-- And this girl has a song on a Disney soundtrack!
Multiple nominee Christina Aguilera arrives at the MTV Video Music Awards
at New York's Radio City Music Hall on Thursday. (AP Photo/Tina Fineberg)
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| Subject: Your piece in the Standard Times ... Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2003 From: John ______ <______@riverstonenet.com> To: jcouture at s-t dot com One thing I have to say is that if I were to hit only 5 numbers in the powerball once a week for a year, I would be ABSOLUTELY out of my mind thrilled to cash the consolation checks every week. You have to look at the bigger picture my friend. That's 5.2 Million bucks. That is all. |
| Subject: Pedro Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2003 From: M. <______@netzero.net> To: jcouture at s-t dot com YEAH!!!!! LOVE today's f---ing column. Wish someone would REALLY slap Pedro's ass. M. |
| Subject: Pedro Article Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2003 From: R J <______@hotmail.com> To: jcouture at s-t dot com Unless you are doctor, you have no right to question the health of another man. I'm embarrassed for you after reading that article. RJ |
| Subject: Get Over Yourself Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2003 From: Eric ____ <______@hotmail.com> To: jcouture at s-t dot com Willis Reed hobbled out in 1970, not '73; he played about 16 minutes in the game, if memory serves, scoring 4 points. And his problem wasn't his knee, but with a thigh muscle. Albert Pujols has missed the last several games with the flu. You should have stopped with "I'm no doctor." That would be about the only intelligent comment in your cloumn. As for a "real" doctor: "If he has an acute infection, he's probably so lethargic he wouldn't be able to pitch if he wanted to," Berke said. "His throat could be so sore, he can't drink and is dehydrated and could even need an IV." Martinez called the team's medical staff between 7 a.m. and 7:30 p.m. to report his condition. A member of the medical crew transported him about 8:30 a.m. to St. Elizabeth's Medical Center in Brighton, where he spent nearly six hours being examined by Morgan and undergoing tests, including an abdominal CAT-scan, which was negative, and an ultrasound test. The Sox said Martinez's white blood cell count was elevated. Martinez left the hospital about 2 p.m. Lemme guess, if he pitches, goes two innings and gets shelled, you write about how selfish he is. Eric ____ Exeter, NH |
| Subject: Excellent Article. Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2003 From: Person That I May Know <______@SLAC.Stanford.EDU> To: jcouture at s-t dot com I've long been intrigued by the specious reasons for baseball players to avoid playing. Roger Clemens blood blistered thumb (which could have been a decade ago now that I think about it..), players not playing because of a hairline fracture in their throwing hand pinkie, not playing in the rain ... etc. Silly baseball playing pansies. Great article. Good to see you're doing well professionally. -- Spaz |
| Subject: (no subject) Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2003 From: Person I May Work With <______@comcast.net> To: jcouture at s-t dot com Nice Pedro column. |
| Subject: Rookie Of The Year Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2003 From: D. Rosenfeld To: jcouture at s-t dot com, NEPA Dear Judges: Jon Couture possesses a flair, intelligence and wit rarely found in a writer so young. Combined with his youthful desire to tackle almost any subject, Couture has stood out as a sports columnist for The Standard-Times. While working fulltime as a member of the news copy desk, Couture took on a three times a week column and excelled in both positions. He recently was awarded third place in the New England Associated Press News Executives Association sports columnist competition. His prowess as a sports columnists earned him a transfer to our sports department so his many talents can be used on a daily basis. Couture has quickly become a well-known and respected commentator on the SouthCoast sports scene. He has added breadth and depth to not only our coverage of high school and local sports, but also the four major professional teams. Unlike many recent college graduates, Couture actually read the books assigned by his professors at Boston University. But he doesn't allow his encyclopedic memory to turn him into a know-it-all. Instead he has made a concerted effort to seemlessly work with the more experienced members of the staff and avoid potential conflicts and pitfalls. During the chaos of the highway sniper shootings in Washington, D.C., Couture took a lead role in our coverage. Information coming from the wire services was disjointed, incomplete and in many cases contradictory. Couture pored over the volumnious material and wove together main and color stories that rivaled anything in the Boston papers. An Agawam, Mass., native, Couture identifies with our readers, especially in their plight as Red Sox fans. It his his New England native background that has allowed him to connect so quickly with our readers. His only negative trait is a propensity for Hawaiian shirts, but his tastes will improve with age. It is a pleasure to nominate Jon Couture for the NEPA Rookie of the Year award. |
