Super- spreaders?
Re “The reign returns,” column, Oct. 28
If it wasn’t shocking enough for Dodgers third baseman Justin Turner to be pulled from Game 6 of the World Series because of a positive coronavirus test, seeing him unmasked and sitting close to his teammates celebrating their victory was heart- stopping. What were he, the Dodgers and Major League Baseball thinking?
Last month, the National Football League fined three head coaches $ 100,000 for not wearing face masks on the sidelines, a safety precaution that is required at games during the COVID- 19 pandemic. The coaches’ teams also were fined an additional $ 250,000.
I love baseball as much as anyone, but Turner’s behavior was a slap in the face of the more than 227,000 people in the United States who have died from COVID- 19. I urge MLB to immediately fine Turner and the Dodgers and give the money to Los Angeles County for its efforts to mitigate this terrible virus. Denny Freidenrich
Laguna Beach
Words fail me ( almost) to let you know how uplifting it was to read in the L. A. Times about the Dodgers winning the championship. Our world has been turned upside down, but the Lakers and now the Dodgers have all made it right side up for a while.
I was thinking of my husband, Mike, a Dodger fan who never would consider leaving a game early, and who must be smiling from above with many other fans. Los Angeles needed this. Esther Friedberg
Studio City
Re “Fans’ parties give coronavirus a field day,” Oct. 28
This article rightly notes the “mostly maskless fans” photographed at a viewing party near Dodger Stadium. But it says nothing critical of maskless Dodger players “hugging and mobbing” one another after their World Series victory.
Why the double standard? There’s one for elite, wealthy athletes, and another for lowly fans. Richard Olivas
Sherman Oaks
Divine intervention? How else to explain how the Dodgers prevailed through a dramatically shortened regular season, oddly expanded playoffs, and a three- games- to- one deficit in the National League Championship Series?
Verily, in this fraught year the baseball gods have smiled on Los Angeles. Glenda Martel
Los Angeles