Letters to the Editor
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Published Letters: 652 Editor's Choice: 11
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Actually
[Read the article: King Kaufman's Sports Daily]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]King wrote:
"How would that work? If Bonds didn't hit those home runs, did the pitcher not give them up? What about the runners who scored ahead of him? Did they score? Do the runs count in the games or do we change winners and losers?"
In a word, Yes.
If the league was serious about all this stuff then they should do precisely that...blow the whole damn thing up. Find out when exactly he started taking them (how? I dunno) and go back over ever single solitary game he played in and strike his output from the records...replace it with whatever a Replacement Player (league average) for wherever he batted in the order for that year would've...or just record for all posterity what the game would've turned out to be if he hadn't played (kind of like an asterisk...keep the real result but also show the game results if he was stricken from the game. Let the mess this causes as a reminder of the mess we made of baseball in the 1990s - 2000s.
Of course that would imply that the league wanted to fix this, or that they weren't complicit in this whole affair. Of course they were/are. I hesitate to say Bonds was "used"...but MLB certainly knew what was going on and turned a blind eye - Bonds , McGwire Sosa et al sure did their part towards MLB making $6 bllion in profits last year.
You know, the more I think about this, the more it takes on the appearance of a Greek Tragedy.
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done and done
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]This battle was fought, and won, in Toronto (Ontario altogether?) like 15 years ago.
it's really no biggie.
and in all those years I've seen precisely one woman topless in the city - a particularly enterprising squeegee kid...the reaction I saw was amusement, nothing more.
man, the more I read this blog, the happier I am I live in Canada :)
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Hey WES
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]I don't know if you're onto anything there with your innuendo, but it reminded me of something I was thinking about over the summer (right around Bonds breaking The Record That Shall Not Be Broken).
Wouldn't it be an amazing PR move, as well as a stupendously great bargaining chip for A-Rod, or any elite hitter for that matter, to make a big deal of taking a voluntary blood test, and keeping it in storage...so they can test it with whatever tests they come up with in the future to find HGH or whatever?
It would be like saying "I'm 100% clean, You never have to worry about me tainting The Game like Mr. Bonds over there...How much money is that worth to ya? Wouldn't you like me, the undisputed Home Run Champion of all-time to be on your team when I do it?"
I'm sure the Player's Union would have a problem with that though - not to mention it probably messes around with the whole concept of innocent until proven guilty.
But still, can you imagine the press? It would be pretty cool.
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re: "kickyball"
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]uh, it prolly has something to do with the fact that we're talking MLS here...that why it's so quiet.
How many postings you think we'd get if King wrote a whole column on the Arena League final? About the same I'd reckon.
now if he wrote about England losing to Croatia and Coach McLaren getting fired...well, that's a whole other bag of apples
cheers
p.s. I actually quite enjoy MLS - Toronto FC games are a grand time...if only the league would do something about the bush league names half the teams have. New York Red Bulls?! C'mon!
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CFL
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]I'm not so sure the whole talent-level in the CFL vs NFL argument is water-tight. Granted the overall talent of NFL players is higher...but there seems to be a different skill set required for the CFL. I mean try using a lead-footed pocket quarterback in the CFL and see how long that lasts :)
The bigger field and the fewer downs pretty much forces you to have a mobile quarterback (my favourite kind incidentally)
but I like fournier's point about thinking of those players as still elite...remember a few years back when Andre Rison came to Toronto? Granted he was too old for the NFL, but it wasn't like he just waltzed in and set the league on fire. If I remember, he didn't even line up in the playoffs that year, he became kind of a player/coach for the Receivers.
Also, Rickey Williams (when healthy) didn't destroy the league either.
I guess what I'm trying to say is that success in one league does not presuppose success in the other...which suggests that plain ol' talent isn't enough..there's specific skills required for our peculiar, eccentric brand of football.
I've never really had a problem with the single point thing...I like the idea of every kick being a live ball.
(now if only someone could explain to me the rationale behind teams "conceding the safety" a ridiculous amount...)
p.s. GO RIDERS!! Make Hank Yarbo Proud!