Letters: Frank McCourt? Really?

It doesn’t say much for the intelligence of Guggenheim Management, the owner of the Dodgers, when Frank McCourt turned out to be the smartest guy in the room.

Guggenheim, I have a house I’d like to sell you. It was appraised for $1 million, but I’ll let you have it for a million four. There is one condition, however. I keep the garage and the land under it, and you pay me $50,000 per year for the right to park in the garage.

You’d better move fast, Guggenheim, before other interested parties emerge.

Michael Gesas

Beverly Hills

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That Frank McCourt gets a chop of my $10 parking fee annoys me every time I drive up Elysian Park Avenue. The Guggenheim people, the NFL and anybody else should know that any new local deal cut with McCourt will fail because the L.A.-area public will run the other way.

Stuart Weiss

Los Angeles

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The Guggenheim contract allowing for Frank McCourt to “still be in the L.A. sports mix” reminds me of the classic but sad old country song: “‘How Can We Miss You When You Won’t Go Away?”

John Mazur

La Cañada

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Reading that Frank McCourt’s contract with Guggenheim Baseball Management might somehow preclude the greed machine known as the NFL from locating a team in L.A. made me realize the taxpayers of Los Angeles owe Frank a debt of gratitude — which is a lot better than the sinkhole of bonded debt our politicians would saddle us with to build a gold-plated stadium.

Mel Frohman

Los Angeles

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If the Dodgers were as interested in winning as they are about defending their players from a Diamondback pitcher’s cheap shots, they might be the ones in first place.

Chris Boyd

Redondo Beach

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Two things were apparent after the Dodgers’ “brawl” Tuesday night: MLB ballplayers fight like little girls, and the tough-guy Dodgers are still in last place.

Jack Kenna

Whittier

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In what baseball universe does Bill Plaschke exist where a hot phenom takes a fastball to the face and is not backed by his pitcher and teammates?

Allan Kandel

Los Angeles

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The Dodgers can be fixed with just four words:

More Puig. Less League.

Axel W. Kyster

Bradbury

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If Brandon League is a closer, this 89-year old bald man who walks with a cane is Brad Pitt.

Harvey B. Schechter

Beverly Hills

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After spending two weeks with the hapless Dodgers there are rumors that Yasiel Puig is planning to defect back to Cuba.

Jack Till

Santa Fe, N.M.

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Please, please, do not let the hitting coach anywhere near Puig.

Morrell Chance

Glendale

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I like the new guys who own our team. I like Stan Kasten. But I’m confused by their paralysis.

Is it possible for any worse managing than what we saw in the ninth inning Monday night? Four hits and a walk and then Donnie Baseball figures it’s time to take out Brandon League, who should never been given a chance to blow yet another game.

Injuries aside, Mattingly cannot be given any more passes. He’s is incapable of making this team perform better. Although we might have a chance for fourth place if San Diego has a prolonged losing streak.

Jeff Pollack

Pacific Palisades

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I have followed the Dodgers for 58 years, going back to Brooklyn. It was my contention that Jim Tracy was the worst manager in memory. But no longer. Don Mattingly has surpassed Tracy. While his team continues to burn, Don does nothing remotely right, except chew gum and blow the odd bubble. His mismanagement is directly responsible for at least a quarter of the team’s losses.

I’m sure Don is good person; he’s just not the savvy major league manager the Dodgers require.

Mike Zimmer

Foothill Ranch

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Two questions: “What took so long to bring Puig up?” and “What did anyone see in Matt Magill’s previous game (nine walks, four home runs) that told them he should take the mound again?”

Bruce Alan

Granada Hills

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By now it should be obvious that no team can buy wins in professional baseball. The baseball gods have cursed the Dodgers for overspending and the only way to satisfy these gods is with a human sacrifice. Let me suggest Don Mattingly.

Jacob Weiner

Culver City

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Wouldn’t it have been a hoot for Vin Scully to have yelled out during the old-timers’ game, “Hey, you kids get off my lawn!”

Deb Chandler

Rancho Cucamonga

Respecting the Kings

If the other professional sports teams in the Los Angeles area played with as much determination and 100% effort as the Kings, there would be more recent championship banners aloft at various venues than the one marking the historic achievement of winning the 2012 Stanley Cup.

Meantime, while guys battled during a very compressed playoff schedule with torn knee ligaments, sprained ankles, shoulder separations and concussions, other so-called “athletes” who stand in the field for 21/2 hours (when not sitting on their butts in the dugout) always seem to pull a hamstring when they actually have to move fast. Or in one case, a pitcher “running” to cover first base.

Howard P. Cohen

North Hills

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After seeing the Kings achieve the ultimate prize last spring, we should also appreciate what has been accomplished these last few weeks.

Six consecutive wins, including coming back from an 0-2 start in St. Louis to win four in a row.

A Game 7 win over San Jose.

Saturday’s comeback in Chicago, in a game that could have been lost early, the Kings forced two overtimes.

Having known this franchise from the beginning — including the glamour Gretzky years — the Kings were never an elite NHL team. They are now. Congratulations.

Randy Elkins

Camarillo

Family matters

Why did this even happen, and so publicly? Kobe Bryant has made what, a half billion or so, over his career? Why not buy the stuff back, giving his parents enough cash to get the house they apparently need? If I may be so bold, why not just give them the money, just because they’re his parents?

Ken Artingstall

Glendale

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After learning that Kobe forced his parents to publicly humiliate themselves over what is, to him, pocket change, the next time I hear a Staples Center crowd chant MVP I’m going to think “Most Vicious Person.”

Mike Kichaven

Sherman Oaks

Forget about it

Bob May, Rocco Mediate and Chris DiMarco may go down as the biggest whiners in golf history for complaining about Tiger Woods’ “reluctance” to reminisce over majors they lost. Did Muhammad Ali trade boxing mementos with Sonny Liston, Joe Frazier, George Foreman or Ken Norton?

Kevin H. Park

Encino

Big Dipper

The Miami Heat Big Three of James, Wade and Bosh combined for 85 points, 30 rebounds, nine assists, 10 steals and five blocks in Game 4.

It sounds like a line for Wilt Chamberlain.

Andy Schwich

Santa Monica

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