Letters To Sports: Bill Plaschke's Dodgers Prediction Is A Winner To Some

Very clever, Bill Plaschke. Knowing your way record, you constitute a column predicting nan Dodgers will not triumph nan World Series this year, thereby ensuring that they will, successful fact, triumph nan World Series this year. Well done!

Jim Lawson
Santa Barbara

We should convey Bill Plaschke for predicting that nan aging Dodgers will NOT three-peat this fall. If a number of his past prognostications (read from cloudy crystal balls) were inaccurate, we person a overmuch amended chance to triumph a 3rd consecutive World Series championship. Let’s telephone this caller branch of subject “Reverse Plaschke-ology.” No offense, but he should beryllium observant wherever he makes his predictions, particularly successful a barbershop wherever location are galore crisp objects successful aging hands. We dream Bill is incorrect … again.

Ken Mok
Diamond Bar

The Dodgers want a three-peat, and person spent a batch of money connected Edwin Díaz and Kyle Tucker. But why, ohio why, do they clasp connected to Blake Treinen and Tanner Scott? I conscionable cannot fathom it out.

Deborah R. Ishida
Beverly Hills

It’s only adjacent that a Japanese institution has naming authorities for nan Dodger Stadium field, since nan champion Dodger hitter, and champion Dodger pitcher are some Japanese.

Vaughn Hardenberg
Westwood

Mirjam Swanson’s column connected a potential Dodger three-peat brought backmost awesome memories of nan 2000-2002 Lakers’ championships. However immoderate reference to a “three-peat” should statement that Pat Riley — nan latest Crypto statue honoree — first uttered nan word and past copyrighted it successful 1988 soon aft nan Lakers won their 2nd consecutive championship.

After sweeping nan first 3 rounds of nan playoffs, it appeared nan 1989 Lakers would triumph their 3rd title successful a row, but past hamstring injuries to Byron Scott and Magic Johnson severely wounded nan Lakers’ chances. Let’s dream a akin awesome wounded bug doesn’t deed nan 2026 Dodgers, truthful we person a amended chance of seeing Kiké Hernández aliases Freddie Freeman do a title parade creation à la Mark Madsen.

Ken Feldman
Tarzana

Reading astir nan Angels upcoming season, I person 1 large concern. Mike Trout playing halfway field. He gets wounded truthful easy and he is playing a moving position. He should beryllium a full-time DH.

Mike Lorraine
Simi Valley

Congratulations to each nan young athletes and their teams connected The Times All-Area precocious schoolhouse hoops teams. I do wonderment astir nan choices nan seniors are making successful their commitments to colleges and I look to The Times to explicate why UCLA is seemingly not connected nan radar for these young players.

It utilized to beryllium known that nan Bruins’ world requirements were a important obstruction to galore precocious schoolhouse players. Is that still true? Are nan section graduates not nan pick of nan harvest that Southern California was known for successful past years? Are NIL deals affecting nan choices of these early freshmen? Is UCLA not making a beardown outreach effort for nan apical section talent? Is L.A. truthful atrocious for these kids that it isn’t moreover connected their radar to enactment adjacent to home?

I americium judge I americium not unsocial successful seeking clarity astir nan rumor of nan exodus of section talent to Missouri, Oregon State, Texas, North Carolina, Nevada, and moreover much confounding, USC.

David Gerne Echt
Torrance

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