game so far beyond indefinitely, we'd be talking about whether Rogers would ever again wear a major league uniform rather than whether he made the right call in deciding to pitch in Tuesday's All-Star Game.

Wells' comments were inappropriate and demeaning. (That combination equals stupid.) The severity of sexual assault should not be diminished by equating it to an insipid testosterone tantrum perpetrated against another guy who, while seriously hurt during the incident, was able to talk about it on national television the next day. Sexual assault is forever. I'm sure Larry Rodriguez of KDFW-TV was stunned by the attack, but his wounds will heal.

As for Rogers, I'm not sure what he was thinking when he announced on Sunday that he will pitch in the midsummer exhibition. "I'm going because I was voted in by the players and I earned it," he told the Dallas Morning News. Rogers, a 40-year-old veteran who has pitched for five teams in 16 seasons, was voted to the American League All-Star team by his fellow players, a selection (the third of his career) that was announced two days following the assault. Then the cop-outs began.

Baseball suspended him for 20 games and fined him $50,000 (Rogers will earn $3,338,758 this season; 50G is his kids' lunch money.) But Rogers exercised his right to challenge the suspension and fine, which allowed him to continue playing until a hearing on the penalty is held. Conveniently for all, no hearing has been scheduled to occur before the July 12 game. Thus Rogers remained eligible to pitch.