Re: Was... Now Kidd ,Battie, Herren.

[bird <birdw@teleport.com>]

>From: Jim Hill <jahill@leasingservice.com>
>
>I am. . . Anonymous  made the statement:
>>The fans at the Fleet Center should NOT have boo'd
>>Jason Kidd like that.  At least those drunk morons
>>weren't booing their own home team, but I thought
>>booing Kidd was inappropriate.  Stupid fans.
>
>At first, that's what I thought.
>
>But then I thought, "Tough".  Don't beat your wife, don't get boo'd.
>
>I don't want my kid's to emulate or respect a "bad person".  If booing
>drives these guys out of pro sports or makes them lose their ad revenues, I
>don't care.

Hi Jim, I understand your point of view, but it all boils down to the 
fact that you seem to want kids in general to emulate pro atheletes. 
I wouldn't want kids to do that, at all.  If they need "role models", 
what's the matter with their parents, or teachers, or major (or even 
minor) figures in history (like Einstein, Martin Luther King, Gandhi, 
et al.)?  Seems to me that there are a lot more deserving people to 
emulate than a pro athelete.  I concur with Charles Barkley in his 
famous statement about being a role model.  Maybe atheletes could be 
role models for sports (and not their private lives), and in that 
sense, Jason Kidd is an excellant role model for basketball players.

To me, what happened between Kidd and his wife is between Kidd and 
his wife, and those people who need to get involved (i.e. the police 
who took her statement, attorneys, the presiding judge, and the 
like).  It's none of my business.  If it's true, does it make Kidd a 
bad person?  Not necessarily.  People make mistakes.

I think fans ought to boo opposing playes, when it's a all-in-fun 
sports-oriented thing, like booing the Knicks, the 80's Pistons, the 
Lakers -- you know, because they're the opposing team and one is 
supposed to boo them, and cheer for the home team.  The systematic 
booing of a player, I think, is inappropriate, unless, of course, he 
got into a fight with one of our players, said nasty things about the 
Celts in the papers, or some such.  Sports-related, in other words.

Regards,

Bill, Celtic "Tird"