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MILWAUKEE--Milwaukee Brewers second baseman Fernando Vina will appeal a two-game suspension for putting a finger in umpire Mike Winters' face while arguing balls and strikes...
...incident developed last Friday when Vina disputed a called third strike in a game in Pittsburgh...
...Winters] told me, 'I suppose you're going to say it's my fault,"' Vina told reporters before the Brewers' game last night with the Los Angeles Dodgers...
...didn't have to say that," Vina said. "That charged me up, I was just going to walk away...
...obviously too small to hold these two myth-destined figures, and Rai decides to get out as well. ("Disorientation: loss of the East," as he notes several times.) But this exodus considerably saps the narrative vigor of Rushdie's novel. On their arc toward pop immortality, Ormus and Vina must inevitably pass through London in the mid-'60s and Manhattan in the '70s, already over-storied places and times about which Rai (and Rushdie) can find little new or interesting to add. When fictionalized versions of Rudolf Nureyev and Andy Warhol start popping up, an inspired fiction dwindles toward gossip...