Letters to the Editor
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Published Letters: 1215 Editor's Choice: 100
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Will he ever get his facts straight?
[Read the article: Robert Novak's very sad story]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]If the MSM really was over run with liberals, we wouldn't be in the mess we're in today. Journalists are supposed to be liberals! Now, if he said the MSM was overrun with leftists--which is what he means--then he might have a point. If that was true. But it's not, of course. Still, he ought to know the difference between a leftist and a liberal. Or maybe he ought to stop obscuring and misrepresenting those labels for his own agenda. Just because "conservative" and "Republican" are basically synonymous, doesn't mean "leftist," "liberal" and "Democrat" are synonymous. Because they're not.
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A modest proposal
[Read the article: Quote of the Day]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]If Rudy wins the Republican nomination, I propose that we have Rudy's son debate in place of the Democratic nominee, regardless of who that nominee is. Maybe one of his ex-wives, too. Wouldn't THAT get some ratings!
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Wow.
[Read the article: The burden of being John Edwards]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Just wow.
Next time someone asks me why I've giving money to "the black guy," I'll know how to answer...
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... the Point?
[Read the article: The burden of being John Edwards]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Hmmm... I dunno.... Does anything sound funny about painting an extremely wealthy white guy as the underdog and as being disadvantaged simply because he's not black or female?
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America has the sports stars it deserves
[Read the article: King Kaufman's Sports Daily]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I think if we try to look at this objectively (yeah, I know that's basically impossible, but try to humor me here), it seems reasonable to see that the steroid era is a natural extension of the fans' longtime obsession with the long ball. A well-pitched 2-1 nail-biter? Screw that. We want 12-11 nail-biters with LOTS of homers, dammit.
The only thing Americans hate more than a cheater is a loser. We accept liars and cheaters as long as they are on our team, and as long as they win. Why do you think Republicans accept Bush's lying? Because he won twice and keeps their taxes low, and that's all they really care about.
Like it or not--and most of us don't--Barry Bonds is the symbol and reflection of what our society has become. And it has become what it is today because we let it, and even encouraged it.
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RE: "Perfect example of what's wrong with baseball"
[Read the article: King Kaufman's Sports Daily]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]We have "Fantasy Baseball" to thank for that. It's 100% stat-driven, and it ignores all of my favorite aspects of sports. It was only a matter of time until it had a negative effect on the game. Too bad. I cringe everytime I read the sports ticker at the bottom of the screen and they're running fantasy stats of the leading players, instead of scores of the games.
Ironically, the people I know who are into fantasy sports all cite their displeasure with "what's wrong with sports today" as their reason for being invloved in fantasy sports in the first place.
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@Litz
[Read the article: Smearing Bill to get Hillary?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Your letter struck me as very naive. Your post only deals with unearthing "the truth"--or things with barely a tenuous connection to the truth--with the Clintons. Stuff that basically happened pre-2001. However, as we saw with John Kerry in '04, there's no end to the lies they will unearth in order to smear the Clintons. Plus, they have six years of catching up to do, let alone what will transpire over the next two. We've yet to see the beginning of it, really.
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@ Mike Re: Fantasy baseball
[Read the article: King Kaufman's Sports Daily]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]If I said what you say I said, you'd have a point. But I didn't. Nowhere in my comments did I say, or even suggest, that fantasy baseball is "the root of all evil in baseball." I didn't say that, because I don't believe that it is the case. I merely believe that it is an unhealthy influence, (regardless of how dorky and dweebish it is). I stated that there is an over-emphasis on of the significance of stats like homers, and there has been for many decades. But that emphasis has grown in the 40+ years that I've been around, and influences like fantasy baseball only help to increase that influence, even if it's primarily in the minds of the fans.
Just for the record, I agree with you about the worth of Bonds vs. Eckstein to a team. I wouldn't agree with the "100 Ecksteins" part, but the difference "in reality" is significant anyway. However, fantasy baseball exaggerates and inflates that difference (hence your "100 Ecksteins" point), and that's why I don't like it. Well, that, and the fact that it's so dorky and dweebish. But Eckstein has a couple of rings, and Bonds doesn'thave any. And Eckstein himself is a big reason why he has one, and Bonds himself is a big reason why he doesn't, and fantasy baseball doesn't account for those factors. Fantsay baseball is just that: fantasy.
I will offer to "clarify" my opinion of baseball's situation like this: If baseball is a beached whale, with a bunch of sharks and fish feeding on it, fantasy baseball is only one of those fish, and a small one at that. It's not "the root of all evil," nor is it a "huge" problem. But it's not helping, either. It's one relatively minor problem alongside all the major problems. Speaking of problems, don't even get me started with sports talk radio....
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@Anonymous
[Read the article: The burden of being John Edwards]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]If you're so frigging smart, why did you post that last comment onto the wrong thread?
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@Anonymous 2:42
[Read the article: King Kaufman's Sports Daily]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I was on the fence regarding how much I agreed with King's point, but you just convinced me how right he really is. Some events really do require more distance than others in order to see them in the proper context of history.