Letters to the Editor
Published Letters: 30 Editor's Choice: 5
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My personal reason for rooting for George Mason?
[Read the article: King Kaufman's Sports Daily]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]My Spartan-laden alma matar had their asses handed to them by these spunky gentlemen in the first round. Usually, a first-round exit is untolerable under the Izzo Regime. But if the team they lose to is an eventual Final Four cinderella team, well, it makes the loss a little easier.
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Thank you for being the voice of reason
[Read the article: King Kaufman's Sports Daily]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]So many folks have been jumping on the Indians bandwagon, thinking their second-half Tour of Dominance is a sign of things to expect this year. But by replacing their best pitcher with a #3 guy in Byrd, having another year relying heavily on the heavy Man of Wick, and the fact that this team isn't as young as everyone makes them out to be, well, there's no reason to expect them to run away with the title like everyone thinks.
Yes, the White Sox got lucky last season. But they also got better this offseason. When Javier Vazquez is your number 5 starter (with Brandon McCarthy salivating in the wings), you have a pretty good chance to repeat.
Then again, having just watched Skip Bayless pick the White Sox to win the Central - and the Tigers to take the wild card - I'm doubting my above argument.
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Noah's professional career: TBA
[Read the article: King Kaufman's Sports Daily]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]He elevates himself by motioning a kiss towards the cheerleader section, but ruins it all by doing that horrible Gator chomp bit. I'm still torn on him.
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Was waiting for a Charlie Sheen reference ...
[Read the article: Jesus: The coverup]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I'm not sure how to react to this whole "Da Vinci" phenomenon. I do enjoy that more and more people, since being exposed to the book, are conducting their own research about the Bible and coming to their own conclusions about it, rather than the conclusions that have been spelled out by the relgious leaders. But, at the same time, you have a large percentage of people taking "Da Vinci" as fact, instead of fiction, and believing that reading that book ALONE is their research.
I have the same kind of feeling about the whole 9/11 conspiracy stuff. Questioning the government is really never a bad thing, and there are a few issues I have with the "official" version of 9/11 that the government has given us, but there are too many people who are being brainwashed by "documentaries" that are finding their way around the Internet. When one does their own research, many of the "facts" in these movies become as fictious as Dan Brown's book.
Basically what it comes down to is people being lazy and not conducting any research on their own, leaving the only versions of the truth to be written either by the people in charge (government or religion) or the insane rambling lunatics (9/11 conspiracists, Baigent). Somewhere, there's a middle ground. But only if the reader themselves stop being lazy and find it themselves.
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Re: Fantasy Baseball
[Read the article: King Kaufman's Sports Daily]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Another bonus side-effect of following fantasy baseball: calculating your own fantasy stats while playing in an intramural softball league!
My stats from last night: 1B, 2B, R, RBI - 5 fantasy points in 3 ABs. Not All-Star numbers, but a decent waiver pickup.
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Bonds stops pressing.
[Read the article: King Kaufman's Sports Daily]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Some other news from the game was that Bonds seems to have gotten out of his McGuire Home-Run-or-Bust approach. Most of his swings were just trying to get hits instead of sending them out of the park.
Now that he's on the road, taking the pressure off about knocking out that magic number into McCovey Cove, he'll get to 715 before Sunday. As most of us learned in high school when we decided to take the plunge and ask that super-hot girl out on a date, when you stop overanalyzing evetything, good things tend to happen.
Mark my words: he'll hit 715 by Sunday. Then we can thankfully substitute the daily Bonds Watch for Pujols Updates.
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The calm before the storm
[Read the article: Much ado about nothing]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Heather, you said:
"It would've made a nice scene in the second-to-last episode of the season -- or better yet, a great mid-season scene, signifying the calm before the eventual storm."
But isn't that what this episode was? A mid-season finale?
From the get-go, the fellas at HBO and Chase have been saying this these last 20 episodes are to be viewed as one overall season. The only reason this episode was viewed by the public as a finale was because of the hiatus. But when "Lost" goes on mini-hiatus for a month or two, we don't consider that pre-hiatus episode to live have any season-finale-type significance.
(And really, 6 months is nothing compared to the other Soprano hiatuses -- or, hiati, I suppose, I never pluralized hiatus before.)
So if that's the case, that we're supposed to look at these 20 as one season, then having this episode as the near-midpoint makes perfect sense. A nice, as you said, "calm before the storm".
Of course, if that storm never arrives, all bets are off.