Re: Kidd speaks

["Jim Meninno" <goceltics2002@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

----- Original Message ----- From: "bird" <birdwl@earthlink.net>

>  I mean, ok, she's an adult and in a
> hostile environment, but Kidd's ...uh... kid is very small.  Plus, they're
> both entitled to watch the game in relative peace.  People either need to
> drink less alcohol or become more respectful to other people, or both.

Are they?  It's been a long time since I've been to an NBA playoff game,
but, if I remember the atmosphere correctly, it's not a place I'd bring a
three year old child.  People go to these games and they drink and they yell
nasty things and they sometimes push each other around a little bit.  It's
sports, it's not going to the movies.  Now, if some people were directing
comments at the Kidds, and I have no doubt they were, that's idiotic.  It
doesn't rise to the level of, say, beating your wife, no matter how contrite
you are afterwards, but it is wrong.  But to say that you should be able to
bring your three year old to the game in peace, well I think the three year
olds have enough places they can go.  Let them go to Chuck E. Cheese, but
please leave playoff basketball for the adults.  It's about all we've got
left.

Jim

P.S. This might fall under the category of "blaming the victim", but if
Jason Kidd weren't exploiting his child in a shameless attempt to rescue his
own image, would anyone have even known who the boy was?   And, for those of
you with wives who might be casually intersted in how you've been spending
the month of May, if they happen to ask, "why are they booing that guy with
the ball?"  Answer, "well, he's really good, but he got traded to the Nets
because he beat his wife once, but he's really sorry now," and see how much
sympathy he gets.