RE: Kenny--still out of touch

["Berry, Mark S" <berrym@BATTELLE.ORG>]

You're right. I regretted posting that as soon as I clicked "send." I let my
lingering feelings for Kenny get in the way of what he's doing-helping, no
matter how small the gesture. I apologize.

Mark

 -----Original Message-----
From: 	I am. . . Anonymous [mailto:ktoreed@yahoo.com] 
Sent:	Tuesday, October 02, 2001 5:48 PM
To:	Berry, Mark  S; 'celtics@igtc.com'
Subject:	Re: Kenny--still out of touch

I think you may be being a bit harsh and unfair to
Kenny.  At least he helped.  I mean, since Kenny makes
7 million a year he's obligated to give 10% of his
salary?  Lets see this country's real capitalists and
imperialists donate a significant portion of their
salary first.  Then we can legitimately start
isolating underachieving overpaid self-centered point
guards for criticism.  

--- "Berry, Mark  S" <berrym@BATTELLE.ORG> wrote:
> Maybe I'm way off base here, but was anyone else
> less than moved by Kenny's
> gesture toward the Sept. 11 tragedy. In case you
> missed it, he donated
> $5,000 and is pledging $50 for every assist.
> 
> Far be it from me to tell someone how to spend their
> money, but this guy
> makes $7 million a year. He joked about "selling one
> of his cars" during the
> lockout. Doesn't his gesture seem a little, I don't
> know... hollow? I mean,
> this is a guy who could really do something
> substantial, yet this comes
> across kind of cheap. Am I wrong?
> 
> I watched staff where I work-people who make a tiny
> fraction of what Kenny
> makes-donate thousands of dollars. One man here gave
> a check for $1,000-a
> huge sum for him and his family. That's about 1/50th
> of his annual salary.
> Kenny's $5,000 donation is 1/1,400th of his. Even if
> Kenny dishes out 500
> assists (highly unlikely) we're still only talking
> about 1/233rd of his
> salary.
> 
> The people here raised $12,000 in a week's time, and
> these are average,
> working people with families at home. Many baseball
> teams-entire
> organizations-donated a day's pay. That included the
> traveling secretary as
> well as the Ken Griffey Jr.'s of the world. Hundreds
> of thousands of
> dollars.
> 
> I don't know, it just didn't sit well with me. Maybe
> it's my bias against
> Kenny showing through, but it seemed much more like
> a grandstand move than
> any kind of substantial show of support.
> 
> Mark
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