A.J.s Take

According to ABCNews.com, 1,400 college students are killed each year, on average, in alcohol related accidents ( See: ABC News Story ). That number alone is greater then the 1,188 American Troop deaths in Iraq (as of Oct. 2006) since the beginning of 2005 according to ( http://www.antiwar.com/ ). Not to mention the 500,000 other students who were injured, and 70,000 woman who were victims of date rape as a result of alcohol! ( ABCNews.com ). So why are citizens and parents of this country so quick to judge our government for getting us into a war they do not agree with, while about 48% of their kids in college are participating in equally dangerous behavior every weekend? ( ABCNews.com ). Granted, there are organizations set up to stop this kind of behavior ( See: MVParents.com ), but for many students, and even parents, underage binge drinking has become an accepted part of our culture. The question has to be asked, why are we so quick to speak out against a war in which, at the bar...

For all of those quote "experts" out there who criticized baseball for maintaining a system which allowed big market teams like the Yankees and the Red Sox to spend astronomical amounts of money on players, thus giving them the best chance of making it to the World Series, this is your year. According to those same experts the problem with baseball was that it wasn't interesting enough to watch the big market teams like the Yankees and Red Sox battle it out every year. They called for more parity, equal spending from all teams and preached that as the key to increasing interest in baseball. Well look now. After a year with more parity in baseball then at any time in the last decade the viewers aren't tuning in. The past two years, the World Series has received lower ratings then any other in history, and not just by a little. Statistics show tv ratings for the 2004 World Series featuring the Boston Red Sox and the St. Louis Cardinals rated over 4 points higher then th...