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Strike Two

12.31.07 @ 12:01AM

UNLEVEL PLAYING FIELD
Re: Paul Beston's Steroids and the Culture of Narcissism:

Senator Mitchell's Report told us nothing we, the public, didn't already know. That it included names made it salacious. The heroes are just like us, see?

Baseball is their business, their livelihoods, and they are in competition with each other to stay in business. That they would avail themselves of anything and everything to assure they retain their positions is not news. People in business do it everyday.

That players earn fantastic sums of money is not what separates them from the public that worships their records and achievements. Entertainers in every other venue earn sums over long careers far greater than do any one player in a career lasting but a few years. That the playing field, no pun intended, is unlevel is more the issue. There's not a sandlot player alive who hasn't thought, "If I had done steroids, maybe I could have made it to The Bigs, too."

This was not mentioned in the column. The fans respect achievement, but not if the ability to achieve is tilted towards those whose talents are augmented artificially.
-- Laney Bormel
Parkton, Maryland

George Mitchell used to be a Senator.

I didn't trust him then, and I don't trust him now.
-- Dan Martin
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

DEAD MBA
Re: John Tabin's Fight Club Irregulars:

A comment, if I may, regarding Mr. Tabin's analysis of Mr. Romney. An argument can be made that President Bush is too combative, too quick to use the American military. I happen to think that he was right in taking down Sadaam, but the opposite argument can, at least, be made. With Mr. Romney, I worry that he will depend on negotiation, on the MBA approach, if you will, for entirely too long before doing what is right and inserting our military. It is good not to be too quick on the trigger, but if one draws one's weapon but refuses to pull the trigger at all, one is liable to wake up dead.
-- Ken Shreve

LAUGHER CURVE
Re: Jeffrey Lord's Huckabee Attacking Reaganonomics:

I suppose that it is true that some people simply cannot handle success! Since his sudden rise in the polls and becoming a new "front runner," Mike Huckabee has made misstep after misstep. His record on pardons as governor of Arkansas is shameful, his attack on Rush Limbaugh as a mouthpiece for the Beltway was puzzling, and now he seems to think that supply side economics represents greed. This guy just doesn't know when to quit, does he?

There was a time when I was intrigued by Huckabee and his promise, but as I looked into his record I had to back away from him. It seems now that Huckabee is trying to drive supporters away...and he may end up doing a very good job of that. If he wants to get back in the good graces of the GOP conservative base, he has, as Ricky Ricardo used to say, "a lot of 'splainin to do!"
-- Eric Edwards
Walnut Cove, North Carolina

Please tell me; was Mr. Lord born yesterday?

Huckabee has been making these socialistic class-warfare comments since he began his run for the presidency (and probably long before although nobody noticed or cared).

It is amazing that this has only now come to Mr. Lord's attention.
-- Les Arbo
Daphne, Alabama

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