Dodgers fans still finding plenty wrong with team
Of course Dodgers management is not panicking. They lead the majors in attendance and revenue every year, win or lose. They have a huge TV contract. The only people in panic mode are us fans. Javier Garcia
Whittier
Sometimes in sports, many players have career years all in the same year. I believe that’s what happened with the Dodgers last year. If you compare their current roster with the Cubs, Nationals, Astros, Red Sox, Indians and Yankees, they are far behind.
Tommy John surgery or even Tommy John himself won’t fix the Dodgers’ fate this year. Richard Katz
Los Angeles
Bring Andrew Toles back up. Manage Walker Buehler carefully so he doesn’t turn into Julio Urias. Work Alex Verdugo into the everyday lineup. Have a bit more patience waiting for Justin Turner to heal. Deal Matt Kemp (the original plan) into someone with a chance to be an up-and-comer. Save the money that would have gone into the luxury-tax repeater status for years to come for the loaded 2018 class.
And if there’s any place for money or trades to highlight, it’s the pitching (Clayton Kershaw and three days of rain), if anything, that needs the attention and upgrade over the current four-innings-or-bust crew. Robert Goldstone
Corona del Mar
The chances of the Dodgers landing Manny Machado are somewhere between slim and none, and slim just left town. The Dodgers’ problems start with Andrew Friedman and Farhan Zaidi. They built this mess and they are responsible for the results. The ineptitude of Dave Roberts becomes more evident as the season goes by and this started with Game 7 of the World Series last season. How could management let Brandon Morrow go to the Cubs? Why did management let Johnny Cueto, Jake Arrieta and Justin Verlander slip through the cracks? Albert Viola
Porter Ranch
Bill Plaschke can talk all he wants about moves the Dodgers should make, now that Corey Seager is out for the season. But it’s the move they didn’t make last year that cost them the World Series and will haunt them for years to come. What Guggenheim and company forgot (or maybe never knew) is that you never pass up a chance to win, because you never know when you will get another chance. They sign the more expensive Verlander, and they are defending champions and favorites to win again. They sign the less expensive Darvish, and you know the rest.
Pitching wins titles, and with Kershaw now a fiveinning pitcher, and not much after him, a World Series championship looks like a distant dream. Leonard Levine
Tarzana
The look of horror Dave Roberts had on his face when Pedro Baez fell off the mound is the same look that every Dodgers fan has when the bullpen door opens and Pedro trots out. Rich Hardt
Long Beach
How about the Dodgers benching Dave Roberts for mismanaging his pitching staff? Brian C. Gura
Redondo Beach
Facebook Dodgers
Just when you thought it couldn’t get any worse, the Dodgers surprise us once again. The management team has teamed up with Facebook to bring live games online! Great, now you can have Cambridge Analytica harvest the raw data of Dodger viewers and sell it on the dark web. I watched some of the Arizona game and the comments during the game were not so good … fans are unhappy but who cares? Apparently the Dodgers don’t. Patrick Kelley
Los Angeles
Anyone try and watch Facebook’s game of the week on Thursday as the Dodgers faced the Diamondbacks? It was nothing but stop and starts and then total interruptions.
No matter how much MLB received it’s not worth it unless the tech problems are resolved.
As usual the fans pay the price.
Westlake Village ::
OK, what’s the deal with Dodgers on Facebook on Thursday? Most of us oldtimers (some of the biggest supporters of Dodgers) don’t even know what Facebook is; Congress didn’t know. We still pay for Dodger Channel but no game, it’s on Facebook. What’s next? Watch Dodgers Netflix, HBO, the Movie Channel, to which none of these I subscribe. I pay for Dodger Channel, so please Dodgers show me the game. Bob Martinez
Glendale
Same old Angels
Insanity: Doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result. The Angels continually throw all their money at hitters (Josh Hamilton, Albert Pujols, Justin Upton, Ian Kinsler) while pinching pennies on pitching. For pitchers they shop at the 99-cent store (the minor leagues), and for hitters they max out their credit card at Nordstrom on aging stars. Each year we hope for a new and better result until the end of April, and then we realize it’s another year of Angel Groundhog Day. David Waldowski
Laguna Woods
With so many Yankees fans in attendance, is there any point in the Angels even having home games versus the Yankees?
Next year, they might as well play all the games in New York. The Angels couldn’t fare any worse than they did this year. Ron Reeve
Glendora
Draft dodgy
I didn’t find anything wrong with what Josh Rosen said about the other nine teams and that they passed on him. Everyone is too sensitive. I rather enjoyed listening to someone not speak with a cliche response to a reporter. It was refreshing and intelligent. I hope Josh has an excellent career and I’ll definitely be rooting for him and listening to all of his interviews! Remember it’s just a game: They aren’t putting people into outer space! Randy Childs
Manhattan Beach
Sam Darnold doesn’t care that he was “outplayed” last November at the Coliseum, Bill Plaschke. Who won the game? Fight On. David Marshall
Santa Monica
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