Letters to the Editor
sansho1
Published Letters: 233 Editor's Choice: 38
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Grimsley's Teammates
[Read the article: King Kaufman's Sports Daily]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Wow, you'd have to look around for a while to find a worse player to have cooperated with the feds, from baseball's perspective. Grimsley has pitched for seven different teams in a big league career that began in 1989, and spans what we usually consider to be the "steroid era".
A quick scan of his Baseball Reference page shows he's had probably 400+ big league teammates in his career. Additionally, he's pitched for 13 different minor league teams since 1985. All told, his total number of teammates is surely over a thousand. While a smoking gun implicating Bonds or Clemens or the like would garner more headlines, getting someone like Grimsley to name names could end up being far more damaging.
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Future Dilettante
[Read the article: I dropped out of psych graduate school and don't know what to do!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Some people in the LW's position and mindset find a single, meaningful, rewarding career path that they follow to the end of their days, I suppose. I don't happen to know any of them, but I'm sure it happens. But most drift along in a series of jobs that they find beneath them, and the story continues apace.
So, lacking inspiration towards a particular career, for reasons both external and internal, the short term is probably more of the same for the LW. And financial realities may make the film and media studies idea difficult -- he's already unable to support himself, and is pining for a career that will first require yet another significant outlay of money, with no guarantee of a decent-paying job at the end of the day. Sounds bleak, but it's hardly a death sentence.
Assuming the LW can call upon a work ethic to survive, my advice is to put that intellect to work doing a better job than those around him/her, even in jobs that he considers beneath him. Once he takes on some trappings of life, he'll probably find that a job is a job, and by definition not "beneath him". And by keeping his eyes open and remaining willing to talk to others in his position during these meandering times, a particular idea or personal contact will eventually take hold and he'll do fine. This is what happens. Advising him to follow his dreams is all well and good, but the LW doesn't sound particularly invested even in the media studies thing. So keep working, put on a good face, and take opportunities that promise incremental improvement on his situation -- that's my advice.
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Frederick, I beg you,
[Read the article: A peach of a scandal in Georgia]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]as a fellow Georgian, please don't do this thing:
I live in Georgia and I plan on voting in the primary for good ol' Ralph.
I understand the impulse to do this, for the reasons you state, but at the end of the day, isn't a vote for that sleazebag a VOTE FOR THAT SLEAZEBAG? Here's what the AP had to say recently:
"Most eyes have been on Reed's Republican challenger, state Sen. Casey Cagle, because the winner of the GOP primary will be heavily favored to win in November, thanks to the state's recent tilt toward Republican candidates."
Respectfully, this is not a time to be clever. A vote for Reed in the primaries will do nothing but enhance his chances to actually (I can't believe this) REPRESENT the state of Georgia in elected office. I don't care about the eventual consequences, because the election of Reed would send a signal that, in our great state, there are no consequences. If there was ever a time to hew to the universal standard, I submit that this is it.
Sam Bass
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Straight Talk
[Read the article: Watch out for Mister Enlightenment! He's a backdoor man!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Spot on -- time for the LW to shed his illusions aggressively and see what he's left with. Unfortunately, it doesn't sound like he's left with anything worth having.
You might want to clarify "property" though....
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Off Topic Cycling Rant
[Read the article: King Kaufman's Sports Daily]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Let me preface by saying I'm all for sharing the road -- my last car had the bumper sticker to prove it, and I'm an occasional road cyclist myself. But it really chaps my hide when, after waiting patiently to pass a cyclist in my car, then finally doing so, I pull up to a stoplight only to see said cyclist pass an entire line of cars and force us to do our dance all over again.
This doesn't happen occasionally, but almost always. And this isn't a bucolic neighborhood lane on a Sunday afternoon, but a busy thoroughfare during rush hour (DeKalb Avenue in Atlanta, just in case there are any fellow sufferers out there). Where is the acknowledgement on the part of the cyclist that he/she is also sharing the road? What's the etiquitte on this supposed to be?
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Speaking of HOF travesties...
[Read the article: King Kaufman's Sports Daily]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Ron Santo
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LOL
[Read the article: The North goes south]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]This put me in the mood to read some Harry Crews or Larry Brown (RIP), two of our greatest Southern regional novelists. Check out Brown's Faye or Crews' A Feast of Snakes to discover what living with endless supplies of swelter and cheap hooch can do to a person.
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Only if
[Read the article: King Kaufman's Sports Daily]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]the song was called "Afternoon Deland"...
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I've gone back and forth on LASIK...
[Read the article: LASIK surgery ruined my eyes]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]...and the LW confirms my suspicion that it isn't worth the risk. It turns out fine for most people, but I've lived with corrective lenses for 25 years -- it's not that bad.
I don't have an opinion on the friend's role. Best friends often speak to each other in ways that sound crass or manipulative when put to paper. But the LW definitely needs to hear that he/she bears the responsibility for the decision. That doesn't mean that the anger isn't understandable -- ruined eyesight is, I imagine, terribly difficult to cope with. Dr. Laura-esque lectures are, as is nearly always the case, useless in this context.