And Now, Turning to the Dodgers ...

Am I supposed to feel sorry for a guy who has had ultimate seats forever and now will be banished to the fifth row (“Put in His Place,” March 27)? How about a piece on a working stiff (who aspires to be able to afford $30,000 for seats some day) who had his phone set to redial Ticketmaster and his computer at the Dodger website the moment individual game tickets went on sale and still didn’t get any? Maybe the kind fellow will donate his opening-day tickets to me.

Bruce A. McClanahan

Pismo Beach

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While I am sympathetic to the plight of Mr. Zeiger, it is unfair to blame the McCourts for doing what every owner in Southern California (and everywhere else) has done -- raise ticket and concession prices dramatically. The cost of attending live sporting events has increased in every market. We now live in the era of luxury suites and, unfortunately, thousands of loyal ticket holders across the country no longer can afford to attend games.

I miss Peter O’Malley too, but he would have been forced to raise prices eventually.

Randy Ledesma

Los Angeles

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While I enjoy the reminiscing and the way things use to be, I can’t feel too sorry for Mr. Zeiger losing his seats. He should feel extremely lucky to have had the privilege to use and be able to afford those seats for so many years. Mr. Zeiger must have had a nice comfortable life years ago to be able to afford his $120,000 house on a salary from the aerospace industry.

That house today is probably worth a few million dollars and someone who purchases a house worth that much today could afford those same seats that he has now. Should he also be paying 35 cents for a gallon of gas?

Mr. Zeiger, pull up a chair in your multimillion-dollar house and turn on Vin Scully and remember how lucky you were to enjoy those years that most of us only can dream of.

David Stern

Marina del Rey

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After much investigation, I have discovered the real reason the Dodgers have decided that the uniforms will not include player names. As best as I can determine, it costs about $10 to inscribe a player’s name on the back of his uniform. Since each player must have a minimum of four uniforms (two for home games, two for the road), and the squad consists of 25 players, we’re talking about at least a thousand bucks! Now, if you factor in the manager, the coaches, the endless parade of players traded away during the season and the new players who replace them ... well, you do the math.

Joel Rapp

Los Angeles

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You know what has been the worst part of this season’s Dodger spring training?

It has been too long, giving fans and sportswriters too many days to complain. Please stop publishing the same cute one-liners about how Frank McCourt is cheap and Paul DePodesta doesn’t know what he is doing until there are marks made in the won-lost column that we don’t like.

Sure, I might not like DePodesta because he went to Harvard and not Yale, but the Dodgers needed some stirring up. Does anyone remember what World Series tickets look like?

Will Gurman

New Haven, Conn.