Where’s my Major League Baseball?
I am writing to express my disappointment in the Reveille’s lack of coverage of the Major League Baseball playoffs.
I know that The Reveille is an LSU publication, and that its sportswriters by law must turn out at least fifty stories a day about the Tiger football team. I’m not saying this is a bad thing either.
But when professional baseball gives America the best postseason in recent memory I’d expect that someone at this paper would at least take notice.
Bryan Wideman did a great job in his Oct. 1 column detailing the Cubs and Red Sox woes and curses. Other readers and I eagerly awaited more stories chronicling the road to the World Series.
But surprisingly there were none.
I’ve yet to read a word in The Reveille about Boston’s dramatic comeback against the Oakland As.
I can’t find a sentence about the late-inning heroics of Sammy Sosa, David Ortiz, and LSU alum Todd Walker. Even worse, there’s not a paragraph to be found about a classic Yankees – Red Sox playoff series.
Wait, I’m not done yet. The Cinderella-story Florida Marlins refuse to die against the Cubs. Young pitchers like Mark Prior and Josh Beckett are pitching gems, while cagey veterans like Roger Clemens show they still have enough magic for one more day in the sun.
This paper has been given a golden opportunity to cover a once-in-a-lifetime Fall Classic.
Please don’t ignore it.
Elliott Brown
sophomore
mass communication
Referees plagued Tigers with bad calls
I would like to comment by saying, first of all, LSU by no means had their “A game” Saturday against Florida but the referees were assholes.
They did not call things that were blatantly obvious. For example, when Mauck got hit five seconds after he threw the ball, that should have been roughing the passer.
The referee standing right on top of it did not call it.
Or how about the Florida player that practally gift-wrapped the ball by setting it in bounds on the sideline BEFORE HE WAS DOWN.
In my book that is a fumble. Maybe it would not have made a difference in the game, but you can’t blame it all on the football team.
Rodney Bahm
freshman
mass communication