My wife was recently disturbed by a relatively average fact: Boston Red Sox second baseman Alex Cora and Chicago White Sox third base coach Joey Cora are brothers.

This should not have been an overly shocking discovery.  Given the age difference between the two, however, we kinda always assumed that they were nephew and uncle.  It just made sense.  My wife, in fact, created a rallying cry for every time she heard Alex's name: "UNCLE JOEY!" 

Unfortunately, this gleeful exclamation was rendered inaccurate by a visit to retrosheet.org (I know this is twice in four postings that I've mentioned Retrosheet, but the continued praise is deserved; this web site makes research almost criminally easy), which tells us of the true relationship between the two.  It was disappointing.

Ever the trooper, my better half insists that this new information means nothing -- she will continue to salute Alex Cora with "UNCLE JOEY" whenever he is referenced in her presence.  I think they call this the denial phase.