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To: Tony Viola who wrote (94572)	12/24/1999 10:09:00 PM
From: puborectalis	Read Replies (5) \| Respond to of 186894

O.T........Editorial Inside the odd mind of pitcher John Rocker What should baseball do with John Rocker? Arm of Colossus, mind of mosquito, Rocker is the famous pitcher for the Atlanta Braves who recently revealed the oddness of his thought patterns to Sports Illustrated. It's no good repeating what he said, but it's important to note that Rocker travels through major cities as if mentally wearing a sheet. He doesn't care much for the people of New York, especially anyone different from him - in culture, language, race, age or infirmity. Your average bigot rarely gets this kind of attention, but Rocker is a heck of a ballplayer even if wound a little tight as he high-steps it to the mound. Because he is semi-famous and because his distaste for the cultural cauldron that is New York has reached the headlines, he hands a problem to Major League Baseball. What should they do with him? Atlanta can't trade him. Almost every team in the Bigs would want him immediately. There's not enough shame in the world to stop teams from trading for a closer. A fine would satisfy some, but Rocker makes more money sitting at home with his feet up than people riding New York subways do in a lifetime of toil. Rocker deserves some time - a lot of it - with the little people. Community service is the label that covers his redemption, but some specifics are in order: Rocker should begin by working in an AIDS clinic, looking into the eyes of the people he is washing. He should spend evenings as a teacher's aide in an English class for the foreign born. He should help those who are working through history books to earn citizenship. Rocker should serve breakfast to day-care kids whose single moms are running to work every day. He should stand at the receiving end of a soup line, ladle in hand, giving some warmth in a bowl to hungry men. He should feel the cold of a street corner longer than the stride from taxi to doorman. That's what baseball should do for John Rocker, as a way of explaining to him it's America's game. Copyright © 1999 The Seattle Times Company