Home Malone: Dodger Fans Ready

If Kevin Malone is correct that he became the Dodgers’ general manager because of divine intervention [March 30], let’s hope the Almighty intervenes again to unload him. And maybe he can help the Dodgers improve to .500 this year.

Oh, and one more thing if the sovereign is not too preoccupied worrying about Mr. Malone, I’d like a new BMW.

HOWARD COTT

Los Angeles

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Kevin Malone informs us, in all humility, that, “It was never about Kevin Malone.” So how does he explain his use of the words “I” or “me” 19 times in the next two paragraphs of his quotes?

GARY NEWMAN

Beverly Hills

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Kevin Malone has every right to be upset with the press and The Times in particular. Of course, he’s still the same arrogant, inept, unqualified egomaniac he was when the Dodgers hired him (with now some additional Captain Queeg qualities attached).

But, a year or so ago, he was the cover boy for the totally dispensable Times Sunday Magazine, and the subject of an accompanying adoring puff piece that proclaimed his imminent rise to glory and completely glossed over his predictive personal and professional past.

Unlike the NCAA basketball referees, I am not a betting man, but I would wager any amount that the Dodgers will never see a playoff game as long as Malone remains the GM (and as long as Todd Hundley is catching, Devon White is in center field, Carlos Perez is still on the team, etc., etc., but that’s another letter). The one thing Malone has done is to make the terminally mediocre Fred Claire look like a genius.

When I was a kid, and lived 1,500 miles away from Dodger Stadium, on summer nights, I used to go outside and sit in my parents’ car and listen to the Dodger games on KFI. Now, I live 60 miles from Dodger Stadium and, on summer nights, I can’t get reception for the Dodger games on radio. Were it not for the need for an occasional fix of the timeless Vin Scully, most nights I consider that a blessing.

BILL GABLE

Laguna Beach

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How quickly Randy Harvey forgets how the Albuquerque farm club has helped the Dodgers. He listed Sid Bream, Paul Konerko and Mike Marshall as disappointments at bat. Funny, that’s not how I remember them. By the way, he forgot to include Garvey, Lopes and Piazza and others from Albuquerque who have contributed to championship teams with the Dodgers, not to mention Lasorda and Hershiser.

Doesn’t the Dodger brass bear some responsibility for some of the bonehead trades they’ve made? Mr. Harvey, don’t make excuses for the dismal play of the Dodgers by blaming my hometown’s elevation.

ANTHONY R. LOVATO

Covina

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As usual, The Times refuses to give adequate coverage to the Dodgers’ preseason. A mere column or two of space each day, most of which is devoted to a fluff piece, leaves us baseball fans wondering if your sports editor has a vendetta against our national pastime.

While devoting dozens of pages to Shaq and Kobe in their 82-game quest merely to determine which team gets home-court advantage for their “real” season, us poor baseball fans are left in the dark.

Spring training is an integral part of major league baseball where we can learn: Has Hundley thrown out a runner this month? Is our recently converted second baseman making the pivot on the double play? Is Hollandsworth cutting it in center field? Is anybody batting leadoff, and if so, has he made it to first base yet?

SKIP USEN

Santa Monica

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As we get ready for the start of the new baseball season, I wonder how many times the Dodger brass will again try to convince us fans that the Piazza trade was really a good deal for L.A.

MARIO BECERRA

Torrance