It’s a Little Early for a June Swoon

Only Paul DePodesta could look at the sinking ship that is the Dodgers and find reason for optimism. He would have made a great captain of the Titanic.

Leonard Levine

Tarzana

Is Dodger General Manager Paul DePodesta suffering from a computer hangover? That’s the only excuse possible for his quote earlier in the week (“We have to beat the teams outside our division in October, not necessarily every time we play them in May.”).

The Dodgers, who should be mathematically eliminated way before then, have only two games scheduled in October (against the Padres) and last I checked they are in the same division.

Seems to me that Mr. DePodesta has lost it!

Richard Whorton

Valley Village

If Paul DePodesta honestly believes the Dodgers will finish over .500, let alone win the division, he should get a job with that other L.A. team in Anaheim, thus being closer to his home in Fantasyland.

Joel Rapp

Los Angeles

The photo of Milton Bradley simply giving up and not sliding at the plate in a loss to the Giants epitomizes why the Dodgers are a second-division team. Any true competitor would have slid and tried to jar the ball loose. I guess if Giant catcher Mike Matheny were a fan, then Bradley would have certainly gone in headfirst.

Jack Wolf

Westwood

Now the problem with the Dodgers, according to Bill Plaschke, is how badly they treated Steve Finley. Last year, according to Plaschke, the problem was that by trading Paul Lo Duca, the Dodgers had eliminated any chance of going to the postseason.

Why don’t you just change Plaschke’s byline to Chicken Little?

Michael Green

Las Vegas

Was that clause in Jeff Kent’s contract -- taking the month of May off -- something that Frank McCourt worked into his contract in order to cut costs?

John Fraser

Camarillo

I’m a lifelong Dodger fan and I can’t take Charley Steiner anymore. He makes derogatory comments about the team, leaves many seconds of dead air, and really only tells the audience the actual play-by-play (no stories or other information like Vin Scully or Rick Monday).

I never thought I would be writing the editor of the L.A. Times about anything, but this shows you how horrible I really think he is.

Bryan Rohr

San Diego

I went to the Los Angeles Dodgers Budweiser All Bank Chevy Delta Nextel Stadium on Friday night. After watching them get routed by the Angels, I don’t think I would want my name on my uniform either.

Pat Jacobs

Temple City

It’s not how you start, it’s how you finish ... and the Dodgers are finished.

Richard Kane

Reseda