When Did the Dodgers Ever Like the Angels?

Give me a break. The Dodgers have never extended the hand of friendship to the Angels, as intimated in Wednesday’s Bill Plaschke column.

Remember, it was Walter O’Malley who demanded a payment from Gene Autry before he would waive his territorial rights and allow the Angels to come into existence.

It was O’Malley who insisted that the Angels play their first season in 20,000-seat Wrigley Field, the minor league Angels’ old ballpark, rather than share the 90,000-seat Coliseum. O’Malley owned Wrigley Field, by the way.

Then, when the Dodgers and Angels, beginning in 1962, cohabited Dodger Stadium (Chavez Ravine to the Angels) it was O’Malley who charged Autry exorbitant rent and took a huge cut from parking and concessions, enough to chap the old cowboy’s hide and prompt him to look for greener pastures.

I’d say the “LAA” flap is minor compared to Walter O’Malley’s bullying of the Angels back in the day.

David H. Crocker

Long Beach

The only one who is “publicly whining” and “pouting” is Bill Plaschke himself. Why should the Dodgers be forced to take part in Arte Moreno’s idiotic name-change soap opera? The city of Los Angeles and the state of California haven’t. Mr. Plaschke should devote more time to explaining why he was so wrong about the Dodgers’ off-season moves, instead of running the Angels of Anaheim public relations office.

Adam Sperling

Los Angeles

The only thing wrong with Jeff Weaver is that he has a manager and a pitching coach who don’t know when to take him out.

Kevin Holten

Manhattan Beach

Now that the Grapefruit League portion of the schedule is over, the Dodgers have reverted to the .500 team we all expected. The bottom line is, if you take away the unbalanced schedule that has them play each of the National League “Worst” teams 20 times a year, they would be lucky not to lose 100 games.

Paul DePodesta and Frank McCourt can fool some of the people all of the time, but I am not among them.

Mark S. Roth

Los Angeles

The epithet “racist” has become degraded by becoming the first recourse of the intellectually lazy.

However, one cannot call T.J. Simers’ sophomoric and unfunny attempt to get cheap laughs by way of taking advantage of the language skills of a hardworking kid from another culture anything else.

And yes, Simers, you live among us.

Reuben Leder

West Hills

You would have thought T.J. Simers and Hee-Seop Choi were on the same page. Hee-Seop has problems speaking English and T.J. has problems writing it.

Len Klatt

Westwood

Cost to read the daily Los Angeles Times: $0.50.

Cost to read the Sunday Los Angeles Times: $1.50.

Reading “T.J. Simers is on vacation” in the Los Angeles Times sports page: priceless.

Michael T. Selch

Los Angeles