It’s Postseason: Do You Know Where Dodgers Are?

Kevin Malone has been tried and found guilty of “bad general managing” by the most persuasive court in the land: the court of public opinion. Why has no one meted out the sentence: Tarred and feathered and dumped beyond the city limits?

STEPHEN SCHEFF

Valencia

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How do you turn the Dodgers around? Two words: Lou Piniella. And if he can’t get along with Kevin Malone--fire Malone!

PAUL FULLER

Palm Desert

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Hey, Dodger fans, calm down. The team finished in second place in the West, and is only a fourth and fifth starter away from the World Series. Look at the bright side. You could be a Trojan fan.

RALPH S. BRAX

Lancaster

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The fact that Donald Sterling, a personal injury attorney, and Bob Daly, a movie mogul, made huge fortunes is a tribute to the American way, but why do they have to play out their childhood fantasies to run sports teams on the players, the fans and the city?

If Daly is genuinely a longtime Dodger fan, then it is time to step aside and let baseball people run our baseball team, i.e. Lasorda and Hershiser. Assuming he is too egocentric to do so, do this 40-year-plus fan one favor and keep Malone out of the kitchen, as the only reason I go to games these days is for the Dodger Dogs, the one thing he has not screwed up . . . yet.

STACEY BERKMAN

Torrance

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Dodgers, Codgers, Coppers, Cloppers, Clippers.

What has happened to our beloved Dodgers?

SCOTT SHIMAMOTO

Pasadena

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At the beginning of the season, the Dodgers were a consensus pick to finish second in their division to the Diamondbacks due to questions at the fourth and fifth starter and center field. They fulfilled that promise and improved by nine games while doing a lot of good things. So why all the drama, bitterness and angst toward the Dodgers by The Times sports brain trust toward the end of the season? Possible explanations:

* Crab legs and free booze no longer offered at the sportswriters’ buffet at the stadium.

* Frustrated sportswriters realize that no one is standing in line to pay them for their obviously superior baseball expertise.

* Sportswriters trying to be consistent with The Times’ general editorial policy toward local issues.

I guess Bill Plaschke and J.A. Adande pass for class at The Times, now that Malamud and Murray are gone.

STEVE ALBERS

Mar Vista

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I cannot begin to express how disgusted I am over how sorry the Dodger organization has become over the last few years. The top three (Daly, Graziano, and especially Malone) have made the Dodgers the laughingstock of major league baseball. It’s sad to see them put the blame on someone else when they should look in the mirror to see who is to blame.

WALTER M. SALAS

Santa Fe Springs

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The Dodgers don’t need another designer manager. They need Tommy back.

No one else combines the prestige to cruise above the front-office turmoil, an established connection with the fans, and adequate major league ability as a field manager. And he’s available at the right price--he’d do it for a gold medal.

The Dodgers should take a step backward to Tommy so they can start stepping forward again.

E.P. MACUS

South Pasadena

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I remember what Peter O’Malley said when he announced that he was selling the Dodgers. He was going to find the best possible owner--someone who would keep the Dodger tradition and mystique going.

Instead, Fox has turned this team into one of its mediocre and pointless projects that it packages as entertainment. The Dodgers are overpaid and underachievers. Sounds just like the kind of entertainers Fox presents us with every day.

JAVIER OROZCO

Pacoima