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LETTER OF THE WEEK

It seems to me that the problem with team orders is in the first word: Team. The moment NHRA decided to let one person own more then one car per class, they made drag racing into a team sport.

If you're watching a baseball game and someone sacrifice bunts to advance a runner, do you get outraged over the obvious team order? After all, if competition is all that matters, they should have swung for all they were worth.

You can't have it both ways. Either you're a team sport and therefore compete as a team, even if that means advancing a teammate at your own expense, or you're a solo sport, in which case owning multiple entries is a conflict of interest.

Pick one.

Molly Ashby

Say it ain’t so!

Burkster, I really don't believe you think this; that the Force-Pedregon square off, can in any way enhance the motorsport you love. Your tongue is firmly planted in cheek, right? You don't really think ESPN is suddenly a more valid entity because the ball and stick guys apparently took a few minutes to talk about St. John Force and his former worthy underling? I mean, I know you complimented ESPN on their recent coverage of the event, but this, really? You're not really suggesting that all the overlooked and invisible coverage of the guys thrashing in the pits and the unheralded racers - from the youngest Lagana to the Golden Greek - can now be vindicated by a Jerry Springer Show incident, right? This isn't really your, "at last!", correct?

I have zero tolerance for NASCAR, so understand my ignorance. But I believe this: They grew their motorsport's massive paw not by fisticuffs; hell, most young shit-kickers don't even know who those old cats were, but by marketing and burrowing into places far from North Carolina, even when 88% of the teams were from the Tar Heel State.

St. John Force, according to your epistle in regards to his possibly "taking a dive" tells me much about St. John when you write he is a fan of "John Wayne".... You mean Marion Morrison. I'm a little disappointed St. John doesn't know a little more about his long dead idol. If anyone was capable of being disingenuous, Marion would be it. A poser of the first degree. Made War movies and raked in huge bucks, but when it came time for conscription in WWII, Marion begged off. He had a family, no war for him. That should be enough, but Marion was also a snitch, red baiting and outing actors and actresses he was certain were commies.   Marion dove just like St. John, just another variation.

So, a tempest in a teapot, but a little girl's teapot, on a Kenner Easybake Oven.

Richard Gebhart
Marine City, Michigan