Dodger Fans Have a Think-Boo Season

On the same page that Tom Lasorda is taking the heat for the league’s worst defense [July 19], Brett Butler had four hits and scored four times. Wasn’t he worth the money, Mr. Claire? Don’t blame Lasorda.

R.A. LEE, Los Angeles

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I hope the Dodgers are sick. I hate to think they’re healthy and playing like this.

GEORGE W. FEINSTEIN, Altadena

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During a recent sojourn to the armed camp called Los Angeles, I observed at a closer distance the striking similarity between the demise of the Dodgers and the pratfall of the Rams.

In the latter instance, with the passing of Carroll Rosenbloom and the dismissal of the football-intelligent management group, the erstwhile thrush took charge and hired a CPA to run her football team. The failure was inevitable, and why should fans support an amateurish operation like that?

A similar trend started with the Dodgers. Peter O’Malley is likely a very bright man, but really now, can anyone imagine Walter O’Malley hiring a sportswriter to run his baseball operation? Get serious.

Watch the team to your south. It has baseball people running the show.

VERNON M. LATSHAW, Gardnerville, Nev.