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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR In this space your take can suck. Please send your comments to baseballsavvy@aol.com. Give us your first name, last name or initial, city and state. No profanity, please. If you absolutely must, use bleeps. Like this: “Those bleeping San Francisco Bleeps with that bleepin’, cheatin’, left-handed hittin’ outfielder, and their zero World Championships in half a bleeping century…” Got it? Hey Editor, Just so you know your breath isn't entirely wasted when you get to the serious stuff, I never in my life carried an organ donor card until reading one of your columns on the subject about a year ago.
And I was there the night of the Campy Tribute at the Coliseum. So these are some old - but very fine - organs.
In the immortal words of Terry Forster, “A waste is a terrible thing to mind!” Ron Yukelson
Raise your hand, if, before the Dodgers had their final tally of 11 Saturday, you knew, you just knew they were coming back weak on Sunday, lucky to score even a couple. Now raise your other hand if you think the Dodgers are just plain weak, generally, and have already resigned yourself to a very long year… Consider my hand raised. At least we don’t have to worry about the Dodgers starting off hot and letting us down later in the season. Uh, unless they’re hot now, and it get worse somehow…?
I find the entire Buckner first pitch thing annoying. These are the same fans that whined for 86 years about some BS curse and probably made Buckner’s life a living hell every year since, EXCEPT oh, they win 2 World Series in 4 years, and now he is OK in their book. Buckner should’ve said"screw you" to the offer instead of weeping like he was giving a Hall of Fame speech. This guy is a .289 career hitter with over 2,700 hits, and yet my generation (27 years old) only knows him as a hobbled first baseman who added to Boston’s misery. Totally weak. I did enjoy sticking it to Red Sox fans when they were in town to play the Athletics a few weeks back. They showed that exact play you described at the bottom of your column and my buddy and I had to stand up and ask all the Sox fans around us (believe me there were plenty) at the top of our lungs “Isn’t that your boy?!!?!” It was the only bright spot since that was Rich Harden’s second (and possibly) final start of the 2008. Another season and another trip to the DL.
"Last week, the writers elected a relief pitcher to the Hall of Fame, at the exclusion of all others and for the second straight year. Bruce Sutter in 2007, Rich Gossage in 2008." Bruce Sutter was elected in 2006. Cal Ripken Jr. and Tony Gwynn were elected in 2007. And to be fair, Sutter was the only BBWAA inductee, specifically. He was inducted with 17 Negro Leaguers. Gossage is the only player inducted by either the BBWAA or Veterans Committee, so that much is correct. I do want to add that I love the idea of putting a statue of Sandy Koufax outside of Dodger Stadium. I am a Dodgers fan living clear across the country (not by choice; I was born here), and I for one would be tickled just to know it's there, even if I don't get to see it. I'm glad other people feel the same way.
It is not enough for Mark McGwire to apologize for his steroid or other illegal substance using. That is not enough to make him a hero. His use of performance-enhancing substances enabled him to break what is probably the most prestigious record in all of professional sports. All of his 60-plus HR seasons should be nullified, as should those of SS and BB. The record should be restored to its rightful owner. In the alternative, a separate HRs in a season list should be devised, effective 1998, which would be called "Most Home Runs in a Season by a Performing-Enhanced Cheat." We'll start with the numbers 73, 70, 66 and work our way down from there.
"Denzel Washington accused of using steroids during the filming of :American Gangster." Should there be an asterick next to his Golden Globe nomination? (E)nquiring minds want to know! Bet it's a lot warmer in San Diego right now than it is in Belfast, Maine.
Juan Pierre will track down any fly ball?......after a couple of bounces maybe.....deep flies he's okay, coming in on the ball he looks like a cat on the freeway.
Just read your article about Bobby Cox. Thank goodness someone else feels the same way about that poor excuse for a human being as I do. Every time I see him sitting in the Braves dugout it makes me sick. I can't even tell you how much I dislike him.
On a happier note, I agree with you that the Dodgers looked much better this past weekend. One player who doesn't get the attention he deserves is Juan Pierre. He goes full out the whole time. He's not flashy, just steady.
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Tony Jackson is pissing me off lately. Apparently, the Angels are now LA's team? Shame on him. Bob E PS We love ya H, even when we forget to write.
I enjoyed your article and coverage about Jackie Robinson.
Noted you're conceding Tony La Russa's a Hall of Fame manager. And the World Series wins are certainly an important factor. But before we enshrine Tony, the Vets' Committee should do the honors for Charlie Grimm. Charlie debuted in the bigs as a teenager during WWI, played 20 years, hit a lifetime .290, whacked .345 in 1923, .331 in 1931. But it's not as a first baseman that Grimm
earned a Cooperstown nod. He player/managed or
managed 4 (yes 4!) pennant-winners for the Roy Frisvold
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