Letters to the Editor
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Published Letters: 43 Editor's Choice: 14
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whiny zillionaires
[Read the article: King Kaufman's Sports Daily]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]If a coach can get fined for bitching about truly crappy officiating after a game is over, it's absurd not to fine Thomas for statements and actions which were much more "unprofessional." Even if he was warning Melo out of the goodness of his black black heart, still, stay on your side of the court, man, and don't defend your players' thuggy tantrums. I think it's tacky and dumb to have kept everybody in at that point, but it's certainly not the very first time that's happened in the history of ever. If weird coaching were a viable excuse for throwing punches, well, there would be a lot of punching.
And as far as other sports go, John McEnroe's whining is posititvely iconic, golfers throw their clubs when they're annoyed, NFL players usually have something to say about penalties and frequently have something to say about the officiating in the postgame press conference, Barry Bonds has been bitching nonstop to anyone who'll listen for like three years. We're talking about people who make more money in three hours than I'll ever see in my entire life, for playing their favorite game no less, so it doesn't really surprise me that they'd act like petulant teenagers from time to time. I can't see how this is unique to this game or this league or just the world in general. People who've taken an entourage to the grocery store since they were 19 tend to be a little out of touch with how normal people behave. They acted like jackasses, and they got punished for it. Just like all the other players in all the other sports who act like jackasses.
This is one game out of however many hundreds of games just since the Pistons/Pacers, and only a handful of the people who actually played in the game in question. Let's not dismiss every player in the league as a whiny crybaby, or mourn the sorry state of the NBA. There are floppers, there are gloaters, there are whiners, and there are professionals. This too is pretty much true of humans in general.
Maybe they should go back to letting them whine a little to the refs during the game. It's easier to deal with a few "Meh! My pussy hurts cause I flopped to the ground and still didn't get the call!" tantrums than this fiasco.
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Good plan!
[Read the article: King Kaufman's Sports Daily]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Maybe you should move on to better things.
Yeah, we should leave this juvenile recreation behind and move on to other forms of entertainment, like film and literature, where there are no overpaid asshats anywhere, and everyone cares about me personally.
Or, even better, reading pages and pages of letters about stuff I think is dumb, and then telling everyone how dumb they are. I'm awesome.
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Jefferson's frozen assets
[Read the article: Dreaming of a white Christmas]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]As a lifelong resident of the state of Louisiana, I must point out that we have a long and glorious tradition of electing, and re-electing, crooks. As far as political scandals go, a few thousand bucks in a freezer barely even registers as corruption.
Maybe we just take for granted that they're all crooked. And especially in New Orleans, maybe there's some comfort in figuring you might as well hang on to the crook you know, rather than take your chances on a new one.
Otherwise, yeah. It's been kind of a weird year. Re-electing Jefferson, however, is pretty much business as usual.
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Nope. I still don't get it.
[Read the article: King Kaufman's Sports Daily]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Remember all those baseball players who totally didn't take any steroids at all? Or all those celebrities who have those hospital stays for "exhaustion" and who are totally not racist at all and are completely faithful and comitted and not getting a divorce? And also every single other coach who's been offered a job in the middle of the season and maybe doesn't want to talk about it while he's trying to do this other job he's still being paid to do? Do the press go home and cry in to their pillows every time somebody lies to them?
Most these denials or dirty filthy lies or whatever happened at press conferences which were ostensibly about a given football game. I think it's plenty reasonable to want journalists to ask questions about the game or the team rather than asking the same damn question over and over again, especially if you've made it clear that you don't want to talk about it until the season's over.
Hey, you know who else likes lying to the press, is pretty much the entire administration, as well as every elected official in the country. Habitually. So as a nation we can let that slide, but we manage to muster up all this vitriol for a damn coaching job. I mean, the whole column? And not even a mention of the Sugar Bowl?
If someone wants to give Nick Saban an obscene amount of money to do something he's really good at, and he doesn't want to announce it to the world while he still has a job coaching another team, I don't think he owes the press a damn thing. It's not like American journalism has established itself as a shining beacon of integrity. And even if it makes him an asshole, what, we're shocked that a zillionaire football coach is an asshole?
I only wish it were anywhere but Bama. LSU fans are going to have a rough time with that.