Strike May Be Over, but Reaction Isn’t

During the baseball strike, The Times’ writers had the opportunity to write many stories about the replacement players. Perhaps now they can understand how many of your readers feel about the loss of Scott Ostler and the use of replacement writers.

KEVIN H. PARK

North Hollywood

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I can’t tell you how thrilling it is to see the deflation of salaries in major league baseball. It is finally time that baseball echo the dynamics present in other industries.

I work in health care, where deflation is a major league problem. We are seeing our net revenue drop day to day from our traditional payers. We have had to adapt to the change, with salary freezes on senior staff, and a number of excellent colleagues have been put on waivers.

Rather than staying away from baseball in protest, I recommend that fans return to show their appreciation for the more realistic face baseball is putting on.

PAUL W. BRYDON

Malibu

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Irate baseball fans, to let the players know the extent of their fury for following Don Fehr like sheep, instead of booing, should greet them with a chorus of baaas.

STAN KAPLAN

Garden Grove

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It is really great to see that the baseball strike did a lot of good. On April 12, your paper listed the free-agent signings and what the owners will pay the players for one year of egoball. If my fingers hit the right keys on the calculator, the American League owners did a better job of saving money. They will pay out only $41,197,666, where the National League owners will be forking out $43,365,262.

The only change I can see is that I won’t be there to support this fiasco.

RUSS McELROY

Norco

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Now we know the real reason why the baseball players remained on strike--to keep Michael Jordan out of baseball.

RONALD KONOPKA

Pasadena