| August 14, 2003 - Lightning Means No Lighting What! They're calling it the BLACKOUT OF 2003! Je me souviens! • On the WWLP 11 O'Clock News tonight, it was reported that Springfield, Mass., had 4,000 customers without power. Agawam? Five. Not four. Not three. Five. Six Flags had lost power during the day, stranding people on super-fun roller coasters, but at press time, FIVE customers had no power. I can only hope I went to high school with some of them. It didn't seem that long ago that we, in the Northeast, were laughing at those in California ... who had no power because Gray Davis is, among other things, probably retarded. And yet speaking as a New Englander, who sits here with his air conditioner running, TV on and the possibility of a microwaved burrito only halted by my having no burritos, we have but one to thank for the Californians not getting to laugh at me: The fine folks at ISO New England. As stewards of New England's power grid, the fine folks at ISO New England saw the effects of the lightning strike in Niagara, New York / fire in the nuclear whodjamawhatsit and, moving quickly, detached the New England power grid from the national one. Given these kinds of things happen in a matter of seconds, it's not a move to be scoffed at. Their quickness kept things operational throughout most of New England today ... something I'm quite grateful for, as it's muggy as a good deal of get-out right now. And look what else they saved us from.  -- The stinky, ugly, misplaced feet of Mrs. American. The Gonzalez family plays cards at Cleveland's Hopkins Airport. Robert Gonzalez, right, said he was seeing his son off on a flight to San Antonio when the power went off. (AP Photo) There was something immediately disturbing about those first images though ... the shots of New York City, the people walking in the streets, streaming across the bridges as though their cars were tethered to the spot they sit. An empty Grand Central Station, dark at 4 p.m. It all turned out fine, but still ... any lingering doubts that we would ever fail to souviens can be completely assuaged. Last Point: If this outage did affect around 50 million people from Detroit to downtown New York, Ottawa to Erie, and it originated near Niagara Falls, this means the two biggest outages in North American history originated in essentially the same spot. For the sake of that quintet in Agawam, I'd hope someone would look into this. |
| Subject: JEREMY SHOCKEY Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2003 From: _____@aol.com To: jcouture at s-t dot com hey, i just read your article in today's paper about jeremy shockey. i have to admit it was well written, but see i dont like him at all. yes, i can say he is a good player but he's just a jerk. i think he's just all talk and karma is gonna kick him in the ass for his rude remarks. i'm just waiting around for him to get what's coming to him. yes, it's hard to defend him cuz as a rookie he's outdone his first year status u know? i just think it's pretty sad that he's all about winning and making a big deal that he's all big on beating the patriots out last thursday and the damn team couldnt even get a touchdown? excuse me could i say it outloud: DEFENSE! the giants only scored field goals....oooo sooo great! but then again i'm partial to tom and the boys. they're looking good this year...and i think shockey should watch out before he gets sacked and i mean in the most serious way. u were my world u meant everything to me ur the air i breathe the song i sing u were my king, i was your queen but if we can try to work it out we'll show the world what love is about baby come on cause i can't take no more of this loneliness n emptiness |
| Subject: Another View .... Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2003 From: _____@aol.com To: jcouture at s-t dot com Jon, having scanned your Wednesday article in the Standard-Times ['Even rebuilt Red Sox don't frighten N. Y.'], you might want to reconsider your primary reading source. The [NY] Daily News is the equivalent to the Herald in Boston, catering to a tee-shirted, cigar-smoking crowd who think they 'know' sports. Would 'pandering' be too strong a word for some of the efforts these folks put forth in an effort to drive up circulation? To get a clearer picture regarding the Yankees' level of concern regarding recent moves by the Red Sox, invest in and read the New York Times. For a long, long time. Not only do these writers avoid the lowest common denominator, but they know the game. Regular readers of Jack Curry, William C. Rhoden, Murray Chass and the others sense that in fact there is a heightened state of alert at the epicenter of the Yankees world -- where it matters most: within the clubhouse walls and in the team's general offices [as evidenced by yesterday's move to jettison Benitez and re-acquire Nelson]. New York's flurry of trades this year alone is an indication of the unease with the team's performance, a symptom even a first-time rotisserie manager can unearth. Don't let 'red-meat' items like the one you published yesterday become your fall-back position when it's so clearly an attempt to fill space on deadline. There's enough pandering going on around us every day. It's unacceptable, and begins contaminating your strength to be taken seriously as a journalist, thereby hurting the rest of us who take this work seriously. By contrast, emulate any one of the people mentioned above, and everything you produce will be worth reading. You'll note -- I hope -- that I forwarded this message to you directly, rather than splash it across your editorial page in a 'letter'; it's that degree of professionalism, care and courtesy that I'm suggesting your writing should reek of each time you begin work on an item. But what do I know, right? [And no, my favorite team resides a bit West of the Bronx. Maybe someday we'll fly out to Busch and take in a World Series game together, eh?] Best of luck. Your ombudsman, ______ _. ________ Fall River, MA |
