Will Dodger Fans Get Sucked In Again?

So, Ishii and Izturis look good? Brown looks strong?

I can’t stand it!

Just when you’re looking forward to a quiet, painless season of preordained ineptitude--a season where you’ve already thrown your hands in the air before the first pitch of opening day--they reel you in just a little. A gentle “well ... maybe” is whispered in your ear by the itinerant muse of baseball fandom that flits into Los Angeles every March until the end of July when the team is sunk and you can swear you hear him giggling every time you open the morning sports section.

I am a sitting duck for the taunts of this mischievous wayward sprite. Yankee fans, meanwhile, are off limits to this impish beast because there’s merit to their hope, and merit to one’s hope is like Kryptonite to this malicious baseball cap-wearing, gum-chewing cherub who I’d swear has been on the Dodger front office’s payroll for the last 13 years.

Steve Freeman

Los Angeles

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It’s so typical of the Dodgers to push for a guy like Antonio Alfonseca. As I recall they hammered him most every time they faced him.

I’m actually starting to believe that these guys think 81-81 is a perfect season.

Tom Schiff

Woodland Hills