Letters: This UCLA quarterback might be something

Although it’s early, I think Josh Rosen has a legitimate chance of winning the Chaisman Trophy.

George Sands

Torrance

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Is there any truth to the rumor that Westwood Boulevard has been renamed Josh Rosen Road?

Marty Foster

Ventura

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I attended UCLA’s opening game. Rosen was fantastic. The turnout was ample. The final score was to my liking, but unfortunately, the interminable Fox commercial breaks totally disrupted the flow of the game and made the event largely unwatchable.

The excessive breaks added easily a half hour to 45 minutes of dead time to the game experience. They destroyed the continuity of play and left 70,000 fans twiddling their thumbs as we repeatedly waited for a fat guy in a red shirt to signal for play to resume.

Perhaps, college football should give some consideration to live fans before attendance dwindles and Fox is required to pay extras to fill the grandstands.

Jonathan Greenspan

Westlake Village

On the diamond

Don Mattingly can’t win. If he gives Zack Greinke and Clayton Kershaw time off before the playoffs and they pitch poorly, critics will say that the pitchers lost their edge and should have been kept on the same schedule. If he doesn’t rest them with fewer innings and fewer starts, then folks like Bill Plaschke will complain that they were the victims of “fatigue” and Mattingly messed up.

Ralph S. Brax

Lancaster

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With Vin Scully retiring after next year, baseball fans will be losing the last vestige of quality broadcasting. Case in point was Sunday night on ESPN. Pittsburgh at St. Louis, top of the sixth. Andrew McCutchen, leading off, lines out sharply to left. All three announcers spend the rest of the inning breaking down McCutchen’s swing mechanics, aided by five or six video angles. The next two batters who were retired were never announced, nor identified by graphic.

The bottom of the sixth was similar, with the announcers dissecting leadoff batter Jhonny Peralta’s strikeout six ways from Sunday and never identifying the next two Cardinals batters. I don’t want to have to check my computer to see who’s up to bat. Keep it simple, ESPN. Tell us who’s pitching, who’s batting, the count, who makes the play, and what the score is. Call up Vin and ask him. He’ll tell you how it’s done.

Roger Sypek

Lakewood

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I like Rick Monday a lot, ever since he rescued our flag (I was there that day). That being said, will someone please tell Rick to stop calling a pitch “outside on the corner”? It’s driving me up the center field wall. If the pitch is outside, it’s a ball. If it’s “on the corner,” it’s a strike. It cannot be both outside and on the corner. If you’re not sure, ask Vin Scully.

Gary L. Platt

Hacienda Heights

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In the summer of 1965, I was a left-handed pitcher for the Sherman Oaks Babe Ruth League All-Stars. We made our way to the tournament finals in Stockton. I pitched 10 innings, giving up two hits and striking out 18. I watched from the dugout as in the 11th inning, on a walk, a bunt and a base hit, we lost 1-0.

Several weeks later, the Dodgers hosted our team and our families to a game with the Chicago Cubs. Journeyman left-hander Bob Hendley pitched for the Cubs, giving up only one hit, on a broken-bat, fly-ball single by Lou Johnson. He lost, 1-0.

It was the night Sandy Koufax pitched his perfect game.

This morning (Sept. 9), I opened the sports section hoping/expecting to see an article on the 50th anniversary of one of the singular moments in L.A. Dodgers history and a game unlike any other in the history of baseball.

Oh, well. As baseball fans everywhere have been saying for generations…

Maybe next year.

Don Marsh

Del Mar

The League

Pro football in L.A. belongs in only one venue: the Coliseum. Arriving by rail, 90,000 fans would cheer on the Rams or even better the Los Angeles Dons (our original pro team and the only indigenously named). Ban all luxury boxes. The great thing about live sports is people of all types and income level mixing together. If that scares some, then stay home in the safety and boredom of Pacific Palisades.

Paul Zimmelman

Marina del Rey

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Carson and Mayor Albert Robles need not fret about residency requirements. NFL Commissioner, Roger Goodell, will be right on top of the allegations.

Bob Ginn

Arcadia

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The solution delineated last week by reader Jack Wishard to the NFL debacle is decent, but this one is more decisively definitive:

The Rams debark in Inglewood, as Stan Kroenke will not be deterred. The Chargers decamp to Carson, as they are destined. St. Louis develops its stadium. The Raiders declare a detour to St. Louis by default, while Oakland football is deemed dethroned and deceased.

Rick Wallace

Malibu

Not the greatest?

Floyd Mayweather’s disrespect of Muhammad Ali is laughable at best, and idiotic to many of us who had a chance to witness Ali’s career from the Olympics through the George Foreman fight. If Mayweather wants to say he’s the best fighter in the weight classes he fought in, that can be argued, but the “best ever” should be able to enter the ring with anybody, and every heavyweight champion I’ve seen in my lifetime would knock Mayweather out easily.

Robert Cummings

View Park

Halo, goodbye

As a lifelong Angels fan who has endured 50-plus years of only one World Series and zero playoff game victories since 2009, I was just wondering if maybe the organization should consider dumping “The Angel Way” and opting for, oh, I don’t know, maybe “The Giant Way?” Three titles in five years sounds like a pretty effective philosophy to me.

Bob Cunningham

Riverside

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The Angels’ answer to their GM problem is obvious. Because they refuse to kick Mike Scioscia’s 12-years-of-narcoleptic-underachieving butt out the door, kick it upstairs and hire Bud Black as manager.

Mike Reuben

Anaheim Hills

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Bill Shaikin suggests that next season will present “a more cloudy picture” for the Angels. I’m no weatherman, but it seems to me that this season, which has been marked by the Josh Hamilton fiasco, the general manager quitting, and the team performing considerably below expectations, hardly qualifies as “sunny.”

Ron Reeve

Glendora

Match point

Serena Williams has earned her place in tennis history. Unfortunately, her lack of a rival and meaningful competition for most of her career raises a question: Was she that much better than the other players, or were they just that much worse?

Harris J. Levey

Venice

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Buster Douglas. Jim Valvano and North Carolina State. Our 1988 Dodgers. Namath and the Jets. 1980 U.S. Olympic hockey team. Roberta Vinci.

Unbelievable.

Mark J. Featherstone

Windsor Hills

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