They’re like a box of chocolates

Hey, Grady, I know that I should defer to you, since you are a professional manager and you have such a sterling track record in the playoffs, but ...

Seems to me that you had Broxton and Saito ready to go in Games 1 and 2 and the best you could do was Penny, Tomko and Hendrickson?

Just because you sound just like Forrest Gump doesn’t mean you have to manage like him ... or worse.

KEVIN WEBB

San Bernardino

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Lofton (.000), Drew (.125), Furcal (.143), Martin (.143) ... should I go on? Boy, it’s a good thing that the Mets’ starting pitching is hurting right now, huh?

TONY CORTES

Lake Forest

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The announcers on ESPN said they had never seen anything like that Dodgers double play before in their lives. What, you fellas never been to a T-ball game before?

DAVID MCKENNA

Newport Beach

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I’m trying hard not to get too down on the Dodgers’ performance so far in the division series after such an exciting and inspiring regular season, but it’s difficult to feel anything but total frustration.

It’s past time to start playing like an underdog, or a nice season will go down the tubes very quickly and will be remembered more for what they didn’t accomplish than for all their heroics.

ALLAN KANDEL

Los Angeles

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Wednesday’s loss rests solely on the shoulders of Grady Little. The biggest game of the year is no time to be testing Brad Penny as a relief pitcher. Heck, Brad Penny should not pitch at all, period! The man has not performed in the last three months and has a nagging injury.

Can Grady really one-up his Pedro decision, or is he simply trying to add to his legacy as a horrible playoff manager?

NOAH IZZARD

Oxnard

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Forget about Garciaparra, Lowe, Penny, Furcal or Ethier. The real MVP of this team is Ned Colletti.

BRIAN HAUETER

Ventura

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On behalf of all of us (including me -- see Letters, June 10) who publicly sneered at the notion that the Dodgers could make the playoffs, I would like to eat my words. But that doesn’t seem a big enough penance, so instead, may I offer up a Thanksgiving menu for all of us naysayers to choke on: a healthy hunk of roasted crow and a great big slice of humble pie.

Mal appetit.

JOEL RAPP

Los Angeles

Bill Plaschke’s tribute to Frank McCourt’s “vision” almost made me forget all of the columns he wrote roasting McCourt for such asinine, unforgivable acts as the effort to humiliate Ross Porter. But then I remembered that Tom Lasorda thinks he’s influential now, and that explains it: As we have known all along, Plaschke and his main “source” are the champion front-runners of the civilized world.

MICHAEL GREEN

Las Vegas

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Would someone please dump a bucket of cold water on Bill Plaschke? He sounds like a 5-year-old who has just seen his first Dodgers game.

Has the word “objective” ever been in his vocabulary?

RALPH S. BRAX

Lancaster