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Midnight Breakfasts

6.28.05 @ 12:01AM

KEEPING YOU UP?
Re: TAS Online:

Would you mind terribly not posting the Monday Prowler until, say, 5 a.m.?

Posting it shortly after midnight, as you do, makes it difficult to resist the urge to stay up and read it as soon as it goes up, and then there is the problem of Mr. Babbin's column, the required-reading "Loose Canons."

It is ruining my health. He is relentless, either shoving our faces in the poo we've tried so hard all weekend to put out of mind, or, revealing some new poo we hadn't even known about.

Either way, we're up all night, tossing and turning in trepidation or fury. Hell of a way to start a Monday morning, and it's downhill all week from there.

We need to keep our strength up for the awful struggle ahead.

Hillary? No, no, no -- is it drawn so near, so soon? The Decline and Fall, I mean.

Gibbon, meet Babbin.
-- Paul Kotik
Plantation, Florida

CRUSADING FOR HILL
Re: Jed Babbin's Slippary:

Add another "gullible" to the Hillary Camp -- Billy Graham. At his crusade in NYC Saturday, June 25, he actually said of the alleged rapist, Bill Clinton, that he would be a good "preacher" and that he should pass his gifts on to his morally challenged wife so that she can run the country!

Am I in the twilight zone or what?
-- Joellen M. Arrabito
Point Pleasant Beach, New Jersey

HOMERS
Re: P. David Hornik's Basketball for Breakfast:

I am not much of a sports fan. I haven't watched a whole basketball game since the Bulls' last championship series. But I like the Spurs. I don't know if it's because they're well spoken. It may be that it's because they have one of the lowest payrolls in big-time professional sports. It may also be that it's because, on the court they are totally unselfish, winning's what counts, not who gets the kudos. And it may be because in the nine years I've lived in San Antonio, I have not heard of one episode of domestic abuse, drunk and disorderly conduct, assault, or DWI. Whatever the reasons, they are a class act.
-- John Jarrell
San Antonio, Texas

I can proudly say that I am first a Spurs fan and then a Pistons fan after spending my whole life hating pro basketball because of the show boating, unsportsmanlike conduct of the players and the individual nature of the game. This is the same reason I have quit watching pro football. Now come two teams with character, humility and true superstars who let their game speak for themselves. They do what they do best through team play and unit cohesion. No individual is greater than the team as a whole. I can hardly wait till tip off for next year's season!

It was former San Antonio Spur David Robinson's as well as Tim Duncan's character and humility that created a brand new NBA fan out of me at the ripe old age of 36!

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