My column is your column . . .
Mr. Mariotti:
The media should be ashamed for some of their initial judgmentsand reports in the James Jordan murder case. The day Mr. Jordan wasreported missing, I turned on the radio to hear a talk-show hostmaking all sorts of screaming accusations. The media are becomingless credible by the day.
Roger Paste
Chicago
Don't know who you're tuned to, Roger, but most local mediahandled the story sensitively and responsibly. Michael Jordan shouldknow that, too.
Mr. Mariotti:
The reason people choose Wrigley over Comiskey is because theyare not interested in baseball. They are mainly interested indrinking beer, finding a partner for a one-night stand and listeningto a has-been announcer slur the names of the players and forget whatinning it is.
Marge Allese
Lake Bluff
A frat house, you're saying. Phi Harry Caray.
Jay:
I wish someone would take on and tell off the Jerry Reinsdorfbackers who serve as apologists for the new Comiskey Park. The upperdeck begins 60 feet behind where the original Comiskey upper deckbegan, and it ends 106 feet behind where the original ended. Andit's as high as the top of the light standards that were on the roofof the real Comiskey Park.
The place is a shopping mall, sky deck, air drome andobservatory wrapped around a playing field. Reinsdorf and EddieEinhorn have embittered me and made it impossible to ever enjoyanything at the new park.
John E. Aranza
Chicago
A left hook.
Mr. Mariotti: I attend approximately 20 games a year at Comiskey Park and alwayssit in the lower deck because seats in the upper deck of theReinsdorf Amusement Palace are generally worthless for watchingbaseball. When I attended a game recently, I was told all lower-deckseating was gone and was offered an upper-deck box seat. Naturally,I assumed a box seat meant a very good seat, and I paid the $12 basedon that assumption.
The so-called box seat was a big joke. I was so far away,following the ball was impossible. I might as well have been sittingin a lawn chair outside the park. I have been a lifelong Sox fan, asmy father was before me. But now I understand that under the presentmanagement, the game and the Sox fans are secondary. Greed is thename of the new game at Comiskey. From now on, I will use my $12 toattend games at Wrigley and in Milwaukee.
Peter J. Kane
South Bend,Ind.
A right uppercut.
Mr. Mariotti:
Your column on Comiskey Park was great. No other sportswriterhas the guts to ridicule how bad the place was built. Last year, theSkokie Park District had White Sox tickets for seniors. We sat inthe last row of the top tier. Some seniors couldn't make it all theway up. We were so high up, the ballplayers looked like LittleLeaguers.
Alvin Lee
Skokie
Reinsdorf down for the count.
Dear Mr. Mariotti:
Once upon a time, there were two little boys playing together.Nolan hit Robin with his ball. Robin got very angry and chased afterhim. Nolan, instead of trying to apologize and calm Robin down, hithim again and again. Before you knew it, a fight broke out involvingall the other little children.
It's unfortunate that the violence present in our society isexhibited on the back page of this newspaper.
Roxanne Engel
Orland Park
Which one got a spanking?
Jay Mariotti:
Chicago radio listeners are being subjected to a misfit whoseems to be solely dedicated to irritating listeners to the point ofswitching stations - one Mike North. Why would (WSCR-AM) viciouslyfoster this self-serving, arrogant, egotistical, overbearing, pseudo-omnipotentstudy on us? Perhaps if he learned to breath properly, giving hismouth a rest on the upswing, he'd be able to hear and understand acaller's point of view. I thought that's what talk shows were for.
Stuart L. Rudy
Niles
Stu, you need to upgrade your quality of life.
Dear Mr. Mariotti:
I am a 68-year-old retired person who does unusual and difficulttricks. I have done 1,000 one-armed situps in one hour, 30 minutes.This is not a world record, but it may be for a person my age. Ican do 70 two-armed pushups on the back of my hands - not on thepalm, which is the natural way.
I would be willing to perform anywhere. Right now, I have donethese tricks at many different bars in my neighborhood when someonechallenges me. About the only thing I get now is a few drinks. Iwould be willing to do these tricks at halftime shows or for anyonewho wants. I practice every morning at Calumet Park.
Frank Bryak
Chicago
Book him at Soldier Field and make the Bears the halftime show.
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