Leave Chavez Ravine? They Can’t Believe It

“We will maintain and respect the Dodgers’ long history of tradition.”

--paraphrasing Fox management during the purchase of the Dodgers.

Since then, we’ve seen:

* Changed road uniforms.

* Ditching the marquee superstar.

* Firing two managers in the same year.

* Starting the “retired numbers” on outfield wall idea.

* Ending the “retired numbers” on outfield wall idea.

* Buying talented mercenaries and abandoning Dodger system of stocking from a strong farm system.

* Opening up billboard advertising on the field.

* Talk of tearing down Dodger Stadium.

* Putting Vero Beach spring training facilities on the market.

* Putting advertising in the dugout and behind home plate.

* Talk of relocating the Dodgers away from Chavez Ravine.

Can someone tell me what aspect of tradition has been maintained, other than the name and the color blue?

HALE ANTICO, Pasadena

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The new Dodgers fire the head of minor league scouting who delivered five consecutive rookies of the year. They let a Hall of Fame catcher go, and then pay $15 million more to a guy who plays every five days. They hold a $20-million gun to the head of Vero Beach or it’s bye-bye Dodgertown. And now they want to move to an area where you can’t go at night unless you’re armed.

Please, for the sake of all of us, change the name while you’re at it. The Los Angeles Dodgers, who brought so much joy to us all for 40 years, are no more.

JAMES OLMSTEAD, Valencia

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Fox seems to have no sense of the history and tradition of the Dodgers, as well as knowing a great thing when they have it. Dodger Stadium is the most beautiful, comfortable stadium in all of sports, and they want to tear it down just to make a few corporate types happy in their “enviro-cubes,” a.k.a. “luxury boxes.”

Fox should realize that it wasn’t corporations that made the Dodgers what they are today, it was the families, and families love Dodger Stadium! If tearing down Dodger Stadium is their way of bringing an expansion NFL team to L.A., then it almost makes me want Al Davis back. (YIKES!)

Fox, wake up and smell the Dodger Dogs (grilled, please).

MARIO SOTO, Valencia

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Say it ain’t so. The Dodgers moving to Exposition Park?

Part of the Dodger experience is the relationship that most Dodger fans have with Dodger Stadium. I realize that in the long run the stadium may have to be replaced, but Chavez Ravine can be an incredible location for a commercial development that can rival some of the other new ballparks in Baltimore, Cleveland, Texas, etc. Such a disregard for the locale of the present Dodger Stadium, the scenic and historical significance could lead fans like me to do the unthinkable: support the Giants.

BRUCE EDWARDS, Simi Valley

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A note to all the Dodger fans who wrote in, ripping on Michael Eisner for calling the Dodgers the lesser team.

Get over it.

What Eisner said is called “posturing.” Rocking the boat in order to stir up a rivalry between two clubs. Because it got such a response from Dodger fans, what he said must have worked. Indeed, if Dodgers fans are so confident, they would not have written in at all.

RICK LOPEZ, Simi Valley