-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 09 November 2001 03:42 pm, Mark Wilde wrote: > i heard paul wellstone on the radio talking about > busting up there anti-competitive monopoly, and i hope > something comes of it.
Personally I hope the senator does something more worthwhile with his time than spend a bunch of time placating MN sports fans with a lot of hot air right before his reelection run. I went to baseball games as a kid. I played in little league. I worked at the Dome as a teenager (during a world series game even). I like baseball games just fine-- I've enjoyed a lot the minor league games I've been to in St. Paul and elsewhere. I even took my daughter to a Twins game at the Dome this summer. Baseball *is* fun to play and watch. But I'm sorry. Major league baseball has been abusing its fans for quite some time. Now, on the stadium issues, they'd like to abuse the taxpayers. I think I saw a letter in the Strib, something about telling the kids who live here now that might grow up to be Major League Players someday how we're sorry for letting their team get away. Tell that to my daughter. Her chances of playing baseball appeared to be zero even before the team left (assuming they are leaving), judging by the number of women in pro ball. Ditto football. Ditto hockey. There is no Title IX for pro sports, and I think fielding an all-male team smacks of discrimination just as much as fielding an all-white team. A separate women's league would at least be a start. At least subsidies for businesses like Target or the arts offer girls and women an equal chance to participate as something other than consumers. It's hard to get behind businesses like the Twins, when they've treated their public the way they have, and when it's really a boy's club anyway. Let them go, I say. Well, I didn't mean to go off on a rant like that. But there you have it. :) - -Michael Libby (Cleveland/North Side) - -- ===================================================== | My Public Key available from: keys.pgp.com | or http://www.ichimunki.com/public.key | | Its Fingerprint | D946 FE20 79EE 2109 161B FAFB E029 56F4 A330 AA73 ===================================================== -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE77G3i4ClW9KMwqnMRAsBCAJ9rDljrZ/G1gKG2PsV+8YkkQGyIqgCgoGMg mYgvWELU2LEYBhpewP7GkUc= =HoWg -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A Civil City Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest option, and more: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
