Letters to the Editor
Published Letters: 468 Editor's Choice: 25
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$25 million for 7 (on average) wins...
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]And let's not forget, Clemens won't be able to get anywhere near 100 pitches per game until August. So much for giving the relief staff some help!
This has nothing to do with winning and everything to do with selling seats and advertising. Even a crappy Yankee team can't hold the average NY fan's interest for long. I know, let's throw some star power out there, announce it during a game over the loudspeaker!!! Keith Olbermann (who was apparently at the game) had the best comment: he thought they were going to announce that Steinbrenner had sold the team!!! NY should be so lucky!
By the way, thanks for taking a prime example of major Yankee/Steinbrenner assholery and turn it into a negative on the Red Sox via a guy who writes for the Rhode Island press. Yea, King: as goes Providence, so goes the Red Sox Nation! You couldn't even find a Boston paper who will rant about this? Do you think that the common Bostoner has any less of a contentious relationship with their sports press than any other city?
The subtext, of course, being that Red Sox fans are assholes by proximity to their local sportswriters. You should know better and I think you're letting this "Red Sox are the new Yankees" meme get the better of you. Uhhhh, it was the friggin' Yanks who paid way more than market value for a 44-year-old pitcher, not the Sox...
Sad, dude. I'd rather hear about hockey.
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Momma, don't let your babies...
[Read the article: College girls gone wild (and proud of it)]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]...grow up to be sorority girls!
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What would have been a better conclusion for Fisher to draw...
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]If he was poor his daughter would probably no longer be with us. That's not because "God" hated her, its because of the piss-poor healthcare situation in this country.
Funny how rich people get lucky (or better treatment) and chaulk it up to "God", not realizing that poor people who believe in "God" just as much as them, never seem to be on the receiving end of "God's" graces. It's even less forgivable for sports millionaires, most of whom come from humble beginnings.
But I suppose that was "God" singling them out to be ballplayers (as opposed to winning the DNA lottery). Lucky twice, Mr. Fisher? Or blessed twice?
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Oh Julian...(sigh)
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]What do you think would have a more profound effect on the uninsured children of the country: set about curing one disease or change the system so that all kids, regardless of ailment, can get the excellent healthcare options open to Fisher's offspring? My beef (for the most part) is with Fisher's scope, not his heart.
BTW, alot of diseases are incurable. I would argue (despite the Repub talking points to the contrary) that our healthcare system isn't.
Hope I didn't ruin your day, Jules.
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I'm sorry, but...
[Read the article: Finale wrap-up: "The King of Queens"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Kevin James is not funny. In any setting. He even managed to be unfunny at Jerry Stiller's Roast, a venue where you can say anything!
Remini is cute (she was cuter in "Saved by the Bell"), but that's not enough to justify 8 years of berating Kevin James. I, for one, will not be happy when the stupid, helpless husband and brilliant-but-loving-stupid-guy wife formula is dead and buried. No one's life is that pat or cliché. If they were a real-life couple, they would have divorced in season 3!
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RE: GullyFoyle
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]And do you believe everything Bush says when he steps up to a mic?
I'm sure that once Stoudemire and Diaw saw that there was no way to appeal their suspensions (what's up with that) and that any furthur negative comments could possibly result in fines, they towed the line and sucked it up. They're better men than the commish, that's for sure.
BTW, over the past few days I've noticed very little commentary on how instrumental TNT and ESPN were in making sure that everyone's attention was appropriately drawn to the 18" over the imaginary line the Suns were. I even watched SportsCenter the night it happened and the co-anchor even said something to the effect "Something the league office might want to look at" while "spotlighting" their feet in a slow motion replay.
Now given ESPN's Barry Bonds "Chasing Aaron" bullshit (leaving other game broadcasts to peek in on his at-bats), isn't ESPN's arbitrary highlight of only some atheletes' wrongdoings a bit disengenuous? And totally NOT THEIR JOB!!!
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Yet another answer...
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]And would those not giving 2 shits about whether anyone likes hockey or not be the same people who complain every day about hockey's non-inclusion in King's columns.
In other words, what "What's Hockey?" guy is trying to tell you is that we don't give two shits about your two shits that you don't give. Get it?
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Absolutely Buffalonian!
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]We are a great community, us King readers...
That being said, having spent 2 years of higher education in Michigan (and accumulating many friends from the area) I am pulling for Detroit, despite their reputation as the Yankees of the NHL.
Although, sorry (or should that be soory) to you Sabre fans, in leiu of a Detroit victory, I would love to see the cup make a triumphant return to Canada where, and let's be honest, it belongs.
And let's have a debate about moving the whole league back above the snow line, eh?
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Just for the record...
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]If you've been following King since his column started (what was that? 2002? 2001? My memory is chemically blurred...), he can be quite the hockey fan and has typed some interesting columns on the NHL: Just to link to a few...
http://www.salon.com/news/sports/col/kaufman/2002/06/04/nhl_finals/index.html
http://www.salon.com/news/sports/col/kaufman/2004/04/20/tuesday/index.html
http://www.salon.com/news/sports/col/kaufman/2005/02/16/wednesday/index.html
But I think that King suffering a bit of buyer's remorse with the cancelled season and less-than-stellar-comeback (OLN & NBC? Are you kidding?). But who hasn't? The NHL should condsider themselves damn lucky that they have ANY fans anymore after that crap. I'm pretty sure King will probably comment sooner or later on the NHL playoffs because I'm pretty sure he's still a fan...