What Can You Do to Think Blue?

After watching the first couple of weeks of the baseball season, the Dodgers are in first place. I can’t believe my eyes. As a Dodger fan, I want to use a quote from Shaq, “I’m not impressed!”

This is what the Dodgers should and shouldn’t do during the season and then I’ll be impressed:

1. Teach Dave Roberts and especially Alex Cora how to hit. They’ve been in the league how many years now and can’t even put the ball in play.

2. Send that guy Jeff Weaver back to New York for, let’s say, $100,000. Frank McBroke needs that money in his pocket.

3. Trade Hideo Nomo for a mediocre prospect. His fastball is no more. It can’t even reach 88 mph. Pathetic! He’s not our ace. Odalis Perez is, in my book.

4. Do not give Adrian Beltre a fat contract during the season if he continues to be a hot hitter. You’ll regret it if you do.

Jason Rosario

Los Angeles

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Hmm ... a player who fails to run out a pop fly? All I’ve seen is hustle, defense and RBIs. Milton Bradley is exactly what the Dodgers needed.

William Collier

Laguna Niguel

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I saw in the real estate section of the Sunday Times that McCourt & Frau have just purchased a Holmby Hills home for close to the asking price of $25 million. The house on 2.6 prime acres has six bedrooms and 10 bathrooms in 20,000 square feet, plus a 600-foot-long gated drive, two guest houses, a media room, a sound studio, a wine cellar and a tennis court.

If McCourt had an ounce of conscience, he would trade three bathrooms, the media room -- he doesn’t need one because the media hate him anyway -- and 200 feet of the driveway for a hitter.

Norm Galston

Los Angeles

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I don’t know what makes me happier: Watching the Dodgers hit under batting coach Tim Wallach’s guidance or having a batting coach not recommended by Tommy Lasorda.

Jon Umeda

Monterey Park

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I can’t be the only Dodger fan who was bothered by Eric Gagne’s comments a day after giving up a two-run homer to Barry Bonds in the ninth inning of a game the Dodgers fortunately won anyway. I may be “old-school” (though, at 45, hardly old), but it angered me to hear about how much respect Gagne has for Bonds.

I’m no expert, but I do know that you don’t try to throw a guy like Bonds four fastballs in a row, even if you throw 100 mph. No wonder the guy has more than 660 homers. If more pitchers “respected” Bonds like Gagne did, he’d have 880 by now.

Gagne, you’re a Dodger, and we don’t “respect” Giant hitters, especially Bonds. Your job is to get the guy out. You can respect him all you want after he retires.

Gary L. Platt

West Covina

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I’m glad that Dodger pitching coach Jim Colborn still has confidence in Jeff Weaver, despite his 6.89 earned-run average. I’m sure that the captain of the Titanic was equally confident when he embarked on his ship’s first trans-Atlantic voyage.

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Jack Wolf

Westwood