Baseball Hall of Fame needs to check its gambling hypocrisy (Letters)
Hall requirements to check its hypocrisy Re Lifting Hall of Fame ban on Pete Rose Shoeless Joe came decades late May commentary I have long concluded that the Baseball Hall of Fame has excluded a number of outstanding players for arbitrary reasons Pete Rose is a notable example as pointed out in the commentary However there are several others and as a end I think the relevance of the Hall of Fame is diminished Rose s gambling violations had nothing to do with his performance as a player The fact is that he was one of the greatest hitters in history He exceeded Ty Cobb s record for career hits That should be enough to put him in the Hall It is sad that this didn t happen while he was alive Whatever you may think about Rose as a person clearly he should be celebrated in the Hall of Fame If they want to put a footnote on his plaque e g that he gambled when he was a manager that s fine but excluding him was inevitably phony And while they re at it add other outstanding players Barry Bonds Sammy Sosa Mark McGwire Roger Clemens Alex Rodriguez and Shoeless Joe Jackson to mention a sparse Without those names the Hall of Fame is a mockery If we re going to have character tests for entrance to the Hall we should eject certain players I would also like to point out the incredible hypocrisy of Major League Baseball regarding gambling They excluded Rose for gambling on his group to win but now a primary sponsor of MLB is the sports gambling industry Every time I see a gambling ad during a event I think about Pete If gambling is wrong for players it is wrong for MLB James W Craft Broomfield Shocking provision in budget bill Re Trump s clash with the courts raises prospect of showdown May news story Did I read this correctly In Monday s Denver Post buried more than paragraphs into the article The Associated Press Nicholas Riccardi writes The provision in the Republican budget bill would prohibit courts from enforcing contempt citations for violations of injunctions or temporary restraining orders the two main types of rulings used to rein in the Trump administration unless the plaintiffs have paid a bond I m no lawyer but I take this to mean that if the GOP-ruled Congress wants to pass a bill law that essentially allows them to do any illegal thing they want the courts would be virtually powerless to stop them If the authorities can violate the rule of law and the Constitution with impunity and flout any legal ruling without fear of restraint or consequence then it has ceased to be a authorities and has become a criminal enterprise Is this what the American people want Flint Whitlock Denver Cartoon spreads false narrative The cartoon on the May opinion page spreads a false narrative that Democrats want to free MS- gang members rapists and murderers Here s the truth Democrats protesting at the ICE facility in New Jersey did not demand that the regime free the immigrants detained there Democrats and other ethically-minded people exclusively want to have the Trump administration use due process to determine which detainees should be deported which should be tried for crimes and which have the right to remain in the USA Democrats are not clamoring to have gang members rapists and murderers turned loose Related Articles Keeler Nikola Jokic s championship window with Nuggets George Karl s got plan to save it Rockies future rests on foundation of Brenton Doyle Ezequiel Tovar and Michael Toglia Keeler CU Buffs QB Shedeur Sanders doesn t need to throw at NFL combine this week to prove he s better than Miami s Cam Ward Rockies Chase Dollander dazzles in Cactus League debut Don t ask Nikola Jokic about turning even if his encounter is aging like wine It makes me feel sad Democrats are opposed to the rendition of legal residents of the United States which seems to be the agenda of the Trump administration People like cartoonist Dana Summers are keen on spreading the lie that Democrats are pro-criminal and against law and order Of subject making them look unhinged in the cartoon only helps to widen the divide between MAGA and the rest of the political spectrum While Summers has the right to spew this propaganda I am disappointed to see The Post helping to spread it and further inflame this divisiveness Jay Miller Lafayette Sign up for Sound Off to get a weekly roundup of our columns editorials and more To send a letter to the editor about this article submit online or check out our guidelines for how to submit by email or mail
