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Rodriguez has put another big
black eye on game of baseball
What - are professional baseball pened to players like Mark;. McOwire
players doing to their fans? Are -they and Sammy Sosa. They have hall of
trying to ruin the spirit of the game? I fame numbers, but they might not
for one love baseball and things like make the hall because of their sup -
the BALCO case and the Mitchell posed cheating ways.
report keep making me second Rodriguez has admitted to
guess my love for the sport. using: drug and I guess.he
The recent black eye to baseball it will be ` forgotten somewhat
is the admittance of Alex x� k: like it was for -former teammates
Rodriguez that he took perform- Andy Pettitte and Jason Giambi.
- ance enhancing drugs during his This will not be ,forgotten
time with the Texas Rangers,_:.._ g
g ;, because Rodriguez is base
between 2001-2003. The ball's highest profile player.
final year of his time in T dont even think New
Texas, Rodriguez was _ York Yankee_fans will for -
named the AL MVP.•
1 � '� give their:man for taking the
Rodriguez is considered the easy Way : out as: far as PEDs
best player in the game today and he is
now the -poster boy for the steroids era ` just
Y .this: will give all of the
of Major League baseball. He referred la ers in the
p , y league the example:that
to the time he t PEDs as the using PEDs is no longer the culture of
culture of the time d • that he was baseball.
under a lot of pressure to be the great- Thebest player in s the league . got.
est. caught and things hopefully can't et
He has to be accountable to his fans, any worse. •
which he did in his recent interview, ,
If players .want- their � fans - to � keep
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but it's still _under the stain of his loving the arm
� + game, will have to
betrayal. In the past he ,has stated that start being honest and morally incur-
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he never used PEDs and now that he ru .t.
has admitted to it, how is anyone sups Treat the fans with some respect.ct.
posed to trust him.. The game qf= baseball is for everyone.one
Rodriguez is only a few hundred and it's not about the all mighty dollar
homeruns off controversial homerun or cementing one's legacy. -
king Barry ponds. Players will never be bi gg thaner t an
the game and they have to understand
that.
If things getany worse they may
soon find out that without any fans ` to
support them, those dollars will disap-
pear and no one will care about who
was the greatest.
A lot of people still consider Hank
Aaron to be homerun king because he
did it clean.
How will Rodriguez's numbers hold
up ` when: he finishes his career? Will
they be accepted? `•
We have already seen what has hap=
:moirsSen
,(Q years ogo - February 17. 1999
- Former clerk treasurer of Lucknow Bertha Whitcroft started
work as an assistant to the late Alf Herbert, who was clerk treas-
urer in 1977 Prior to her employment by the local municipal
government, she worked as office manager at the Lucknow fur-
niture factory from 1963 to 1972.
From assistant she progressed to deputy clerk and it was dur-
ing this time that she obtained her designation from the
Association of Municipal :Clerk Treasurers.
- Huron -Kinloss Kinloss council had .a special meeting on Monday,
Feb. 8 to discuss the a township's plans concerning a nutrient
management bylaw.' The bylaw is what some farmers will have
to follow when spreading or storing manure.
20 years ago - Fefrragry 15, J9.89
- Once again vandalism has reared its(ugly head in Lucknow
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Employees of the Lucknow Post Office and : box holders have
ted to a
been sub' '
v
strong odour in the building
� !�the last few
weeks. Someone with a sick sense of humour
poured ammonia under the large mats in the lobby.
- Some Dungannon residents are readyto: love into a pro-
posed . pra
posed seniors' apartment complex the minute it's built, says the
president of the grouphing the project.
- The survey being conducted by the Lucknow and District
Lions Club, regarding transportation needs of seniors and the
physically handicapped, has drawn a poor response. The 1985
census figures for the village recorded 456 residents over the
age of 60 To date, 17 replies have been received' by the Lions
Club.
50 years 010 - February O. 195$
- At a special meeting of Kinloss _ TownshiP Council on
Monday Feb. 16 it Was decided to hold a public meetingit the
Iolyrood Township Hall
The purpose of the meeting is to learn the wishes of Kinloss
'Township farmers regarding the vaccination of cattle against
rabies before they are put out on grass this spring,
With the future of the Lucknow and District Branch of the
Red Cross at stake; nine persons attended the Thursday Feb. 12
meeting. L.C. Thompson was named chairman of the meeting.
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:Ripley and
Lucknow Fire
Departments were
called to a large
barn fire on the
farm of John
McIntosh of Huron
Township, Highway
86, west of
Lucknow, Friday
Jan. 27, 1989. (File
Photo)