Hold Your Opinions Until You’ve Watched a Game

Last week’s letters nearly made me choke on my Fruit Loops. It is frighteningly apparent that some people can espouse opinions about baseball without the benefit of having watched a game.

Ted Prebys’ trashing of Pete Rose as a Hall of Fame candidate proves that nothing good has ever come out of Fountain Valley. If being a generally nice guy is the gauge for Hall of Famers, rather than 3,000 hits, let alone 4,200, then Joe DiMaggio and Dale Murphy would constitute the entire Hall.

As for Gary McCarty’s debasing of Tom Lasorda (for lack of success and inability to nurture rookies), where has this guy been living for the last 15 years? Fountain Valley? Lasorda has given us six division championships, four National League pennants, two World Series championships and five rookies of the year.

Opinions are fine, but if they are going to be used about baseball, I would suggest spending three hours one Saturday watching a game.

DEREK STARK

Woodland Hills