They sat a week for this?

Should we now start calling them the Colorado Rusties?

Patrick McKean

Long Beach

Many a baseball pundit will undoubtedly say that Cleveland’s inability to hit Josh Beckett and wrap up the playoffs in Game 5 was the Indians’ downfall. No, the beginning of the end for the Indians came before Game 5. That stupid and unnecessary layoff after Game 4 killed their momentum. Cleveland cooled off, Boston regrouped, and the rest is now history, as they say.

We can thank Major League Baseball for again bowing to the TV gods and messing up another series.

Rick Solomon

Lake Balboa

Why have the Red Sox become the most hated team in the country? Perhaps it’s the overloaded bandwagon that seems to pick up steam with every Boston win. Thursday night at a sports bar in Santa Monica, a Red Sox “fan” was being unruly. Some fans rooting for Colorado were giving the guy a hard time about being a bandwagon fan. The guy responds with, “No way. I’ve been a fan since 2004.”

Lawrence Sewry

Buena Park

See what happens when the baseball gods have been angered? For doing the wave when the Dodgers had the bases loaded and nobody out, for showing more interest in a beach ball than in the game taking place on the field, for getting more excited playing “Guess the Attendance” than in seeing a well-executed hit-and-run play, Dodgers fans now get to watch J.D. Drew, Eric Gagne and Julio Lugo in the World Series. A fate worse than death itself.

Greg Garnet

Canoga Park