Wednesday, August 14, 2002

I agree with [Monroe Roark's column Aug. 7 about a potential baseball strike] 10-fold. It's like fighting the drug issue. The only way to fix the problem is to cut short the demand.

As long as the American public fraternizes these professional and college sports in droves, why should they fix anything? Both parties continue to get wealthy. When was the last time if ever that a professional athlete renegotiated for a bad performance?

What happens in the real world if anyone fails to perform their job to expectation of the employer? And by the way, who is the employer and who is the employee?

I remember hearing a comment from Jesse Ventura: If baseball is truly in the red, how can they continue to give the players raises? Maybe we as a country should investigate the "accounting practices" of the teams, players and their agents.

It's time for America to smell the roses and not enable this atrocity called Major League Baseball. I haven't purchased a ticket since the last strike and don't intend to in the near future.

Joseph Hajducko

jhajducko@printpack.com

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