Letters to Sports activities: Joe Maddon, Angels fall guy, is mistaken individual to blame

Joe Maddon is aware the intricacies and approaches of baseball as nicely as anybody alive. And he has the mature point of view that allows him to see the modest significance of a boys’ activity in the more substantial universe. He is a mature, effectively-reasoned and articulate spokesman for the terrific video game. Creating him the tumble dude for the Angels’ collapse is absurd right after expecting him to sustain results with an inconsistent and modestly gifted pitching staff. The Angels can alter professionals every single year and they will not locate a superior male.

Gordon Cohn
Very long Seaside

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As a Cal Point out Fullerton alum, I am ecstatic to see fellow Titan Phil Nevin be part of Mark Kotsay as major league supervisors. But firing Joe Maddon and naming “Duck” the manager is almost nothing additional than “rearranging deck chairs on The Titanic.” As very long as anyone who has to be James Dolan’s twin brother, Arte Moreno, owns the crew, 2002 will continue on to get further more and even further in the rearview mirror.

Erik Schuman
Fountain Valley

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Which is it! I formally give up without end on the Angels. I pretty much gave up when they wasted hundreds of tens of millions on Hamilton, Pujols and Rendon. All of that money ought to have been expended on pitching which is baseball 101. When they hired Maddon, I arrived back on board due to the fact I understood if there was a way, he would uncover it. Now, Arte panics just after an East Coastline highway trip in opposition to the greatest teams in baseball that are heads and shoulders improved than the Angels. I’m out for superior.

David Waldowski
Laguna Woods

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Writer Monthly bill Shaikin applied the correct phrase to explain the long failure of the Angels group: dysfunction.

Enough is enough. Soon after a long time of failing to contend, it’s time to shut the shop. Arte Moreno should really sell off the gamers to other groups. Deliver Trout to the Yankees and Ohtani to the Dodgers where they can acquire Globe Collection rings. We longtime Angels supporters have suffered plenty of!

Carl Martz
Redlands

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Joe Maddon fired! Is Dave Roberts up coming? Awful history in 1-run online games. Terrible document in further inning video games. Why? Because these are conclusion making cases. A thing he is terrible at. On the other hand, he is Excellent when his staff scores 8 runs or additional.

Wendy McCall
Chino Hills

Negotiate this

I have no unwell will toward Aaron Donald and consider he is a wonderful participant. However, I have a huge problem with professional athletes who desire to renegotiate their contracts for the reason that they now experience they are worth extra than when they signed. No just one forces an athlete to sign a multi-calendar year contract. They usually do that due to the fact they want the security of the several several years in scenario they are hurt or have off many years. When was the last time you heard of an athlete telling administration he would consider less than he is owed below his contract for the reason that he experienced a bad 12 months? Most likely the alternative ought to be that multi-year contracts are not permitted and athletes get paid dependent on how they accomplish the preceding year. Oh, wait a 2nd, as I can previously listen to the athletes screaming obscenities at that notion and threatening to strike!

Mark Kaiserman
Santa Monica

Who’s in the booth?

I’m not positive who Lon Rosen is chatting to having said that, I can convey to you a large amount of supporters are not content about the revolving door in the Dodger broadcast booth. It reminds me of the aged Abbott and Costello skit “Who’s on 1st?” In this circumstance, it is “Who’s broadcasting the game right now?” Granted, the days of Vin Scully doing a solo broadcast are long gone. I consider Joe Davis has finished an admirable job using in excess of for Vin and I have usually preferred Charley Steiner and Rick Monday doing radio. Having said that, the rotating “personalities” in the Television broadcast booth is bush league. Baseball groups have to have chemistry to succeed. The exact same applies to the broadcast booth.

Ritch Wells
La Cañada Flintridge

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The title of the short article must have been “Too several voices are communicate of the town.” The quite a few Dodger announcers are all serviceable, interchangeable and vanilla. Los Angeles has been blessed with so quite a few superstar voices, but Vinnie and Jerry Doggett produced a specific workforce (who would not have alongside Scully?) and I can continue to listen to them a little muffled on my transistor underneath the covers whilst pretending to slumber.

Allan Kandel
Los Angeles

LIV greed is not very good

I hope this reaches not only Dustin Johnson but Phil Mickelson, Graeme McDowell, Ian Poulter, Sergio Garcia and the other PGA players who have decided to be a part of the LIV Golfing Tour.

Thank you for building apparent that your precedence is dollars! Your ethics and understanding of what you are getting into with Greg Norman and the Saudis are despicable, unconscionable and missing in any sense of reality. Every single of you is currently a multimillionaire. You, as perfectly as the Saudis, have blood on your palms, and you have offered your souls for cash and absolutely nothing additional.

We can only hope that the group fails miserably and you are in no way witnessed once again in aggressive golfing.

Jay Slater
Los Angeles

Inspiring females

The ideal story by considerably in the sports area on Sunday was about the Cal Point out Dominguez Hills women’s softball team. The workforce flies up north to participate in Sonoma State and rents vans to get to the activity. They cease in Oakland to get some food items and their vans are damaged into and their valuables and crew equipment are stolen. The law enforcement didn’t react to their phone calls. Undeterred by the absence of law enforcement guidance, the group ongoing on to Sonoma Condition and wins their first regional title in the school’s background. This should have been a entrance webpage story in the sports activities portion (if not the newspaper’s entrance web site) due to the fact of the resilience of the CSDH gals in the confront of adversity. I get in touch with on the Angels and the Dodgers to donate $25,000 each and every to assistance replace the team’s dropped valuables and equipment.

Mark Walker
Yorba Linda

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Thank you for your protection and assigning writer Thuc Nhi Nguyen to compose about UCLA women’s softball, basketball and other sports activities, and also for placing it on the front webpage at periods and not burying it in the again.

It’s essential to give credit history the place credit history is owing, and the UCLA women’s teams have been as prosperous as, if not much more than, the men’s teams in excess of the last 10 a long time or so. Also the women’s coaches in softball and basketball are just remarkable leaders.

Steve Shaevel
Woodland Hills

Producing a variance

Thank you, Invoice Plaschke. I normally do not cry during breakfast, but I absolutely sure did currently. Your recounting of this superb relationship with your “little brother” Andrew touched my heart in the course of a time in which I am starting to sense helpless and hopeless.

Thank you for sharing your life with this impressive younger guy. Andrew was fortunate, you were lucky, now we all are blessed to have shared your expertise.

Judith Braun
Woodland Hills

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What a superb column by Invoice Plasckhe about his partnership with Andrew, his “little brother” who grew to become a lifelong good friend. Some thing we all ought to find out from, about supplying of ourselves to other people today, about athletics being a indicates to unite individuals and have enjoyment. It is very good to see sports activities as a auto to provide people today jointly in these divisive moments.

Michael Roth
Westchester

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