Letters to the Editor
haplo53
Published Letters: 16
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Maybe...
[Read the article: Bringin' home the bacon, but no boyfriend]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]... if it wasn't called "dating down," fewer men would find such a relationship distasteful.
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This guy...
[Read the article: Throw the bums out of baseball's Hall of Fame]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]... does realize Gary Carter was a catcher, right? A catcher who put up extraordinary offensive numbers for his position?
Does he realize that by using the "leading the league in major offensive categories" criterion, we'd have to throw out Carlton Fisk, too? He never once led his league in home runs, RBI or batting average (I assume these three are what he means by "major offensive categories"). Yet I see no "throw Pudge Fisk out of Cooperstown" argument. Interesting.
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Very cute.
[Read the article: The K Chronicles ]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Cats are funny.
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The Twins...
[Read the article: King Kaufman's Sports Daily]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]... may not be a "big market" team, but they hardly seem like a "have not." They just unloaded a dump truck full of money on Justin Morneau and Michael Cuddyer. They also offered Santana $100m to stay. Maybe we shouldn't be so quick to oversimplify the situation into baseball's class warfare.
As for taking the Mets' package versus some of the others on the table, I think most people underestimate the desire of the Twins to get Johan Santana out of the AL. If indeed the Twins are intent on returning to contention in the next few years, I am sure Santana is a pitcher they did not want haunting them in the AL playoffs.
And let's not forget - Santana held a HUGE amount of leverage in this process with his no-trade clause, and by many accounts preferred to go to the weaker-hitting NL.
Considering that the Mets were the only NL team for whom Santana makes a great deal of sense (in terms of need, prospects, and most importantly the enormous, gigantic financial commitment), it seems inevitable in hindsight that Santana was going to end up there.
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Pecking order
[Read the article: King Kaufman's Sports Daily]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I know the Braves are the chic pick in the NL East... I just get a kick out of how the standard applied to the Mets regarding age and injuries doesn't apply to the Braves.
The Braves' most important player is 36 and hasn't played in 150+ games in five years, their (currently-DL'd) ace is over 40 (as is another starter), and they're also counting on a guy who hasn't pitched since 2005. (And Tim Hudson isn't exactly a spring chicken either).
If these were the Mets and you summed them up this way for a bunch of sportswriters, they'd be falling over each other to be the first to bury them. Meanwhile, if you told them that the Braves had two of the very best young players in baseball, their third-best player was 30, they had arguably the best pitcher in baseball (age 29), two 26-year old starters who won 15 games each last year, and that they actually improved their depth from a season in which they had none and still scored 800 runs, those same writers would start drooling.
It's the national media pecking order, same as it's ever been - the Braves, fashionable; the Mets, gauche.
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That was painful to watch
[Read the article: King Kaufman's Sports Daily]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Funny how somebody who basically uses the "won't somebody think of the children" argument can be amazingly profane while doing so (and subscribe to the TV talking head theory that "louder" = "credible" or "right.").
Will Leitch came off as charming and thoughtful (I had never seen either of them talk before). How he kept his cool in what was obviously an ambush is beyond me, but he won my respect.
And Braylon Edwards was no doubt wondering "what am I doing here?"
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"so how about a couple hundred thousand votes for Carlos Beltran and Travis Hafner?"
[Read the article: All-Star outrage nostalgia]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Beltran has a 128 OPS+, is second in VORP among all NL center fielders and is playing his usual Gold Glove defense. Not sure why he's getting slammed.
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american breweries
[Read the article: The rise and fall of an American beer]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]A previous poster said Sam Adams is now the biggest and Sierra Nevada the second-biggest. I believe I read that this is incorrect - the wonderful Yuengling brewery is now second, and Sierra Nevada third (all three are great).
http://www.brookstonbeerbulletin.com/samuel-adams-biggest-american-brewer/
In any case, Bud is great... for making beer-can chicken. Otherwise it gives me a headache. Too much carbonation, I think.
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Boldly go...
[Read the article: Tom the Dancing Bug]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The USS Enterprise has me giggling.
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KK and lutherhouse nailed it
[Read the article: The Unwritten Rule War rages on]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Reminds me of the waning years of the Torre era, when the Yanks made that massive, massive comeback against the Rangers (2006?). In one of the next games they played against each other, the Rangers again had a big lead, only this time they kept on playing hard, they stole bases, etc. Predictably, everyone howled at how the Rangers were "showing up" the Yankees (I remember Larry Bowa in particular being unhappy about this).
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The Melting Pot
[Read the article: Why I hate summer]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Sometimes it feels like Salon's essays have melted together in the heat of summer to become a great gray soup of navel-gazing.
As a child, the author hates something, experiences something, or has something happen to him/her. Then he/she grows up and moves to New York City to become a writer, only to find that whatever helped define his/her childhood still exists and affects his/her life (despite being a New York City writer and having New York City friends and a perfectly uncomfortable New York City apartment, all while living in New York City!).
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Was the Dole '96 campaign this clueless?
[Read the article: New McCain Web ad mocks Obama as false Messiah]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It's been a while, but I remember the media at the time pretty much treating his candidacy like a joke. Yet I can't remember that campaign acting as if it's from another planet quite the way McCain's does... and yet, everything that McCain '08 does is treated as if it's completely normal.
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Yunegling...
[Read the article: And the next great American beer will be...? ]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]... is the ultimate comfort beer for a Pennsylvanian. It tastes like home. There's something pretty special about that.
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Saintperle...
[Read the article: I Like to Watch]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Just what I was thinking. It's not a good sign when you seem to have taken Show X (Psych), remove the element that makes it fun (comedy) and present it as something new (The Mentalist).
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prytania
[Read the article: I Like to Watch]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Give me the humor any day of the week. I look at Simon Baker's face in that ravioli graphic and think "that show looks like a vacuum of fun."
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My kid's seven weeks old today...
[Read the article: The K Chronicles]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]... so I got a kick out of this comic. Congrats Keith!