Critical thinking

Monday morning quarterbacking is a critical component of the sportswriter’s creed; it comes with the job. We all have biases, moreover, and I get it. Dylan Hernández doesn’t like the Chargers. Or the Clippers. While berating the former, he managed also to take a shot at the latter:

“Look at the Clippers. They now have one the best owners in professional sports, they successfully recruited Kawhi Leonard and the city still views them as losers.”

Really? Since when does Hernández or any writer speak for an entire city? He doesn’t speak for me or thousands of other Clippers fans. The Clippers will never be as popular as the Lakers, not by a longshot. But who cares? Certainly not the sellout crowds who have pulled for the team at pre- Covid games.

A true loser doesn’t just have biases but is governed by them. Naysayers like Hernández love to revel in the bad old days. For the record, the Clippers have won 452 regular- season games during the last nine seasons; the Lakers, even with their dazzling 2020 championship run, have won just 301. Howard Rosenberg

Agoura Hills

Bill Plaschke better start looking over his shoulder. There’s a new f lip- f lopper in town.

Dylan Hernández, Nov. 3: “As crazy as this sounds, as improbable as this once seemed, the Chargers are positioned to overtake the Rams as SoFi Stadium’s main attraction.”

Dylan Hernández, Dec. 14: “The Chargers are the one- ofa- kind last- place team that is worse than their 4- 9 record indicates, as a never- ending succession of on- field gaffes have threatened to turn them into football’s version of the Sterling- era Clippers.” Robert Bruce

Long Beach

It’s unfair for Dylan Hernández to compare the Chargers to the Clippers becoming a city joke, when in fact the Chargers have had that label long before the Clippers came to town. The Clippers are still trying to achieve the court jester status of the Chargers.

When you leave Los Angeles after one year of existence only to return, unwanted, 56 years later, only to play in a 20,000- seat stadium, you are a joke. The Chargers have been a tragic comedy for 70 years. Martin Manigone

Arroyo Grande

Maybe, given the poor record and bad public relations for the Chargers, are they rethinking their move from San Diego? M. Lynn Mout San Diego