Star power
Choosing home-field advantage for the World Series with the All-Star game winner is about as meaningful as flipping a coin and slightly less fair. Here’s a thought: Let’s televise a winner-takes-all battle between the managers of the league champions -- rock, paper, scissors, one throw. This one counts.
Mel Powell
Sherman Oaks
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Does anyone really like Chris Berman’s hackneyed childish behavior during the Home Run Derby? Why do we, year after year, have to listen to his idiotic “Back . . . back . . . back” after almost every swing of the bat? Can’t you just go “back . . . back . . . back” to wherever you came from?
Andrew M. Weiss
Playa del Rey
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