Letters to the Editor
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Published Letters: 12 Editor's Choice: 2
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Joey T
[Read the article: King Kaufman's Sports Daily]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I think technically you could put Joe Theisman in 11th place behind Ron Jaworski because his winning percentage is actually .56383 because he's so graciously recused himself from picking on games where he's announcing. I think technically he's an idiot for thinking he has any journalistic integrity to protect in the first place. I would personally much prefer that he go ahead and pick all the games and recuse himself from announcing, but so far he hasn't gone that route.
By the same token, an alternative method of calculating Buster's place among the prognosticators would be to excuse him from flipping on all games where the spread is greater than 6 points. Assuming 3 games per week, that would give him a .592593 winning percentage and put him in 9th place about five games back from you.
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Rumsfeld Logic Continued
[Read the article: Rumsfeld: Some deaths count more than others]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Their next 'logical' argument, which I'm almost sure has already been thought of, is that with the number of traffic accidents that occur on U.S. roads, the health risks caused by the abysmal state of the American diet, etc., one could figure that at least a quarter of those soldiers killed or injured in action would have been killed or injured had they not been deployed to Iraq. Therefore there are only about 1100 soldiers who have died in combat who wouldn't likely have died by this time anyway. And hell, we're all going to die someday, so it's all just a wash.
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Duncan left the bench area too
[Read the article: King Kaufman's Sports Daily]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Tim Duncan and Bruce Bowen also left the bench area, but ESPN reported that Jackson responded "-- while conceding that Duncan 'should not have been on the playing court' -- said that the league determined there was 'no cause for the suspension rule' to be applied because the Elson-Jones tangle was not deemed to be an altercation." Introducing this line of logic, Stoudemire and Diaw should only be suspended if they were reacting to Bell's instigation of an altercation, rather than the initial hit on Nash, which was deducing from Jackson's response, not an altercation. Clearly, they rose out of their seats immmediately after Nash was decked and were already corraled by the time Bell altercated with Horry.
This is a comically inconsistant application of the rules. If I were a Sun's fan, I think I'd be pulling out my hair.
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So this is what Letters is like on a low page-count day
[Read the article: King Kaufman's Sports Daily]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Can I still loathe Gary Bettman and the NHL brass, while still embracing my nichetude?
I wasn't as irritated with NBC about the switchover as I was with the ones who signed the TV contract. (although having Bob Costas casually leaning on a bench while talking about a 'very special moment/horse/jockey etc.' seemed like salt in the wound)
Bettman talks so much about how the NHL gets better treatment with Versus/NBC than they ever did with ESPN/ABC. I hope for the sake of all things hockey that he sees he may have been mistaken. But I'm not holding my breath.
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Not really a broken rule
[Read the article: King Kaufman's Sports Daily]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Other than the "attempt to injure" rule, which is supposed to be a match penalty and doesn't explicitly include "deliberately shooting the puck at an opponent during a time of the game when it does not make sense to do so" in the list of relevant infractions, he didn't really break a rule. And I doubt he'll be suspended with his Canadian, Eastern Conference team down 3-1. I bet if the Ducks had lost game 4, they would be more more pressure to suspend Alfredsson as a sort of evening the playing field resulting from Pronger's questionable suspension.
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You probably meant Spurs in Six...
[Read the article: King Kaufman's Sports Daily]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]But I think this is a good way to always be correct on preditions... If the Spurs win, you just admit that it was a typo, if the Cavs win, you say that you subconsciously knew who was going to win. It's win-win.
Also, everything happens faster on skates.
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Stanley's Cup in PDT
[Read the article: King Kaufman's Sports Daily]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Vancouver and Seattle won the Stanley Cup as the Pacific Coast Hockey Association representatives over the National Hockey Association representatives Ottawa and Montreal respectively. The NHL didn't start until a year after Seattle won the cup. So Anaheim is the first Pacific Time Zone based NHL team to hoist the Stanley Cup.
Interestingly enough, the Cup was raised once before in the Pacific Time Zone when the New York Islanders beat the Vancouver Canucks in four games (the fourth game was in Vancouver).
There's got to be some way to better spend my time.
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Sports from the West Coast
[Read the article: King Kaufman's Sports Daily]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It must be a sportswriter's dream. Three games of football done by 9:00, and decent bedtime after overtime in Stanley Cup playoffs, and Buster and his little sister won't have to stay up past their bedtimes to watch Jeanne Zelasko spin her wonderful webs of similie laden segues. I can't wait to join you!
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What about Cashman?
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]I'm confused about why nobody's mentioning Brian Cashman and 'the chopping block' in the same sentence today. Did I miss his resignation at some point this season? I mean I hate the Yankees as much as everyone else, but Torre has done pretty well with the teams he's been given. When Chien-ming Wang is your ace at 19-7 with an ERA of 3.70 and you bring in a 45 year old pitcher at $22M to go 6-6, you might have decision making problems beyond the leathery looking guy in your dugout.
Good lord, Giambi got $25.5M this year to hit .236 and smash a whopping 14 homers.
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Thompson pulls a W?
[Read the article: What you missed while watching "Oprah"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I listened to Thompson this morning, and my first thought was that his staff must be talking in his ear (like W's 'bullet proof vest' in 2004). Only he hadn't rehearsed enough with an ear-piece, hence the pauses and radical position shifts mid-sentence.
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Shouldn't it be "...two Americas can become one..."
[Read the article: Obama releases statement on Edwards' exit]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]...not two Americans can become one. I'm not sure I'm ready for the societal implications of what Obama is suggesting as it's written.