Comments on: Quit erecting statues of living people

By: nicosamuelson2

nicosamuelson2 — Thu, 03 May 2012 17:20:10 +0000

Colangelo needs to get in line. They haven’t even erected a statue for Steven Seagal yet!

By: foreverchipper10

foreverchipper10 — Thu, 03 May 2012 15:12:44 +0000

And it wasn’t about Vicente Padilla!

By: chumthumper

chumthumper — Thu, 03 May 2012 14:59:27 +0000

The U.S. is the most memorializing country in the world; we will erect a memorial to anything and everything. Eventually, they won’t mean anything, which is so sad for those things and people who should be remembered and honored.

By: brewcrewfan54

brewcrewfan54 — Wed, 02 May 2012 22:10:18 +0000

Sure I do. And they changed it. And if one of thee people end up dosgracing themselves they can melt that statue on down.

By: charlutes

charlutes — Wed, 02 May 2012 21:52:45 +0000

I enjoy your stance on Batman but you seem to get bent out of shape about everything.

By: Kevin S.

Kevin S. — Wed, 02 May 2012 21:18:28 +0000

Remember what the Stagg Championship Trophy awarded to the winner of the Big Ten was initially called?

By: brewcrewfan54

brewcrewfan54 — Wed, 02 May 2012 20:34:00 +0000

I don’t see the problem with honoring someone while they are alive so they can know their accomplishments didn’t go unnoticed. They can also celebrate the honor with their contemporaries instead of 20 years down the road when a bunch of people who never knew the person or didn’t know what he stood for celebrate it blindly.

By: iranuke

iranuke — Wed, 02 May 2012 20:24:19 +0000

You sound like a curmudgeon.

By: bloodysock

bloodysock — Wed, 02 May 2012 19:50:50 +0000

It’s already as hot as hell so what’s the difference?

By: Old Gator

Old Gator — Wed, 02 May 2012 19:07:01 +0000

As soon as east Marin Count tears down all its Francis Drake road signs.

By: Craig Calcaterra

Craig Calcaterra — Wed, 02 May 2012 19:04:21 +0000

Nope! It’s still outside the tower that bears his name. Used to walk by it every day on my into work. Singing Neil Young under my breath.

By: Loose Changeup

Loose Changeup — Wed, 02 May 2012 18:41:45 +0000

So I guess you’re not a fan of the new Frank Robinson statue at Camden Yards?

By: Detroit Michael

Detroit Michael — Wed, 02 May 2012 18:34:58 +0000

I figured that renaming Washington National airport after Ronald Reagan was even more inappropriate given how he handled (rightly or wrongly I’m not debating) the air traffic controllers strike during his presidency. That seemed rather partisan to me.

Keep the ballpark statues for the players unless a guy is universally beloved.

By: makeham98

makeham98 — Wed, 02 May 2012 18:34:25 +0000

Has Columbus torn down the statue of Jim Rhodes yet?

By: Old Gator

Old Gator — Wed, 02 May 2012 18:29:16 +0000

In ready supply…

Once again, damn to hell cellphone keypads.

And meerkats.

By: Old Gator

Old Gator — Wed, 02 May 2012 18:24:28 +0000

I would suggest – humbly, as always – that erecting statues to living people is the best possible way to accommodate them to the inevitability of being dead. I dare say that this is an even more effective therapy than, say, treating the terminally ill with Jungian analysis while on LSD, unlike which you merely require some money, a barely competent sculptor and a corrupt city council (all of which are unready supply), as opposed to a special dispensation from the FDA which can only be had at the pyrrhic emotional cost of intensive engagement with the Federal bureaucracy.

By: deathmonkey41

deathmonkey41 — Wed, 02 May 2012 18:14:35 +0000

Exactly- we should be erecting statues to Fred Berry instead!!!

By: Tim's Neighbor

Tim's Neighbor — Wed, 02 May 2012 18:13:43 +0000

It’s all those damn kids out there in Phoenix, a city known for their youthful exuberance. Those kids need to stay off Calcaterra’s lawn!

By: phukyouk

phukyouk — Wed, 02 May 2012 18:12:45 +0000

slow newsday or not you managed to get the word “erect” into a baseball blog.

By: nolanwiffle

nolanwiffle — Wed, 02 May 2012 18:10:39 +0000

Phoenix, you maniacs! Oh damn you……..goddamn you all to hell!