At Least Fans’ Commentary Is Succinct and to the Point

After watching the World Series on television and listening to it on the radio, it’s very annoying the way the play-by-play announcers keep interrupting the commentators.

SID LAZAROW, Orange

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Note to Don Ohlmeyer regarding your comments on NBC’s coverage of the World Series and its interference with your blockbuster Thursday sitcom lineup as quoted by Larry Stewart on Saturday:

Don, it’s simple: Don’t carry baseball on your network! Turn it over to Fox. But if you do, please also loan them Bob Costas.

MIKE MOORE, Encino

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So, Bud Selig wants to “explore and implement ways to accelerate the pace” of postseason baseball games? May I suggest he get owners to dig their hands out of the networks’ deep pockets? (Good luck, Bud).

By my stopwatch, between-inning breaks averaged 2 minutes 58 seconds (baseball’s rules, I believe, mandate a one-minute break). That’s an aggregate of 50:26 out of every nine-inning game. Add not-so-occasional (in 14-11 games) pitching changes that clocked an average of 3:50 with all the out-of-break promos, and . . . gee, where’d all the time go?

The game’s economics make this an irreversible trend. Still, it’s yet another example of how suicidal baseball evolves with complete disregard for fans--except those who can’t get enough of talking frogs.

TOM SINGER, Placentia

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NBC, we don’t mind seeing how each ball is pitched. We can live with the quick replay of each ball thrown to each batter. But we get very confused when you show what some batter did last inning, last game or last season.

JOHN D. ANDREWS, Palos Verdes

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Thank God Eric Gregg is not umpiring the World Series. I’d much rather see a game with 17 walks than one with 30 strikeouts.

JOHN F. STOPP, Van Nuys

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Cleveland against Florida? There are only two words to describe NBC’s only chance of salvaging its World Series ratings:

Marv Albert.

MEL POWELL, Los Angeles