Letters to the Editor
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Published Letters: 28
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Joan. This is mudslinging.
[Read the article: Bring on the insurgents -- and call girls!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Give up the partisan bickering and start offering ideas and solutions. Because even if the last 20 years of presidential politics has been all about character assassination, rumor, and lies there is still only one way out - promote real dialogue. Slinging the mud will only get you down there in the pit with the likes of Laura Ingraham and Glen Beck. Spare us the spectacle and start promoting some issues: Health Care, Services and care for Challenged children for life, a foreign policy that doesn't kill innocent people and their children but still protects us from those who would offer the minimum in respect for us, free child care no questions asked, better cars, fewer roads, more trains and buses and bikes, you know- all those things that would improve all of our lives but leave the few dissenters with a slightly diminished horsepower and smaller, but still gaudy, outer suburban mansions. Pull yourself up out of the mud and start writing - get busy.
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what happened to the press?
[Read the article: Lewis Libby owes his freedom to our corrupt political elite]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]anybody know?
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present and support ideas for real change
[Read the article: The jerk in chief]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I wonder sometimes Joan if you are working for the office of the vice president. your job? muckraking and mudslinging and smokescreening and, because you love baseball so much, throwing roundhouse curveballs to keep us off balance and with our eyes on something other than the ball.
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adding to a subject that is already in the void
[Read the article: Empty thine in-box]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]In the old days the in box was an overflowing metal tray out of which every inquiry was eventually given some, if not it's due, consideration. And somewhere between the mail man, the in box, the out box, the one hour lunch, and the typist there would be time to reflect and ponder and to plan an appropriate reply. The inquirer would, by mail, recieve that reply in a few days, days that could be spent thinking it all over by both the inquirer and the the inquiree. Thoughtful solutions often came to each party during those intervals. Today, for sure, things get done faster, but do they get done better? I know we can't throw billions of dollars worth of worthless phone systems into dumpsters and I know that email and cell phones are here to stay and I don't want to suggest that we should use all this communications infrastructure to create new coral reefs - I only want to suggest that we should view human thoughtfulness and strategic thinking as endangered and make some special exceptions to save them from extinction. Slow down. Answer your phone. Encourage human interaction and stop taking your PDA to ballgames. Read your email twice a day. Once in the morning and maybe again before riding your bike home from work.
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erase the 73 and still
[Read the article: Thank you, Hank Aaron]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]he is the best hitter ever to dig into a batters box and if he continues to play (maybe an American league stint) and the 73 were erased he would just surpass Hank again.
I'm sure that he used just like the majority of the players who played in his era (most of whom are selling cars now because even the performance enhancers didn't make them good enough), but I believe there is a standard that should be applied to the criticism of them all. First, mention the influence of ownership and media on the phenomena. How much money did the television media make on the McGuire/Sosa home run race? How much money did owner's make on the same? How much pressure was there from the media and their sponsors to "juice" the game either by fiddling with the ball or offering some "modern training techniques" to their contracted players (even the kid's just out of high school)? Talk to and about the owners, talk to the coaches and the trainers and the front office execs, look into the back rooms of the major televison media organizations who wanted more pizzaz in the game, go back and read the "baseball is dead" columns written by the same hypocrits who are now pasting astericks in the record books, and if all of them are willing to stand up and answer every question, then talk about Bonds. Then open the record books and take away every result that might have been influenced by a player having had a cortisone shot. Turn every warning path flyball hit off a Tommy John pitcher into a homer. Take away any result that may have been the result of a depressed pitcher taking prozac, reverse the beneficial effects of that recent brain surgery you had under the knife of a surgeon taking provogil, send back all your Viagra children to God, and then talk about Bonds.
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Just Induct Baby, Just Induct
[Read the article: Throw the bums out of baseball's Hall of Fame]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]If the Baseball Hall of Fame were to truly honor the concept of including only the truly great there would be years, many of them, without any qualified inductees. But, these halls of fame are businesses and that's what they do, they induct - so let's move on to more important matters like why isn't Joe Orsolak in there if Cal Ripken is?