This Baseball Fan Has a Case of the Blues
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While perusing the morning paper for the TV baseball lineup this weekend, it hit me like a high inside fastball: I couldn’t care less about these guys anymore.
I don’t want to know anything about them. Not about their labor problems, their private thoughts or police records. Just play the game and shut up. I don’t want to see a postgame interview. Who cares? Line ‘em up on the foul line and tear their names off the jerseys. They’re just props now.
The only enchantment left in the game is in the architecture of a handful of ballparks--I’ll tune in for the tradition.
I would sooner watch the Silver Bullets play a mediocre college team in Cleveland than a World Series in Seattle, Houston, Philly, Pittsburgh, Montreal or anywhere else the turf is as artificial as the prima donnas. What happened to my game?
ROBERT LIVINGSTON
Laguna Hills
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Fans are not back in full force at Dodger Stadium? Hey, did you try phoning their ticket office? One Sunday, June 4, I called and got a recorded voice telling me the ticket office was open only from 8:30 to 5:30 on weekdays, but call back because “the Dodgers will be back in town May 12 against St. Louis, May 15 for the Pittsburgh Pirates and May 19--the Chicago Cubs!”
That Dodger ticket office is really on the ball--a month late.
MAX HODGE
Sherman Oaks
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I’ve discovered the only way to get a good seat at a Dodger game:
Go to San Diego.
MICHAEL MAW
Pacoima
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