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Spokane, Washington  Est. May 19, 1883

Letters To The Editor

M’s broadcasters a big hit

In response to “M’s broadcasting distracting” (Letters, July 27):

Your comments, Mr. Thomas, are an insult to and a cheap shot at a first-class Mariners broadcast team. Dave Niehaus, Ron Fairly and Rick Rizzs are Seattle Mariners baseball. Exciting, entertaining and on top of the game at all times.

If crowd noise is “monotonous and distracting” to you, I suggest you not attend a Seattle Mariners game in the Kingdome either. The fever is catching!!

Fly, fly away, Mr. Thomas. My, oh my. GO MARINERS!! Ginny Bush Colfax, Wash.

Tiger Woods is a big goof

Has anyone else out there grown weary of the Tiger Woods phenomena besides me? You would think this kid was God himself, evidenced by his frequency on the covers of magazines, pictures in the newspaper and commercials on television. I hate to sound like a jerk, and Tiger seems like a nice clean-cut young man, but he’s a 21-year-old multi-millionaire who plays goof, uh… golf! An elitist sport, to be sure, whose successful professional members are composed mostly of poor little rich kids from birth who’ve never put in a hard day’s work in their lives. Mark Twain said it best when he described the sport as “A good walk spoiled”! There is no doubt!!

Now that I’ve alienated all the goofers out there (sorry), let’s all get on the bandwagon and find a new hero whose claim to fame incorporates a resume a bit more substantial than chasing a little white ball around a golf course, and securing many millions of dollars by wearing a Nike hat everywhere he goes. Gimmie a break! Tad Farley Spokane

Column on Woods trashy

Michelle Kaufman (commentary on Tiger Woods, July 24) is not reporting news, she is raising a stink simply to be raising a stink.

As she declares, it is none of her business if Lochinvar Country Club does not allow the female sex. It is also none of her business if the Boy Scouts do not allow girls in their den and vice versa. Nor is it any of her business if fraternities and sororities outlaw the opposite sex.

To try to tie all this into anti-black or anti-Jew or anti-Greek or anti-Finnish is stupid, irrational, inane and highly biased.

If the public is to judge a newspaper by its content, then, in my opinion, The Spokesman-Review is becoming trashy. Is it your job to report the news or to attempt to brainwash and condition the minds of your readers? Earl G. Fox Spokane