Simers, Dodgers Throw Readers a Curve

What a refreshing way to start the day. Instead of skipping over T.J.’s column, which typically is filled with vitriol, I actually read the entire column about Eric Gagne’s visit to the children’s hospital. Please, Bill Dwyre, order T.J. to write a positive story like this at least once a week. Instead of the spitter that T.J. typically throws (he would make Gaylord Perry proud), he threw a great change with the story on Gagne.

Ken Feldman

Granada Hills

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All I can say is, it’s about time you put the Los Angeles Dodgers on the front page of the Los Angeles Times sports section. As a true blue fan, regardless of their place in the standings, it truly pains me to have to turn to Page 5 to find the boys in blue. I mean really

Susan K. Dubin

Calabasas

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The time has come for all Times sportswriters to write a collective column to give the proper hosannas to Kevin Brown. Who cares if he doesn’t wink at T.J. or smile at J.A.? This is a competitive athlete who, with no financial cross to bear, has come back from debilitating injuries that would have sent mere mortals as Plaschke and Reid to the couch with their clickers.

Alan Amitin

Montrose

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Sammy may have gotten a suspension for corking his bat, but the Dodgers seem to have put a cork in their critics without incurring any sort of penalty. You have to love the way the boys in blue are playing this season. Even T.J. has been left floundering with his sarcasm in tattered disarray. I can feel the serious pain all the Dodger bashers are in and I have only one thing to say.

Good.

Mike Kilgore

Los Angeles

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Shawn Green should throw the batting gloves he’s currently using to some kids in the front row, then keep the gloves he hits his next home run with.

Paul Zimmelman

Marina del Rey