SportsAugust 5, 2007
Fan Speak 8/5/07
Nuts for Squirrels; Ditto; Name caller; Weaver dreamin'; Run-around; Longer season
Nuts for Squirrels
THE CHARLESTON Squirrels won second place at the Senior Babe Ruth regional in Williston, N.D. Your paper has not written anything about it at all. My grandson was on the team, and friends and relatives have questioned me about how they finished since your paper has not mentioned them. Please mention them in a future account.
Ditto
I WAS wondering why the Southeast Missourian never prints anything about the Charleston baseball team. I'm interested, I get the Southeast Missourian all the time and I haven't seen hardly anything about Charleston.
(Charleston is outside the Southeast Missourian coverage area for sports, and the Fighting Squirrels were covered by the Sikeston newspaper, with accounts also available at Semoball.com. The team did feature three players with area ties -- Oran graduate Paul Bucher, Dallas Tew from Kelly and Mark Freed from Scott County Central. Matt Bucher was an assistant coach.)
Name caller
I SEE where Barry Bonds called Bob Costas a midget for comments on Costas' HBO show about Bonds and steroids. Bob Costas is a giant personality; Barry Bonds is not. You don't measure a man by his height. We're all not born with God-given talents to play professional baseball nor do we have a father play in the game, as Bonds did. San Francisco may love Bonds, but the rest of us with any brain at all know the truth.
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Weaver dreamin'
AT 2-10 and a 6.23 ERA with the Seattle Mariners this year, would Jeff Weaver have been smarter to stick with Dave Duncan and the Cardinals?
Run-around
I MADE four phone calls to the Southeast Missourian trying to report the championship game of the Cape 10-year-old all-stars playing in Scottsbluff, Neb. They won the state of Missouri championship, and they went to the regionals, which is seven state winners and the host team, and I've been calling the sports department every game that they played to report the progress. I made four phone calls from noon to 12:25 p.m. trying to leave a message on the championship game that just was completed but I was given the run-around. No one would talk to me. There was no one in the sports department. You guys are missing a pretty good story, and I'm not going to tell the results but it was good. Chances are this won't make the paper anyway.
(Thanks for your efforts in getting the information to us. Generally, the Southeast Missourian sports staff is in the office from 3 p.m. until midnight. With youth baseball in out-of-town tournaments such as Cal Ripken and Babe Ruth, results are published in the Area digest. The Cape Girardeau 10-year-olds won the regional and qualified for the Cal Ripken World Series, which begins later this week in Vincennes, Ind. The team will be featured this week, and we also will have information about two Scott County teams that qualified for World Series tournaments in the same organization; just as we featured the Heartland Nationals Babe Ruth softball team last week.)
Longer season
CONGRATULATIONS TO the 10-year-old all-star team from Cape Girardeau that made it to the Cal Ripken World Series this year. That's a good accomplishment, but it's a shame that the other kids in that same league got shorted this year and only got to play 12 games during the regular season. I think something should be done about this. I think the season should have more games for the kids in the regular league, not just the all-stars.
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