2008 Woodie Awards
Letters to the editor
Issue date: 4/9/08 Section: Opinion
Pohlman's column ridiculous
This is ridiculous. Just ridiculous. After reading Bart Pohlman's most recent opinion article I had to stop myself and ask: why does he have an opinion article?
How many kids play baseball in elementary school? How many of those keep playing into high school? A fraction of those go on to college ball.
And a small portion of college players make it to pro sports. So, if you want to know why one of the best players in the world of athletics gets paid more than the average person, take an intro to economics course.
Pro athletes get paid what they do because they are talented and have worked hard - neither of which is evidenced of you in your writing.
More importantly, they directly affect the revenue that supports those salaries (ie, they earn it!). If you don't like it, stop watching sports (that's where they get their money).
The only person that gets hurt by athletes' salaries, as far as I can tell, is me, because those salaries gave Bart another idea for another poorly written article and consequently tainted the peaceful cogency of my morning news.
Jonathan Akins
Junior
Economics and Finance
No endorsements is the way to go
I would just like to thank the Traveler for agreeing with me that "misguided fools" should not be allowed to vote.
People who are uninformed in their decisions or would vote based upon some marginal aspect of a candidate should have their votes taken away from them.
Better yet, those votes should be given to me or an informed member of the Traveler editorial board. Every smart and informed person, based upon the degree of their smartness and attained information, would be assigned a certain amount of misguided fools so that he could vote for them.
It would be like old times; you know, when tenant farmers had to vote the way their landlord did or else they lost their job.
Sam Hall
Junior
Political Science
This is ridiculous. Just ridiculous. After reading Bart Pohlman's most recent opinion article I had to stop myself and ask: why does he have an opinion article?
How many kids play baseball in elementary school? How many of those keep playing into high school? A fraction of those go on to college ball.
And a small portion of college players make it to pro sports. So, if you want to know why one of the best players in the world of athletics gets paid more than the average person, take an intro to economics course.
Pro athletes get paid what they do because they are talented and have worked hard - neither of which is evidenced of you in your writing.
More importantly, they directly affect the revenue that supports those salaries (ie, they earn it!). If you don't like it, stop watching sports (that's where they get their money).
The only person that gets hurt by athletes' salaries, as far as I can tell, is me, because those salaries gave Bart another idea for another poorly written article and consequently tainted the peaceful cogency of my morning news.
Jonathan Akins
Junior
Economics and Finance
No endorsements is the way to go
I would just like to thank the Traveler for agreeing with me that "misguided fools" should not be allowed to vote.
People who are uninformed in their decisions or would vote based upon some marginal aspect of a candidate should have their votes taken away from them.
Better yet, those votes should be given to me or an informed member of the Traveler editorial board. Every smart and informed person, based upon the degree of their smartness and attained information, would be assigned a certain amount of misguided fools so that he could vote for them.
It would be like old times; you know, when tenant farmers had to vote the way their landlord did or else they lost their job.
Sam Hall
Junior
Political Science
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B-man
posted 4/09/08 @ 8:59 AM CST
In regards to the comments on Pohlman, the Traveler should have weeded you out, you go too much into personal attack for print. And he isn't even the whack job there, Tomlinson is. (Continued…)
Deena
posted 4/10/08 @ 12:02 PM CST
There are plenty of athletes with pro aspirations that at least have the opportunity for a "Plan B." This is considering that most athletes do go to college at some point and actually have to take classes. (Continued…)
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