Readers Join Protest Over Protest

Bill Plaschke has it all wrong [“Why Shouldn’t They Put ‘Pro’ in Protest?”, April 26]. The Cuban ballplayers who decided to give themselves a day off because of the circumstances involving the taking of the Cuban boy are not necessarily being good human beings but just being unprofessional.

If they want to protest, why don’t they do it on their day off like Glen Rice? What he does on his own time is his own business. Even if I disagree with his stance on the matter, like any other taxpaying citizen he’s entitled to express his opinions. No one should criticize him for it. Just so long as he suits up when he’s supposed to.

Hell, I get offended almost on a daily basis by our government’s actions. But yet I still get up the next day and go to work. I’m a professional.

TODD WEST

North Hollywood

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How easy for Cuban-American ballplayers to boycott Tuesday baseball games and be politically correct. My vote for a “Profiles in Courage,” however, goes to Cincinnati outfielder Alex Ochoa, who decided to play baseball. Maybe politically incorrect, but showing some real courage!

It’s too bad the 17 Florida Marlins who played their hearts out in an 11-inning loss to San Francisco might have won the game had the eight additional protesting players been available to their team.

RON COOPER

La Crescenta

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Any management that allowed players to take Tuesday off in protest blew it. The ballpark is not the place for players to act out their personal political protests. The Cubans and Cuban-American players should have played Tuesday, and if they refused, they should have been fined.

After all, when was the last time you saw Orel Hershiser or any other Christian player refuse to play on Good Friday in protest to what happened to Jesus Christ?

STEVE SMITH

San Gabriel