Baseball benefits from international players
Re: “Nationals add Wang to rotation,” Feb. 17
Your sports feature really made the case for my becoming a more devoted Nationals fan. Numbers, skills and experience aside, I am thrilled that Chien-Ming Wang is being added to the Nats’ roster because he is “made in Taiwan,” a country that is perhaps as fond of baseball as the United States!
Baseball deserves to be an international sport, and with players from the broader pool of talent, like Wang and Daisuke, come unique ways of playing that challenge the old “established facts” of Western Hemisphere baseball. I have no doubt that Washington will owe its thanks to Taiwan for giving the Nationals its native son — along with his seemingly physics-defying combination of force and finesse.
Eugenia Yun
Bethesda
Follow the dirty money
Re: Dirty Money Watch, Feb. 18
After reading another installment of “The Dirty Money Watch,” which tries to explain where the money was used that was awarded by Rep. Charles Rangel’s National Leadership PAC, I believe that The Examiner is barking up the wrong tree.
Instead of asking the recipient what he or she did with the money (how’s that working for ya?), try to find out who donated the money to Rangel in the first place. Also, start a watch on how the investigation of Rep. Rangel is progressing.
Who is in charge of the investigation? Where is the bottleneck?
Place a black ribbon on the front page of every edition with the days since the “investigation” started in bold numbers. Maybe if donors saw their names attached to this scandal, more care would be exercised before they donated.
George Pitonyak
Kitty Hawk, N.C.
