Letters to the Editor
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100 Long Years
As a lifelong season ticket holding Cub fan, I don't give a good God damn if they call it Dog-Balls-Hugo Chavez-North-Korea-Stalin-Eric Show Field. I just want a pennant. Come on Sweat Lou! One NL pennant!
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I Stopped
Watching the Cubbies when Harry Caray died and they started hanging ads behind home plate. The lovable losers have pretty much worn out their welcome in my heart. I'll fondly remember Banks, Santo, Williams and warm summer days watching a real team play in the "Friendly Confines". They can name it whatever they want, the thrill is gone.
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Wrigley mineField
Haha -- King and anyone else interested in the subject of renaming Wrigley Field: Take a gander over to the Chicago Tribune's message board and be entertained for hours.
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A field by any other name...
Heck, everyone I know still calls the place the SF Giants play Pac Bell and it was only named that for about a minute. What is it, on its third name now?
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Poking back at the Knight blind spot
Twenty-three days ago, in one of the letters to Kaufman's column headlined "Good riddance, Bob Knight," I suggested that "perhaps Knight is one of [Kaufman's] blind spots." It was not the only letter making such a suggestion.
It took all of twenty-three days until writing another bit slamming Knight. Twenty-three days -- the very next point when any news about Bob Knight came across the AP wire.
This definitely hit the point where it's hard to deny that blind spot.
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What's in a name?
To all of us northsiders, it will always be Wrigley Field. Just like knowing that Sheffield is 1000 (as in 10 hundred) west and Addison is 3600 North and the Redline is the Jackson Park-Howard.
Things only a Chicagoan would know.
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Donald, I don't think "blind spot" is what I'd call Knight in relation to King Kaufman.
I think Bob Knight is one of those people that King Kaufman actively opposes; someone who stands for everything Kaufman despises.
Knight is a huntin', gun totin', proud Republican votin', rule-abidin' no-nonsense guy. And old-fashioned coach out of the U.S. Naval Academy after Ohio State and before conservative Bloomington, Indiana. Knight was a disciple of people like Fred Taylor at Ohio State and Bo Schembechler at Michigan.
When King Kaufman goes after Bob Knight, as when John Feinstein of Duke and NPR goes after Knight, it is entirely deliberate and calculated. It's no "blind spot."
One of the great things about cable and the internet is that we now see more extended, full-length video of the kinds of press conferences that King Kaufman apparently wants to draw our attention to. I've seen them. It is usually a scenario when, after a tough game, a bland and disinterested reporter (or someone who dislikes Knight for his own reasons, like Kaufman or Feinstein) asks a collossally stupid question, and gets the kind of response that, when you see it in the context of the entire presse conference, you wonder how it is athletes and coaches can suffer through with straight faces. Seriously stupid or insulting questions.
I don't find it the slightest bit hypocritical that Knight would take ESPN's money and do color for their games. I will definitely tune in to hear what a great, passionate coach like Knight has to say. I hope it is as unvarnished as television will allow. He will surely know more about any game he is asked to cover than practically anyone else in the arena.
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And just as quickly as their lord and savior gets called on being the scumbag he is (again)
the wacky loons at the The Church of Bobby Knight come out screaming and howling about how their chosen, petty little tyrannical bully of a god is misunderstood. It's enough to make L. Ron Hubbard envious from the grave.
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Dusty the assole...
...is just demolishing mine and hundreds of thousand of other fantasy teams by not having a single idea of what he is doing. Jay Bruce, you idiot! Jay Bruce and Joey Votto!!!!
This jerk-off has been ignoring talented youngsters for years, except when he's ruining their arms. Somebody stop the madness!!
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Wha t's in a name?
What was better?
Veterans Field in Philly or Lincoln Financial Field?
Of course, Lincoln Financial brings up images of brave CEO's in three piece suits, nursing sagging bellies, and 500 million dollar bonuses for doing next to nothing for anyone but themselves and a few investors from God knows what country. Compared to soldiers that have fought in WWII to the present? The choice is natural. What a joke!!!
However, it's the game on the field that matters and you know what? Along with the corporate mentality comes 10 minutes of commercials before and after every kick-off plus other commercial time outs. The game is still great, but this financial influence is awful.
Back in Vince Lombardi's time, I read he pitched a fit when a commercial time out was called during a game, stating that it could have cost the Packers the game.
I love watching NFL, but all the long breaks for moronic commercials is ridiculous.
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Knight
"Knight is a huntin', gun totin', proud Republican votin', rule-abidin' no-nonsense guy."
Um...you left out police officer assaultin'. And chair throwin'. And player chokin'. And racial slur usin'. And student attackin'.
It never fails to amaze me how Knight's supporters simply can't accept the fact that most people detest Knight because he's a hypocritical, abusive thug. Nah - it must be because he's old-fashioned, and them thar libruls done hate old-fashioned people! Yeah, that must be it!
All this talk of a "blind spot" for Knight is just absurd. Kaufman always uses his column to call out the players, coaches, media people, etc. in sports that do reprehensible things. If he calls out Knight unusually much, that's because Knight is unusually despicable.
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Knight
Left nuggets of coaching wisdom to his son. Texas Tech just had their worst conference loss in school history.
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Ads on uniforms
I know most of you don't consider the CFL a major sport but last season all teams sported a samll one of the left shoulder pad. All except the Alouettes had a molson Canadian beer logo while the Al's had a Molson Ex logo. Most of the fields had one maybe 2 advertisement as well.
As for Bob Knight I did not know he was a republican but that sure explains his deplorable behavior now.
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Knight Said
In the war on drugs we need to forget about the bill of rights and the constitution.