Letters to the Editor
The Notorious W.E.S.
Published Letters: 3207 Editor's Choice: 27
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How About Clemens
[Read the article: How did baseball botch its tribute to Willie Mays?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]He comes up wirey and lean and dominates a few years.........Then all of a sudden 4 consecutive years combined with a 50-50 won loss record and a 4 plus ERA.........Then all of a sudden bulked up and dominating again. Multiple Cy Youngs and fanning people well into his 40s.
But he's a good ole boy.
Bonds is Darth Vader.
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The Idea..............
[Read the article: How did baseball botch its tribute to Willie Mays?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here].........that A-Rod or Pujols is automatic to catch Bonds is dubious at best. He's more than 250 behind right now. Bond's current .500 plus on base and nearly .600 slugging suggests he's not through. If he was to sign to DH in a home run hitters park in the American League in a line-up with better hitters around him than he's been used to lately he could soar past 800.
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lonewolfy
[Read the article: How did baseball botch its tribute to Willie Mays?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Like I said----we better put Aaron And Mays under a polygraph examination about those little green pills..........And as for Ruth, whose era everyone seems to look back to with such nostalgia---that was whites only. But there is some big moral outrage about the steroid era.........LMAO
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The Dunderhead And Clumsy American Sportsfan
[Read the article: How did baseball botch its tribute to Willie Mays?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]With the ever-present pure-Americano devils and angels on their shoulders, want to make the ballgames into some kind of morality play.
Save the righteous indignation for stuff like Iraq.
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Pitching In Ruth's Day Was A Joke
[Read the article: How did baseball botch its tribute to Willie Mays?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]And that was a bigger advantage for him than steroids is for Bonds...........Very little relief pitching specialism, starters pitching a ton of innings, no relief or acknowledgement of arm injuries--get out there hoss, we need you-- and of course the short right field porch.
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Look
[Read the article: How did baseball botch its tribute to Willie Mays?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Let's set aside for the moment whatever medicine Bonds has taken. He's 43 years old, his knees are buckling when he strides, and he has no signifigant hitters around him in the line-up. And his on base is .500 plus.
The opposing managers and pitchers don't need steroids-- these Lions need to visit the Wizard of Oz and ask for some courage.
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How Many Homers Would He Have
[Read the article: How did baseball botch its tribute to Willie Mays?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]If the gutless bastards had pitched to him?
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One Season
[Read the article: How did baseball botch its tribute to Willie Mays?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]He had 232 walks and 41 strikeouts. That's so far out there, it's hard for dolts to comprehend it.
So they attribute it to steroids instead of pitchers wetting their pants.
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.500 Plus On Base An Illusion?
[Read the article: How did baseball botch its tribute to Willie Mays?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Okay how about the season he was .600 plus?
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Actually
[Read the article: How did baseball botch its tribute to Willie Mays?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I respect that explanation more than the bitching about steroids.
"It's an illusion."
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The Other Team
[Read the article: How did baseball botch its tribute to Willie Mays?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Has one big time hitter so you don't pitch to him.
Intelligence and cowardice look a lot alike daddy.
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I Have A Gut Feeling
[Read the article: Heck of a job, Chertoff!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]That Hillary is going to be President with 56 or more democratic Senators.
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If al-Qaida Is Not Getting Stronger
[Read the article: Heck of a job, Chertoff!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Then there's no need for John Wayne.
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I Saw A Stat The Other Day
[Read the article: Heck of a job, Chertoff!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Since 1968 terrorists have killed 50,000 civilians worldwide. Counting all the suicide bombings in Israel.
What are shark attack and lightning strike totals since 1968?
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Oh Jesus
[Read the article: How did baseball botch its tribute to Willie Mays?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]More persecuted American men.
Shloudn't you be calling the Limbaugh or Hannity radio show?
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I Had Been Tuning Bush Out
[Read the article: Senate agrees on Iran and bin Laden]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Like most Americans. The stubborness is too irritating.
But yesterday I tuned back in for a day to watch his press conference and then I channel surfed and saw Tony Snow, formerly of FOX and now Whitehouse spokesman, with his bright happy eyes and smile doing the entire circuit trumpeting the good news.
