Letters to the Editor
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Published Letters: 36 Editor's Choice: 3
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Blank is the anti-Schuerholz
[Read the article: King Kaufman's Sports Daily]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I grew up in Atlanta back in the 1980's, when every available professional team in the city sucked beyond belief. On the one hand, it was nice to go to the stadium, buy a $5 bleacher seat and then go sit right behind the dugout. On the other, it has been really fun for the past 16 years with a sometimes dominant and always competitive Braves team. By 1993, I had come to the conclusion that John Schuerholz was God and he could do no wrong. Time and again, he made moves that made most Braves fans scratch their heads, only to make us jump for joy in October. To wit:
1) Replacing Otis Nixon with Marquis Grissom, who became an All-Star
2) Replacing All-Star Marquis Grissom with Kenny Lofton, who became an All-Star
3) Replacing All-Star Kenny Lofton with little known Andruw Jones, who became Andruw Jones.
4) David Justice, Chipper Jones, and the Glavine-Smoltz-Avery-Maddux years were his handiwork
5) Etc, etc, etc
The Falcons, however, are still searching for their Schuerholz. Every move made by someone in charge of the Falcons is destined to failure. It's a curse, or something. That team incurred some bad ju-ju in a previous life, and there is no righting that ship. To wit:
1) 1993, signing Eric Dickerson and proclaiming him the savior of the team. Stats for the goggled-one that year - 4 games, 91 yards rushing. That's for the year, not one half of one game.
2) 1991, Glanville tells Brett Favre he will never make it in the NFL and cuts him. Good move, Jerry.
3) This is a team that could not win with Deion Sanders. Enough said.
Doomed, cursed, whatever you want to call it. Those of us in Atlanta have given up and root for other teams now. Personally, I followed Favre to the Pack and became a cheesehead, though I've never even been to Wisconsin.
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The finances are only one part, ramoncreager
[Read the article: King Kaufman's Sports Daily]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Ramon,
The argument that if the financial rewards were greater for a playoff we would already have one is misleading and possibly incorrect. I'm not saying it is incorrect, but it could be.
It could have as much to do with power and who pulls the strings as it does with total dollar amounts. Here is a link to an excellent article by Dan Wetzel that gives a pretty strong argument as to why the playoff system hasn't happened. He argues that playoffs are being blocked by Big-10 commissoner Jim Delany, because the Big-10 profits very handsomely from the Rose Bowl. One quote from the article:
Delany is well aware that a playoff would generate a bigger revenue pie for his league to feast on, but it also would require him to give up the knife that cuts the slices.
http://sports.yahoo.com/ncaaf/news;_ylt=Aqyy1nWYvkJ09adcfqXHTnO_b7sF?slug=dw-rose010507&prov=yhoo&type=lgns
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Huckabee? Fuck me!
[Read the article: Holy Constitution!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]How do assholes like this get this far, anyway? Isn't somebody watching the door?
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I feel like this is "The Matrix"
[Read the article: Ken Pollack: Al Qaeda is a great "catch-all" term]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I'm a fan of Glenn's work because it is always well-reasoned and supported by facts (Imagine that, Mainstream Media, supporting your work with facts. A radical concept, I know, but maybe you should try it) as well as eloquent and concise.
However, I'm now at a loss. Because of the excellent work by Glenn and others, e.g., the "60 Minutes" piece on the railroading of Democratic Alababama govenor Sigelman, it is obvious that something must be done. In several blogs I have heard things such as "When will America wake up and do something about this?" I agree, but the problem is....
What do we do? I'm awake, I see it, our country has been hijacked. But, what to do? I can't storm the White House and arrest W and Dick and Condi. I can't go around with a bullhorn decrying the state of the country. I used to do that with my friends, but they all just tuned me out after a while, saying I was crazy. They didn't want to hear it. They would rather discuss "American Idol". I can't write a letter to either of my senators, one of whom happens to be John McCain.
I feel like I'm tied up in the back seat of a car going 90 mph towards a cliff. I can do nothing but sit back and be thankful this ride will be over soon.
Anyone else have any ideas what we can do about this?
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Who needs nostalgia?
[Read the article: Who needs Lakers-Celtics nostalgia? ]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Apparently, you do, King. The entire article was a walk through your childhood memories. Not that I minded, you made some good points, and I liked the insight of noticing that, for you, these sports were always big but you can see how 'twas not always thus for others. However, it's only through the miracle of nostalgia that you were able to discover that, eh?
Ah, life is a pair of ducks. Decrying nostalgia whilst pontificating points only made clear via nostalgia.
I love it.
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Forgot to mention
[Read the article: Vital unresolved anthrax questions and ABC News]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Good work, as usual, Glenn, but you forgot to mention a few germane points.
1) This "Anthrax Scare" comes directly from the DOD playbook for psycological operations.
2) The FBI investigation into the source of the anthrax was stalled by the Bush administration once it became clear that the anthrax was produced in one of three locations, all of which were under the control of the US government.
3) The major beneficiaries of this incident were Bayer and it's owners. Bayer was near bankruptcy at the time, yet posted it's largest profit in history shortly thereafter. Why? Because Bayer has the only US government contract to produce Cipro. The fact that the Bush family is a majority owner in the corporation of which Bayer is a subsidiary is purely a coinicdence, right?
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WTF is McCain thinking
[Read the article: New McCain Web ad mocks Obama as false Messiah]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I have to scratch my head here, wondering how John McCain believes that airing commercials that show nothing but his opponent in front of cheering crowds is going to help his own campaign.
Oh, wait! I know! An Obamaniac managed to inflitrate to the deepest layers of Mordor, and is arranging his campaign ads now!
That's the only thing that makes any sense.
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Endless Cycle
[Read the article: Tom the Dancing Bug]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Whose beaker is God-Man's brain in?