Letters to the Green: Food for thought on Jolly ol' grub

Tag : green food

(07-26) 17:11 PDT -- Editor - I really took exception to Ron Kroichick's articleabout the English food while he was covering the Open GolfChampionship at Royal Birkdale, even though he said it was "all ingood fun." It still gives people who have never been to England thewrong impression.
I am English and have just come over to settle here in California.I used to live in Formby, a small town a few miles from RoyalBirkdale and I used to eat out a lot. I don't know where he and hiscolleagues went to eat but there are a great number of excellentrestaurants, hotels and golf clubs in that area serving good food.
I am still trying to come to terms with American food (is thisAmerica or Mexico? No, it's California) - but this is my home nowand I love it so I am not complaining. I am sorry that RonKroichick was not as generous.
ANNE McGREEVY
Santa Rosa A bad rule
Editor - I consider the disqualification of Michelle Wie in therecent LPGA tournament totally slimy and unprofessional afterallowing her to play an 18-hole round. Some of the rules of golfare beyond reason.
FLOREEN BORDER
Via e-mail Medal madness
Editor - The Olympics. Isn't this the time when American athleteswho don't or can't make the U.S. team research their family treeand discover they are one-sixteenth Mauritanian? If they should wina medal in shuffleboard, er, curling, they get to stand on thepodium in front of a flag they have never seen and if they finishfirst they listen to an anthem they have never heard before. TheOlympic ideal, no?
STEVE GEHRE
San Mateo A fan no more
Editor - Now the A's are getting rid of another top pitcher, JoeBlanton. On a regular basis, general manager Billy Beane gets ridof top A's talent in exchange for minor league players. At the sametime, owner Lew Wolfe and Beane talk of the lack of attendance forA's home games.
The reason for the lack of interest in attending A's game isbecause we fans never have familiar players to cheer! All ourfavorite players are traded, or soon will be.
I've attended my last A's game and I'll be glad to get rid of theteam to Fremont.
STAN LICHTENSTEIN
Alameda A good example
Editor - One of the brightest spots of this year's All-Star Gamewas seeing Derek Jeter signing autographs for kids in the 14thinning. He was taken out of the game in the sixth inning but stayedaround for the entire game, standing at the rail of the dugout andthen signing autographs.
Where was Alex Rodriquez? No where to be seen. Dressed and gone assoon as he was taken out of the game in an All-Star Game beingplayed at his home field.
Last year at his home field, Barry Bonds did the same thing. Afterplaying just a few innings, he left the game and the stadium wellbefore the game was over.
And, by the way, neither player cared enough to participate in theHome Run Derby in front of their hometown fans.
Guys like Alex Rodriquez and Barry Bonds just don't get it.Baseball is all about the fans, not the players' inflated egos.
BUD McNAUGHTON
Concord
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