Your turn

When will Alonzo Mourning learn that he is finished? The Nets don't want him, and neither does anyone else Give up your comeback attempt, Alonzo, before anything else goes wrong with your health.

Brian Schneider, Rockville, Md.

I read with interest Todd Jones' column on loudmouthed fans (TSN, September 27). While I agree profanity-laced tirades should get the culprits ejected, it's nice to know Todd and his batterymates have thought up a way to embarrass them and get them down on the field to give them a good working over. It's a shame Todd and his pals on the Phillies don't take that same aggressiveness to the mound. As a longtime baseball fan, I expect the .players to call security and not get personally revolved. Is that too much to ask?

Paul Verlander, Gloucester City, N.J.

* Joe Buck is pontificating again from the pulpit of MLB's version of moral majority. His favorite rant? Ripping Barry Bonds (TSN, October 4). Buck, who claims that the rest of the country doesn't care about what Bonds accomplishes, is spreading remedial propaganda. It's designed to drill into the common fans head Bonds that somehow Bonds keeps playing the sport just to spite it. It also suggests that America doesn't appreciate a confident African-American whose game face often is mistaken as disdain for everything with a pulse. Bonds doesn't smile. Big whoop. What would Buck do with players like Ty Cobb? Bugs Raymond? Ted Williams?

Jeremy Nunes, Oakland

I beg to differ with Ken Rosenthal's choice for N.L. MVP (TSN, October 4). I think the award should be given to Dodgers third baseman Adrian Beltre. If you took Scott Rolen, Albert Pujols or Jim Edmonds out of St. Louis, the Cardinals still would have a Murderers Row. Barry Bonds has a good lineup around him as well. But if you took Beltre away from the Dodgers, they would have absolutely no one. Beltre is the sole reason why the Dodgers had such a good season. My vote goes to Beltre.

Kelly Pernick, Wilmette, Ill.

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