It was irritating. Now it's creepy.
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Here's My Question On Iraq
[Read the article: Bush's worst day ever?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]There are American soldiers at some checkpoint. Or patrolling an area. Or securing and holding a neighborhood. 5 or 6 muslim guys with beards and the wrap head-dresses are walking toward them. The soldiers have to be thinking----"Okay, who are these dudes? Are they for us or against us? Can we turn our backs on them? If they act friendly, does that mean they really are on our side?"
Same goes for the security forces our soldiers are training. Same goes for any political figures who are elected.
How is this going to ever change no matter how long we stay there or what we do?
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The Sexuality Of Chickenhawkism
[Read the article: Why David Vitter matters]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Consists of......
A.) Their figurative hard-ons displayed by militarism
B.) Their literal hard-ons in the covert quest for pussy.
C.) All the while condemning and preaching against other people's hard-ons.
Barr, Burton, Gingrich, Hyde, Vitter, Livingstone etc. etc.
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Clinton Didn't Commit Perjury
[Read the article: Why David Vitter matters]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]His testimony about Monica, a consentual affair, was immaterial to a case about an unwanted advance.
Judge Susan Weber Wright ruled as much and the prosecutor declined to indict, which I assume means he had no case.
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I Think We May Have Reached The Point
[Read the article: An al-Qaida safe haven? Really?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Where we can just assume Bush is wrong without any further evidence.
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The Funny Thing Is
[Read the article: David Brooks' field trip to the White House]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]That the hot-head-hot-air conservative talk radio is always ranting about the elitist liberals thumbing their nose at "real America."
Is the nearly 3/4 of America disapproving of Bush and with serious doubts about Iraq "real America."
With Bush it's him and God. That's as elitist as you can get.
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It's An Absolute Fraud
[Read the article: David Brooks' field trip to the White House]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]This dog-dung about principles and not focus groups. Where did they learn that slogan would be a big hit with their base? From focus groups.
Rove and the GOP has the most expensive, organized, and comprehensive polling machine in the history of American politics. And if the data isn't on their side, God is.
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Oh Jesus
[Read the article: Elizabeth Edwards didn't call Hillary Clinton a man]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Surprise, surprise, surprise...On Drudge, now it's the rage on conservative talk radio.
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Elephantman
[Read the article: Elizabeth Edwards didn't call Hillary Clinton a man]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]By "destroy" do you mean winning by electoral college again?
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The Right Wing
[Read the article: The National Review mind]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Needs to decide who the bigger threat is, the queers or the Muslims.
That's the problem. They need to focus their efforts in one direction at a time.
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How Much Stock Should We Put In The September Report?
[Read the article: How much credence should Gen. Petraeus' reports be given?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I'd say roughly the same as in the Senate testimony of Alberto Gonzales.
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It's Never Going To Be Good Enough To Leave
[Read the article: How much credence should Gen. Petraeus' reports be given?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Even if it gets to the point where the various Iraqi factions are all together having campfire marshmallow roasts every night and singing "Give Peace A Chance"....then it will be----We can't leave now and risk losing all we have accomplished.
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It's Like The Baseball Team
[Read the article: How much credence should Gen. Petraeus' reports be given?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]That is 38 games out of first place with 39 to play. They just keep playing and the coaches report on the positive progress of the team.
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Why?
[Read the article: When Barry passes Hank]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Are the records from the Babe Ruth whites only era so sacred? No moral condemnation for that, just nostalgia.
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If Steroid Records Don't Count
[Read the article: When Barry passes Hank]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Then certainly no records set before the color lines were broken should count, in any sport. So what, you were the best white player.
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Amphetamines Were Common
[Read the article: When Barry passes Hank]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]In Aaron's era. He needs to take a polygraph.
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If Anyone Thinks
[Read the article: When Barry passes Hank]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Clemens hasn't used steroids or growth hormones, I'd advise those people to start mating with Ostriches.
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But Roger's
[Read the article: When Barry passes Hank]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]A good ole boy.