Letters To Sports: Dodgers Off To A Roller-coaster Start

Sasaki. Ohtani. Yamamoto. That spells SOY, nan typical sauce that will beryllium an basal look constituent if nan Dodgers scheme to service up a cleanable three-course repast this season. Oh, let’s not hide a generous portion of “Díaz Delight” for dessert. Reservations, anyone?

Ken Mok
Diamond Bar

Dodgers catcher Will Smith is truthful quiet and unflashy that he gets overlooked. But is location a amended catcher than him successful MLB? The reply is simply a large no!

Jeff Thompson
Bermuda Dunes

It was bully to spot Dodgers proprietor Mark Walter say that baseball has to “come up pinch thing that will springiness america immoderate parity.” Adding nan caller Uniqlo naming authorities to nan tremendous tv authorities helped nan squad make $850 cardinal successful gross past play — nan astir of immoderate MLB team. The move doesn’t precisely lend to nan thought of parity.

I’m reasoning that Walter is truthful flush that nary matter what happens, nan Dodgers “will beryllium fine,” it’s only adjacent that nan squad little nan summons and parking prices to thief nan religious fans who person been squeezed retired of seeing a crippled successful person.

Peggy Jo Abraham
Santa Monica

Winning nan Cy Young Award and MVP successful nan aforesaid play has been accomplished by only 11 pitchers successful shot history, including erstwhile Dodger Clayton Kershaw successful 2014. The Cy Young is evidently based connected nan player’s pitching statistics, which would person to beryllium truthful superior to past beryllium awarded nan MVP complete different player’s hitting capacity alone. None of nan past dual winners were two-way players, frankincense really does Shohei Ohtani, who has won MVPs successful some leagues, triumph nan Cy Young and MVP? His hitting stats on pinch his pitching stats person to transcend nan period of winning a Cy Young and MVP connected pitching alone?

Wayne Muramatsu
Cerritos

Along pinch nan MVP candidate’s statistic successful nan violative category, really astir including nan corporate statistic of nan opponents they are chiefly assigned to guard? If their opponents people much points, assistance connected much scores, past who comes retired ahead?

John Snyder
Newbury Park

So acold this season, nan ABS System has been an overwhelming occurrence successful Major League Baseball. Players and umpires tin get a definitive reply erstwhile a telephone is disputed. No much arguments, nary much ejections. I only wish that Angel Hernández was still astir truthful we could spot him overruled and disgraced dozens of times each night.

Rodger Howard
Westlake Village

Somebody has to opportunity it. Yes, Luka Doncic is unthinkable and his summation to nan Lakers mightiness good get america to nan promised onshore erstwhile again. But, please Luka, extremity complaining to nan refs aft each changeable you take. Firstly, while you are opinionated location pouting, our opponents are racing to their handbasket pinch a five-on-four advantage. Secondly, you stack up more method fouls and diminish your superstar reputation. Love you Luka … get backmost connected D!

Bob Mendez
Claremont

I watched 2 minutes of nan Thunder-Lakers crippled Thursday and I knew it was over. It looked for illustration nan varsity against nan JV team. Let’s dream Lakers motion immoderate quiet free agents this summer.

Russell Hosaka
Torrance

It seems arsenic if Tiger Woods has arsenic many car wrecks and visits to curen facilities arsenic he does awesome wins. And that’s pathetic. If he paid arsenic overmuch attraction to choosing a driver successful his individual life arsenic he does successful his master one, we’d each beryllium safer. The man needs a chauffeur much than group therapy. And he tin spend it. No handicaps for this feline erstwhile it comes to points against his license. Take him disconnected nan roadworthy permanently. The only conveyance he should beryllium allowed to run is simply a play cart successful nan confines of a play course.

Craig Rosen
Los Angeles

In consequence to nan scholar past week who was wondering why truthful galore All-Area hoops players are leaving L.A. for different colleges: Mick Cronin.

Paul Kawaguchi
Rosemead

Never needing a filter, UCLA coach Mick Cronin fto it fly! In consequence to nan question, what was needed for UCLA to beforehand further successful nan NCAA tourney past its early second-round exit, Cronin barked, “About 5 much million!”

Obviously, his inability to clasp 7-foot-3 halfway Aday Mara was frustrating and yet devastating. His height, passing and shot-blocking expertise was sorely missed. Add nan nonaccomplishment of nan Bruins’ starring scorer and rebounder, Tyler Bilodeau, to wounded and Cronin was fresh to beryllium tied by some deficiency of costs and nan wounded bug.

Hopefully, some of those issues will beryllium resolved by adjacent play and UCLA will find itself backmost successful different Final Four arsenic nan elite programme their history has shown.

Rick Solomon
Lake Balboa

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