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Monday, April 10, 2006
From the mailbag
Our comments yesterday about Lehigh's awards banquet brought a torrent of e-mail from indignant Mountain Hawks fans.

We weren't surprised to get e-mails about that post. We did find it interesting that none of the e-mails defended Lehigh's handling of the Joe Knight situation.

Instead, they were full of righteous indignation about our comments on the Sixth Man Award being given to the guys who paint LEHIGH on their chests for every game.

Here's a quick sample:
"lehigh 6th man award is given to a person outside of the team. a thirty second search of the lehigh website shows that past recipients include mike staggnita (sports info) and andrea legg (trainer)" Writes neverletthefactsgetinthewayofagoodstory@bucknell.edu, a courageous soul with a phony e-mail address who doesn't let a broken shift key get in his way.

"Lehigh's 6th man of the year award never goes to a player. It recognizes someone not on the team, suchjas a trainer or media relations person, who have won the last 2 awards. But then again, you just interpret the information so you can take a shot at Lehigh." wrote a reader with what looks like a real lehigh.edu address
Forgive us for not searching the archives to see who else has won Lehigh's Sixth Man Award. Truth be told, we really didn't care who won in the past. Still don't. We just figured we'd take advantage of the opportunity to comment on Lehigh's lack of a quality bench and its lousy attendance numbers.

Kind of reminds us of a joke we once heard: A guy is standing on the corner outside of a bar in Bethlehem cracking jokes about Lehigh. A couple of big dudes decked out in Yellow and Brown walk past just as he tells this one: "Why don't they teach drivers ed and sex ed on the same day at Lehigh? Because it is too much stress on the mules." Well that really makes them mad, so they huff up their chests and walk over to the guy to confront him. "Hey tough guy, we hear you are making Lehigh jokes. We're from Lehigh. Want to tell us some?" they ask. "No thanks buddy," the guy answers. "Why not? Ya chicken," they ask. "No comes the reply. I just don't feel like being here all night explaining the punchlines."
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