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Has DeLuca’s criticism of teams “standing by their stained man” extended to the Cubs and Sammy Sosa? What about the Giants and Barry Bonds? Calling this “typical Cardinals fashion” seems a bit misleading. It’s been the typical fashion of every Major League team faced with this problem, not just the rival of one of our hometown franchises.

I know I’d be dead right now if I wasn’t taking something that helps me heal “unnaturally,” so I guess Major League Life should ban me from existence.

Citybeat

I find this cartoon a cruelly senseless attack on a bunch of people the artist obviously doesn’t even know [The City by Derf, September 21]. Why does Derf assume Field’s fans don’t have people in Iraq? Some of us actually do. Why does Derf assume we don’t support more urgent causes? Most of us do. Do we need to carry good-deed resumes around like an ID card?