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I'm sorry I'm late.

I woke up early enough, 6:30 a.m. PST, made coffee, sliced the orange into six sections, then opened the front door.

My delivery system arrived, a world wrapped in blue plastic. I know it's old fashioned but I really enjoy it, especially on Sunday.

The news is so unbelievable it's like everything that had started happening just stopped, and became everything that wasn't happening. 

A-Rod was exiled to a minor-league franchise in Cairo, Egypt in what was termed by Major League Baseball as a 'rehabilitation assignment'. The Pope admitted he was homosexual in an exclusive interview with Anderson Cooper of CNN. Barack Obama broke 90 on an exclusive members-only golf course in Cape Cod, Mass. In the "Sunday Styles" section the celebrations of same-sex marriages outnumbered the celebrations of opposite-sex marriages. An opera featuring Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Antonin Scalia will debut this season at The Met.

It wasn't until 9:15 a.m. that I came to the end of the remarkable story by Barry Bearak, "The Jockey"  (Sports Sunday, p.8) about Russell Baze, the winningest jockey in American history who rides out of Golden Gate Fields across the bay near Berkeley.

It's such a great story that I believe every word.