Kennewick Lions baseball ticket issues and other Tri-City Herald letters to the editor
Getting game ticket no easy task
Sad we couldn’t go to or watch or listen to the Kennewick Lions baseball team play at GESA Stadium Saturday night. We had purchased tickets for Friday’s semi-final game but couldn’t attend because of a family issue. State Championship games used to be broadcast on TV. Now you have to buy tickets online (none purchased at the gate). That means these grandparents have to be cell phone and WiFi savvy. Somebody’s making money on tickets (not the schools), but they’re not making it convenient for fans to get tickets, attend, watch the game live on TV or at least listen to the game broadcast on our local radio stations. It was nice that the local teams didn’t have to travel far for baseball playoffs and the championship games, but the whole system has made it very hard for locals to get tickets to, or watch or at least listen to games live.
Don’t get me started on the lack of local high school sports on our “local” TV stations.
Jan Slagle, Kennewick
Good ideas, not new laws, needed
In the May 29 issue, the Tri-City Herald published a letter from a Los Angeles Times writer about passing new gun laws. He jumped on the bandwagon of people calling for new laws, as happens following a mass shooting. The problem with what he and others are demanding is they all want more laws but never have suggestions about what laws to pass.
The problem with just passing more laws is that we already have enough laws, but they are only obeyed by law-abiding citizens. Criminals, by the definition, do not obey laws. It’s already against the law to carry a gun into a school (or theater, auditorium, etc.) and shoot people. It’s against the law to shoot people anywhere. Therein lies the problem.
If everyone obeyed the laws we already have, there would be no mass shootings, no car jackings, no gang shootouts. Adding more laws would only affect people who willingly obey them. Criminals would continue to ignore the new laws as they do with existing laws.
I don’t have a solution to this, though I wish I did. That columnist, if he wanted to do some real good, would come up with ideas, not just demand more laws.
Mike Lauman, Pasco
Children light up our dreary world
A couple years ago, I was in an airport; I can’t say where, probably in Salt Lake, but it felt like a desert. In In front of me was another couple, older by 20 years, They were like me, utterly occupied with the dreary business of getting to the next place, the destination,
They had the same look I did; we all did, the ticket agent, too.
But something happened. By a miracle of grace, a young couple came into view, pushing a stroller with a 1-year-old girl. They were engaged in interacting with her.
Suddenly, I found joy. The old couple saw the child, and their faces lit up; all the dry, dull, monotonous dust of that sterile airport was alive and worthwhile. Real. Vivid. We were all smiling with the little girl.. I think the smiles of children are the greatest natural antidepressants we have, Children have the unique capacity to bring us meaning and happiness. People, tell us that more people mean more carbon, and that the best thing we can do for the world is to have fewer children. What a dreary world that is. I think the noble sacrifice is to have children.
Ben St. Hilaire, Kennewick