Ump Changes Direction of Angel Series

I didn’t recognize him with a mask on, but now I know what happened to the ref from the 1972 USA-Soviet basketball game.

MICHAEL BROGIN

Sherman Oaks

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Home plate umpire “Clueless Doug” Eddings will not make it into the Hall of Fame after this latest White Sox scandal.

ADAM PLATTS

Northridge

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If we forget that Doug Eddings believed he clearly saw the ball hit the dirt from behind the catcher looking down through his body and mitt and didn’t feel it was necessary to tell anyone about it, let’s look at his call.

A raised right fist by an umpire means the batter is out in every league from the Little League to the Olympics. Eddings says that his raised fist means he might be out, pending further developments. I’m sure he passes out brochures before the game so everyone will know what he means.

My question is, what signal would he have used to call the batter really out this time if the catcher had tagged him? A raised left fist perhaps?

JACK BENDAR

Pacific Palisades

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The Angels lost because they scored only one run.

The Angels lost because Escobar did a poor job of holding on Ozuna, especially when he was the potential winning run.

The Angels lost because Escobar made a poor pitch to Crede with the game on the line.

JAMES OLMSTEAD

Valencia

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T.J. Simers is an imbecile. He blames Josh Paul for Wednesday night’s debacle? Paul is a clown and a goofball? This from a delusional narcissist who thinks the pathetic lives of his nitwit daughters and loser son-in-law are fit topics for a Page 2 sports column.

If catching the third strike for the third out, then rolling the ball back to the mound makes Paul baseball’s Yorick, then Simers is the sportswriter equivalent of a third-rate Vaudevillian spraying seltzer down his own baggy pants.

DENNIS CONNOR

Burbank

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In opposing instant replay, Pete Carroll and the Trojans apparently don’t care whether or not the refs make the right calls against Notre Dame. Makes perfect sense to the White Sox!

MAGGIE HARADA

Mill Creek, Wash.