FanSpeak

A tie wasn't fair

ABOUT THE All-Star Game: I see where the commissioner had his doubts about players being able to pitch but he had starting pitchers that could go eight or nine innings. I think he should have let the game to continue. I thought it was unfair to the fans for them not to be able to see the game completion, not a tied score. I think he was wrong in making the decision he made.

Get Whitlock outta there

UNLIKE SOME callers, I can tolerate the daily deluge of conservative, right-wing propaganda spewing from the Opinion page of the Southeast Missourian. I can stomach letters to the editor from Libertarians, single issue zealots and assorted cranks. I can even put up with the ever-increasing, woefully wrongheaded reprints from the Wall Street Journal. But I draw the line when you despoil the sports page with a pro-Sammy Sosa spiel from witless Jason Whitlock of the Kansas City Star coupled with a Whitlockian cheap shot at Mark McGwire. Whatever Southeast Missourian operative made the decision to go with Whitlock needs to be exiled to Kansas City and spend the next 60 years filing reports to the Southeast Missourian on the hapless condition of their inner city schools.

Fans need to calm down

I'M CALLING in response to the changes after the All-Star game. I think that this is ridiculous. If these people were stupid enough to pay $175 for a ticket to an All-Star game in the first place, you have to question their mind. Secondly, if they really cared about the players and their teams, they would have wanted the boys to go out and play their two innings or more and then stop. It doesn't matter who won the game anyway. It's just an exhibition game for the top players to show off their stuff. That was done. Let these guys have a little rest before they go back to their regular season. I don't know why everybody's so up in arms. They just need to relax about and Bud Seilig needs to do the same.

Here's the real problem

I HAVE four children who are either in or out of Cape public schools and I can tell you those of you who are complaining about politics in baseball, politics is part of life. It doesn't happen just in baseball. It's rampant in soccer. It's rampant in academics. It's everywhere. And why? Because adults have set the world up that way. When your children were little, you wanted certain kids to play with them, but not other kids because the kids you wanted them to play with were from the right family or had the right connections or were good at things. Your church has politics. Your social group has politics. Get over it. Teach your child how to deal with it and how to work with the system. And those of you who are doing all of the complaining, how much volunteer time do you give up? Baseball's not the problem. The problem is the parents in the chairs complaining.

Thanks, youth coaches

I WOULD like to thank the youth baseball league in Cape on the fine job that was done for the boys during the season. I would also like to thank the other coaches for volunteering. I would like to know what happened to the tournament that the league mentioned that they might have at the end of the season. My son and the rest of the boys on his team were looking forward to having a post season tournament. Also, thank you to my son's youth baseball league coach for stepping up to the plate and offering to take some of the boys from the Cape league and having them play in the Jackson tournament.

Congrats, Yankees

I WOULD like to tip my hat to the Cape Yankees for winning the Pop's Pizza Firecracker Tournament by beating Dexter because any team that would run up a score of 31-1 like Dexter did to Scott City does not deserve to win. I am a parent who has a son that plays on the Cape Athletics.