• The Green Phone was created so the fans could voice their
opinions. Give us a call and let us know what’s on your mind.
CALLER 1: Could you tell me who won the Mason Kunimura Youth
Sports Coach of the Year award this past season? Thank you.
• The Green Phone was created so the fans could voice their opinions. Give us a call and let us know what’s on your mind.
CALLER 1: Could you tell me who won the Mason Kunimura Youth Sports Coach of the Year award this past season? Thank you.
GREEN PHONE: That’s a good question, Caller 1. The Green Phone contacted the Gilroy Community Services Department, which gives the award each year to the youth basketball coach who best exemplifies the spirit of Mason Kunimura, who coached the sport in the community and died in 2000. The department didn’t think the award had been given out yet this year, but is checking up on it. As soon as the Green Phone gets a concrete answer, we will pass it along to Dispatch readers. In the meantime, if anyone else knows the answer, feel free to light up the Green Phone.
CALLER 2: Nicely written article on the Bay-to-Breakers – maybe I’ll check out the Dispatch more than I have. I’ve never made it to Alcatraz, either, but I have run B-to-B. These are things you save to show your visiting friends, then you wind up just dropping them off, anyway.
GREEN PHONE: Caller 2 is referring to Damon Poeter’s recent column on the Bay-to-Breakers.
CALLER 3: Would you happen to know when the all-league baseball players will be announced and when you are going to print the results?
GREEN PHONE: Caller 3, we belatedly present to you those very awards, plus the list of softball TCAL honorees.
CALLER 4: This flap over the 49ers’ video is so much hooey. Have we become so PC that every little thing causes a storm of controversy?
GREEN PHONE: Caller 4, we don’t know if we agree with you that the leaked “training” video made for a 49ers “diversity” workshop can be called a “little thing.” There was certainly some offensive stuff in there. Of course, it’s also important to note that the 49ers are the only NFL team that even HAS diversity workshops. Also that the video was supposed to get and hold the attention of perhaps otherwise-inclined rookie players, to hammer it into their heads the way they should conduct themselves in a diverse community when representing the Niners. The critics scream that the video was an object lesson in how NOT to behave in San Francisco … but that was kind of the point, right?
