The Article Was Really Meaningless

How can you call the final Dodger-Padre game meaningless? Nobody on that field seemed to think it was. That’s the kind of smug, ho-hum/bored journalism that seems to be in style today. Baseball is still about winning the pennant. It was before your sportswriters were born; it will be after the next group of “I’m too brilliant to be covering this” has come and gone. If they are bored by a baseball pennant race, let them cover a presidential race or something else that is really dull.

MANNY WEISBORD

Marina del Rey

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The Los Angeles Times sports page: informative--always; insightful--often; annoying--occasionally; ridiculous--totally, when asserting that the final regular-season game was meaningless. A game that needed to be played to determine postseason seeding. I don’t think anyone who cared about the two teams thought that game was meaningless. If you saw how players and fans reacted after it was over, it would be clear the game was very important. To the Dodgers and Padres, the success of the entire season would be measured by this one game. It was winner take all: a division championship, bragging rights, a trip to St. Louis and home-field advantage for the playoffs. That game meant a lot.

ROY NWAISSER

Los Angeles