Ripping Series Coverage on TV, Radio and Paper

In a letter last week, Bill Stein wrote that Tim McCarver talked too much. Why single him out? And John Lane, who thinks the playoff coverage is so great? He must enjoy a lot of commercials and replays.

MARY CONLEY

Whittier

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Your esteemed columnist, Jim Murray, masks a shabby attempt to deride the Yankees in the guise of wrong-headed humor. He devotes the bulk of his column, written midway through Game 4, to putting down the Yankees as “banjo hitters.” It’s like writing about an NBA game at the half, or the Derby before the stretch drive. He has violated the first law of Yogi: “It ain’t over till it’s over.”

KENNY FEUERMAN

Los Angeles

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Not everyone is able to watch the World Series on television. Millions of us spend untold hours behind the wheel. Can anyone explain to me why a megalopolis of 7 million people is relegated to listening to the Series on a one-lung radio station in Lancaster? The signal is so bad, even in the San Fernando Valley, that it is almost impossible to hear. Are we to understand there was not one station in the metro area capable of or interested in carrying the CBS network broadcast?

The play-by-play, incidentally, is by our very own Vin Scully. Where is KNX when we need it?

MICHAEL LEVITON

Encino