...hey, it's the Jesse Ventura syndrome at it's almost worst as I see it.

-- Vern (bacon17@ibm.net), December 23, 1999

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Bread and circuses.

-- Ron Schwarz (rs@clubvb.com.delete.this), December 23, 1999.

i think as of today (12/23) the 1st amendment has not been suspended, so his comments, stupid as they may be, are allowed.

-- theletterz (theletterz@yahoo.com), December 23, 1999.

Much truth, some bigotry, free speech at work. Of course, the PC crowd will crap their pants over this. I wonder if he would have said that conservatives want to poison the water and watch children and the elderly die, if that would have created a stink. NOT.

-- enough is (enough@enough.com), December 23, 1999.

Er, what's the story?

-- Servant (public_service@yahoo.com), December 23, 1999.

Who cares what a baseball player says. He's just a baseball player. Society has elevated idiots to Gods in the name of celebrity. Days to one of the most significant events in history and John Rocker is news?

-- PJC (paulchri@msn.com), December 23, 1999.

I don't necessarily agree with the guy, but isn't it refreshing to hear someone not afraid to speak what's on their mind; and in the national press to boot? I get so tired of hearing the antiseptic and woefully bland rhetoric that passes for speech from those who are afraid of offending anyone.

-- TM (mercier7@pdnt.com), December 23, 1999.