Letters to the Editor
droogoy
Published Letters: 589 Editor's Choice: 9
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All things baseball - better than blowing Bonds
[Read the article: King Kaufman's Sports Daily]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]KStone huffed:
Wow, you are an idiot. Get up off your knees fool. You can bizzarely worship at the altar of all things baseball
Well, at least worshipping at "the altar of all things baseball" is better - superior to worshipping at the altar of Barry Bonds. Becoming his little bitch to the point of even offering virtual blow jobs in one's posts. But hey, if that's your shtick go for it, meathead.
Re: Mike Coolbaugh, he was killed while first base coach for a minor league team for the Colo. Rockies. After he was killed, mean-spirited comments appeared in the Denver press about how the Denver media made too much of his demise- and "after all, baseball is just a game- he died doing what he loved, get over it".
Much like you have been barfing out. His wife was none too pleased at that sort of response. She clearly pointed out it "wasn't just a game" to him it was LIFE itself - and a metaphor for higher morality.
Something you Bonds-blowing morons will never ever get.
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I'd rather be an "old fool"
[Read the article: King Kaufman's Sports Daily]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Kstone wrote:
In your case, I guess the saying is true: "There's no fool like and old fool."
Well, I would rather be an "old fool" - with a proper sense and knowledge of history (including baseball history), than a young fool - prepared to worship at the altar of any loud-mouthed, bellicose, brash, loathsome felon with some bling.
All you Bonds worshippers for sure will pout and cry when his baseball for "HR 756" enters the Hall with an asterisk on it.
But as we know, this is probably ok with you all - after all felons worship felons. How maggots like Bonds achieved their notoriety doesn't matter to you lot.
Hank Aaron deserves that record, and for all practical and historic fans, he will be the rightful and de facto record holder. Asterisks don't count.
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In fact, King has it backwards
[Read the article: King Kaufman's Sports Daily]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]In actual fact, it will be easier for the Dolphins to get at least one 'W' than for the Pats to go perfecto.
Look, all the Phins need is to get Ricky back in the offense, and Zack Thomas back at LB. Between Jesse Chatman and Ricky they can keep any lower order team off the field, and the offense probably needs only 10 or 13 pts. to win.
I see the following Miami games as highly possible Ws:
Jets, Ravens (always lose at Miami in the reg. season)
The Pats, meanwhile, merely have to come into ONE game a bit off the mark, and make a few critical errors at the right time. Don't think it can occur? Look back a few yrs. ago when the Pats were on a roll and the Phins (then a 3-10) team took them down 27-0 in Miami.
I know the Pats have lots of weapons this year, but believe me there are some Sundays - not many granted- when NONE of them work, or misfire.
We will see - but I am predicting now the Pats go 15-1 in the regular season, though yes, they will get to the SB and win it. (Though it'll be a close game against the Pack)
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Once a hack, always a hack
[Read the article: Joe Klein: Both factually false and stuck in the 1980s]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Joe Klein was a pathetic hack when he wrote Primary Colors and hat hasn't changed since he started his TIME shtick.
I stopped reading the little fruitcake three years ago. He is as useless as The WaPO hack, David Broder.
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Of course not - there're too many people already
[Read the article: I Like to Watch]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It wouldn't make much sense to wish for an army of little mouths that need to be fed and limbs that need to be washed and butts that need to be wiped
Of course, it wouldn't make much sense, and besides the planet is already well over its carrying capacity - estimated at 3 billion. That is more than 3.5 billion that the planet will soon not be able to support - especially after the crunch of Peak oil hits - now est. by 2012.
In an interesting piece to do with child rearing and bearing in the Weekend Journal section of the WSJ - it was noted that cultures and nations (not to mention religions) have plied people with the "you'll be happier with children" rot for ages. In fact, as the piece noted, satisfaction peaks with the first child - but dimiminishes thereafter until the last child leaves home.
And then there's the cost, an estimated $330,000 over a lifetime. If you're paying for foour years at a public university - look at $80,000 total.
In a previous piece about the drag of kids, some moron (I think 'flyover52') averred that was high class numbers and an elite college zone. WRONGO! It is right around what it costs to send a kid to a good state universtiy - with tuition, room AND board as well as books. Shows how little the kid-lubbers know.
Another moron on that thread (I think 'ajbuckle') advised me to go off myself- and lead the way to reducing the people burden of which I wrote. The thread was closed before I could write back that he needed to off himself - if he hadn't contributed a single work or scientific contribution in his life. I have contributed dozens of published scientific papers, as well as written four books.
As for 'The Amazing Race' - it's a great show. But it also shows, as the players move from region to region, how overpopulated this planet it, especially in the third world. This is not to say all the onus should be on the third world to cut back - but it's a good place to start.
Barbados, once faced with severe unemployment and inability to conserve its resources, finally managed to right its own ship when Clyde Gollop (ca. 1966) started the Barbados Family Practice Association. They are responsible for keeping Bim's surplus numbers in check - and hence assuring a greater quality of life for all citizens.