Letters to the Editor
Published Letters: 468 Editor's Choice: 25
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What?!? No NBA coverage?!?!?!
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]I've been avoiding all other sports outlets for the last 4 days so I can hear all about how awesome (and consequently, not Nowitski-ish) LeBron James is. Will he look that awesome against the Spurs? Or is the fact that no one else on the Cavs is a true scoring threat going to doom them in the end? King, I depend on you for my sports knowledge/opinions, please don't let me down. Tell me what I think!!!
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RE: Add to "people who deserve to win it" list in recent years: Jerome Bettis. You know, I hate that storyline too, but it seems to work, at times. Plus its sort of nice to see professional atheletes caring about something other than themselves, at least as a motivational tool (which is all that "win one for the gipper" crap is anyway).
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Dennis...
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]"If this was truly the perfect ending for the series, then answer this:
If it had ended any other way - Tony dying, Tony ratting, Tony moving to Ohio and opening up a fireworks stand - how many people would be saying, 'Gosh, what a disappointing ending. I was hoping it would just sort of end, with them eating onion rings in a diner and staring at each other'?"
I do not accept the premise of your question. They weren't just "eating onion rings in a diner and staring at each other". If you think that's all that was happening than you probably haven't been with this show from the beginning and haven't really gotten any of it that you have watched. No, this is not being elitist, this is just a simple understanding of the hundreds to thousands of layers that make up your typical human psyche.
Which of course was what The Sopranos was really about, wasn't it: Tony as everyman. Except he just had a more exciting job than Willy Loman.
And, to answer your question, yes, I would have been dissapointed with a bloodbath (or any other typical mobster) ending. Easy resolution is not something that David Chase does and I don't expect him to change his stripes just to satisfy you.
Although I do like your Fireworks stand in Ohio (where they are mostly illegal) theory.
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Good theory gavini...
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]But why would Chase, who has gone out of his way to not be cliché, give us the most cliché of endings: the dream sequence. I mean, really? Friggin' "Newhart" used it.
I can appreciate your weather observations but anyone who's encountered a New England autumn can tell you from day-to-day (especially in late Sept. to early Oct.) it can be sunning-yourself weather one day and snowing the next. That's not a dream sequence, that's just the weather...
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Two things that are diametrically opposed to each other...
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]Solid basketball skills (good ball-handling, solid jump-shooting, moving your feet on defense, etc.) and up-tempo, high scoring (lots of dunks, one pass per possesion, fast breaks).
There will always someone who will complain about one of these in reference to the NBA finals (and playoffs in general). They usually aren't NBA fans and haven't watched a game in its entirety for seasons at a time, so I'm at a loss as to why the game should be tailored to fit their concerns (obviously, King is an exception). I'm cursed in that I love basketball as a game but my team (Celtics) haven't done crap for decades. So I watch anyway despite having no skin in the game.
Basically, the NBA is damned if they do and damned if they don't. Count me in with the previous poster who thinks that high-scoring games can be just as boring as low-scoring, defensive battles.
Then again, I've found almost every SuperBowl in the last 8 years that didn't feature the Pats pretty darn boring, too (the Rams/Titans affair being a lone standout in my memory). Eye of the beholder, and all.
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Entourage took up 2 cars?
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]I've never really understood the purpose of an entourage. Seems like all you need is 3 guys: 1 for security, 1 to buy the drugs, and 1 to provide the urine sample. OK, maybe 2 for security. I mean, how many "yes" men do you really need? I'm sure plenty of fawning can be "outsourced" to the waitstaff of whatever venue you happen to be in.
But if your entourage can't fit into 1 Escalade, how much of a service are the guys in the 2nd SUV (the one you're not in) really providing? Other than shooting at passing cars?
Second question: How's a guy who's not getting paid for a year afford 2 SUV's worth of an entourage?