Letters to the Editor
The Notorious W.E.S.
Published Letters: 3207 Editor's Choice: 27
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Ted Williams
[Read the article: King Kaufman's Sports Daily]
[Read more letters about this article: Here].400 average would not have happened without Fenway. I'm sure he was a much higher career hitter at Fenway as all the long time stars of the Red Sox were.
Williams also did not face pure gas, superior to the starting pitcher, in a ton of his late inning at bats as Bonds did.
Williams was facing a worn out starter or some second rate guy. Same for Ruth. And even Mays and Aaron to a somehwat lesser extent.
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As Far
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]As not being able to locate home-road stats, or finding limited ones, of course. They don't want you to know that stuff.
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And On The Road
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]Did Williams have in Yankee stadium? With the mickey mouse almost little league right field porch. I'm sure he took advantage of that, although not to the extent Ruth did.
Bonds would have loved that.
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This Is Where
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]In other arguments I have encountered---All of Ruths homers were titanic blasts.
This coming from some clown who has seen one or two of the 714 on film footage.
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One Of The Primary
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]Reasons for much of the heralded offensive stats up through the 1940s and 50s was the general slowness of outfielders as compared to today. The triple stats were ridiculous. I'm sure this slowness afield added to the singles and doubles totals also.
I'm sure the steroid guys would have loved to have slower outfielders.
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This Is Just A Guess
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]Which can be risky........But I'd say Bonds faced lefties a higher percentage of the time than Ruth or Williams.
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About 1/3
[Read the article: King Kaufman's Sports Daily]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Of his at bats.
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What?
[Read the article: King Kaufman's Sports Daily]
[Read more letters about this article: Here].433 home and .380 road, big deal? Like I said, Bonds doesn't hit 73 without steroids and Williams doesn't hit .400 without Fenway
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It's Funny
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]If Bonds had played his career in Fenway, and started steroids at the same time frame, some of his numbers would undoubtedly be higher, batting average way higher for one, and people would be blaming the whole thing on steroids.
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I Don't Want To Over-Post
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]So farewell.
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Okay
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]Just to make Anonymous happy, one more post.........As far as impressive seasons that will be hard to top, Charley Rayburn----73 starts, 73 complete games, 59 wins.
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And Yes
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]A ball going to the wall would give a slower baserunner a better chance to get a triple, and get more triples, with slower outfielders.
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Triples Due To Bigger Parks
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]Of course faster outfielders would get to more balls, thus limiting the balls going to the wall, thus lowering triples for slow and fast runners alike.
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But Hey
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]If you want to believe if you sent all of todays outfielders to play defense back then there'd be the same number of triples back then, it's a free country.
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In Many Case Back Then
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]The outfielders probably played very deeply to prevent the ball rolling all the way to a very deep fence, but it still happened enough due to the lack of speed to insure a ton of triples. And the deep positioning in the outfield added to the singles and as well, increasing general batting averages and batting average highs from what they would be with more defensive speed.
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I'm Afraid
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]We have to assume at this point that not making editor's choice is a good thing.
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The Mariners Pitching Staff
[Read the article: King Kaufman's Sports Daily]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Were giving up all those homers to Griffey and the Mariners?
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Just So
[Read the article: King Kaufman's Sports Daily]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You realize he doesn't hit .400 without Fenway
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Go Check Out
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]Rice and Boggs.
You guys are digging now, that's a step in the right direction.
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.429 home, .378 road
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]That's 51 points.........That's like a .300 hitter versus a .250.
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Boggs
[Read the article: King Kaufman's Sports Daily]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Okay I had to go do it---------Here's a grab-bag of his seasons with Boston home and road batting----.397, .321.........352, 296.......418, 322.......411, 312........377, 287......359, 245.....389, 282.
That looks like steroids to me. Or puts steroids to shame.
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There's One More Angry Man
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]Starting to think.
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I'm Giving Myself
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]A 5 Day suspension for over-posting. But when I come back, I expect to see an improvement of analysis around here.
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Off Topic, But Timely
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]Since turning pro Tiger has played in 44 majors. Here are the cumulative results against some others in those 44 major tournaments......Els is in second place, 189 shots back.
Tiger Woods: -120, 13 Wins
Ernie Els: +69, 3 Wins
Phil Mickelson: +78, 3 Wins
Retief Goosen: +126, 2 Wins
Sergio Garcia: +130, 0 Wins
Vijay Singh: +131, 3 Wins
Davis Love: +146, 1 Win
Jim Furyk: +161, 1 Win
Fred Couples: +185, 1 Win
Jose Maria Olazabal +201, 2 Wins
Colin Montgomerie: +205, 0 Wins
Tom Lehman: +216, 1 Win
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As I Have Pointed Out Before
[Read the article: The man who sold the war]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Many of the problems within the republican party are of a sexual nature, much to the chagrin and detriment of the entire country.
I'm sure Rove falls into this category. Once in power many of these guys can get laid, but long ago it was hopeless frustration. And they carry that chip on their shoulder.
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Ankiel Also Provides Something Else
[Read the article: King Kaufman's Sports Daily]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]If a beanball battle starts, LaRussa can go out to the mound and wave him in from the outfield.
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I'm Still Waiting
[Read the article: The Islamists are coming]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]For a definition of "radical Islam."............Are they the muslims most angry with our military presence on their land for decades?
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I Can't Wait
[Read the article: The Islamists are coming]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]For the Petraeus September report.........If we just stay on their land a while longer all this will stop.
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I'd Say
[Read the article: The Islamists are coming]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]If America had a million oil fields but not much of a military, and the Muslims had the strongest army, then we may be in danger of attack and occupation.
And then the republican party would give birth to something that makes Al-Qaida look like tiddly-winks.
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You Gotta Respect Islam To An Extent
[Read the article: The Islamists are coming]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]They've stopped the American right wing chickenhawks dead in their tracks.
The chickenhawk base would LOVE an attack on Iran. And the chickenhawk leadership have been chomping at the bit to do it. But Iraq's been such a disaster that even the chickenhawks calling the shots are balking. It's like--Jesus, what are those Itanian assholes capable of in response to our aggression. They are 3 times Iraq. They could disrupt the entire oil game. Then our wallets take the hit.
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3pointshooter
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]And what managerial resume' would you submit to top LaRussa?
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Islam Creeping Into The West?
[Read the article: The Islamists are coming]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]We are the superpower. Oil pipelines running smoothly paramount to maintaining our superpower status.
Our government has been doing shitty, underhanded, and duplicitous stuff over there going on a century. Stuff we'll never know about. And the stuff we do know about is draped in platitudes like "enemy of our enemy is our friend."
Someone post the 80's photo-op of Saddam and Rumsfeld, shit eating grins all around.
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World Terror
[Read the article: The Islamists are coming]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Tied for first place in the history of world terrorism are the United States and Soviet armament industries of the cold war. A worldwide weapons auction and buffet for decades.
Second place isn't even in shouting distance.