Letters to the Editor
rupertmonkey
Published Letters: 20
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Maz?
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]Hi King. Longtime reader, first time poster, as they say. Was Mazeroski really inducted "for his glove alone"? I never saw him play, but know him as the guy who hit the Greatest Home Run Ever. I'm a lifelong Pirates fan, so obviously my judgment is horribly impaired, but didn't the Most Amazing Dinger In The History Of The Game have a lot to do with it?
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grkent
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]It took me so long to complete the registration process and compose my first letter that I didn't see yours. You are obviously an eloquent and gracious person and, apparently, a lifelong Pirates fan. Any tips on retaining one's dignity?
I'm living in Los Angeles now and really loved your Vin Scully remembrance.
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The human spirit
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]I know, rationally, that in about 300 days the last vestige of hope for my beloved Bucs will once again be squeezed out of my soul. But now, right now, I'm feeling a little optimistic about next season. Ah, baseball...
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Curling!
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]Winnipeg's favorite sons, The Weakerthans, have a song about curling on their latest album. Best indie rock curling song ever! I would imagine.
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charles
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]Nothing I say should suggest I think there is parity in baseball. But if you don't think you can blame the Pirates ownership for the failures of the last decade and a half, your last name is either McClatchy or Nutting.
Your pal in despair, RM.
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I should be watching
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]...but I've made a lifestyle choice not to have cable, so I'm reading King instead. I have no legal rationale for thinking this, but baseball's antitrust exemption seems to indicate that its big games should be on free TV. The exemption implies that there is an overwhelming public interest in where the teams reside; teams moving around for purely financial reasons would be injurious to the citizenry. If we the public are assumed to have such a stake in the workings of Major League Baseball, then we should also have a right to watch its defining contests free gratis.
Go Rockies! Go Spiders! And then, um, Cleveland in seven. Not a prediction, just a wish.
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New Yorker
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]Did you read the profile of Boras in the latest (I think it's the latest, there's a stack in my bathroom) New Yorker? He seems incredibly inept at public relations while being very good at private negotiations. You'd think there'd be some overlap in the skill sets.
In the article, Arod, though not interviewed, seems not so bright. Johnny Damon, who was interviewed, seems also to be not very bright, but fine with that.
And, apropos of nothing, is Joe Torre going to be a Dodger? If he is, I think the Dodgers are destined for several more years of relative futility. I actually have nothing against Torre, apart from the Yankeeness, but I think the fact that the Dodgers would try to nab him so quickly is just further evidence of them not thinking clearly, or deeply, about their problems. "Joe Torre? He's famous, right? He won something didn't he? Let's get him."
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Adam
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]I can't really stand watching the Colts, so I was watching The Amazing Race and clicking back during commercials and whatnot. I was struck by a postgame interview with LT during which he kept referring to the Colts' kicker as "Adam." There are some NFL players habitually known by their first names, but is Vinatieri one of them? Are LT and AV (there are some NFL players habitually referred to by their initials, and I'm pretty sure Vinatieri isn't one of them) friends? Just curious.
Also, Steelers special teams suck. I was going to say that Ben (who is not usually referred to by only his first name, but by the sobriquet "Big Ben") is underrated. But that might change now, or soon, right? Can you be a great quarterback without being a great passer?
By the way, I know nothing about football.
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Western PA
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]There's still a lot of resentment in Pirates country about Bonds. Those folks started hating Barry way before the rest of the world did. But, yeah, he should do it, mend some fences. Maybe have a hot dog eating contest with Sid Bream.
And the Brecht link was hilarious.
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Third time's the charm
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]Bonds testified before a grand jury way back when, and they returned no indictment. Then a second grand jury was formed to determine if he lied to the first one. They returned no indictment. So a third grand jury has finally come through for the government. Can the state really just keep empaneling grand juries until it gets the results it wants? Isn't that kinda nuts, regardless of your opinion about Bonds?
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The grand juries
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]Bonds had immunity during hs initial testimony, so he certainly wasn't the target of that. I apologize for the contextless quotes, but here are excerpts from ESPN:
"That process began in early 2005, about a year after Bonds' testimony, as the conspiracy case against BALCO's Conte, Anderson and two other men was winding its way though the system. The government began to focus on bringing a perjury case against Bonds, and prosecutors' first witness was Kimberly Bell, Bonds' former girlfriend, who testified to the grand jury in March 2005 that Bonds had admitted he began using steroids in 1999, the San Francisco Chronicle previously reported."
Later:
"Even though Rains told Bonds to expect an indictment, Ryan instead decided to empanel a new grand jury, extending the case and dooming Anderson to more than another year in prison."
So while the first GJ merely "began to focus" on Bonds, the second was specifically targeted against him? Sounds fishy to me, but whatever. I'm now more curious about this from the NYTimes:
"[Conte] said the indictment of Mr. Bonds could explain why the government recently asked all the defense lawyers involved in the Balco case to return all sealed affidavits and grand jury transcripts in their possession or to prove they had been destroyed."
How the hell do you prove documents have been destroyed??
And by the way, King, I think you made a good What th Heck pick. The Jets could easily score three or four touchdowns on kick returns.