Congratulations to the Clayton Kershaw class for a great career now that he decided to retire. I hope Kersh comes out in mind as John Elway did in his last season – leading the team to a championship.
Ken Feldman
Tarzana
I have been a fan of Dodger Know-it-it since the late 1950s and after last season, I thought and hoped, Clayton Kershaw would retire. I was wrong.
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Paul Burns
Granada hills
I am so satisfied with Clayton Kershaw’s decision to finally retire. Now, I hope the dodgers make the right decision and make him an offer that he cannot refuse by making him the best paid laundry coach of all time, who better?
Russell Morgan
Carson
Clayton Kershaw’s retirement is a bad timing for dodgers and manager Dave Roberts. Obviously, they will need three or four starters in the playoffs and Kershaw is now fifth or sixth in the rotation. If Roberts does not use Kershaw, the manager will be called a heel, and if he begins Kershaw and he is bombed, Roberts will be considered a bad manager.
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Fred Wallin
Westlake village
Pitch debate
Isn’t it time to allow beginners to finish their games, especially when They have a hit?
The use of the number of steps as a preventive measure may or may not work. After all, three prodigies of pitching in the light of Walker Buehler, Dustin May and Tony Gonsolin were on limited counts. They were luminous prospects, now they are out.
It is impossible to predict when an injury occurs. And there can be something to the theory that more heights will make stronger arms, provided they have adequate rest between departures.
Ron Brumel
West Los Angeles
If the Dodgers manage to go to the World Series this year, it will be despite the obvious incompetence of Dave Roberts who was fully exposed during the Tuesday evening match against the Phillies.
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Not only will he not let Ohtani launch more than five rounds, despite a low count, but, as he did in eight other occasions, completely ignores the fact that his launcher is launching a sure blow. With his ruined lift enclosure, why does he get his starter so early?
Ken Blake
Bright
Finally, Dave Roberts has been confident in a launcher And Blake Snell answered. Roberts has spent his entire management career drawing launchers every time they launch high. The launchers strengthen the strength of the arms by tanning, not by increasing the bursts on their collective butts.
Steve Trocino
Sim Valley
No relief required
The first two games in the recent series against the Phillies have said everything. Dodger’s enclai is a fire at five alarms, an unmountained disaster, a total disaster. I put myself from the recent writer who offered a solution to this mess: a two -star approach. Please trigger an “without appeal area” which covers the enclosure of the Dodger readers. For two starters to work the playoffs in a three -game rotation, the team needs six quality arms. We have them: Tyler Glasnow, Clayton Kershaw, Shohei Ohtani, Emmet Sheehan, Blake Snell and Yoshinobu Yamamoto.
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Craig Rosen
Los Angeles
Most of the time, only a turning on four men is necessary for the MLB qualifiers. If the dodgers make the playoffs, I have a suggestion for their rotation: Yoshinobu Yamamoto, Blake Snell, Tyler Glasnow and the combination of Shohei Ohtani and Clayton Kershaw. You would always have Emmet Sheehan for a long relief and a starting point for injuries.
Neal Rakov
Santa fe, nm
Bill Plaschke’s Column on the enclosure of LEVERS Matt in mind in my mind, a notable quote from the late Howard Cosell. Although I have never met the man, “Plaschke says it like that.” I am amazed at the way Bill summed up the weaknesses of the Dodgers.
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Patrick Kelley
Los Angeles
An affectionate farewell
There is a necrology in the Sunday sports section. This is Mike Kupper, written by Mike Kupper.
A few additional things should be said, because Kupper would not say them himself.
He was hired because the massive sports section Times at the 1984 Olympic Games needed a Master Word editor. Once arrived, you didn’t dare to use “that” when “who” was correct. The restrictive and non -restrictive clauses were mainly interchangeable for the rest of us. Not for Kupper.
His title was a senior assistant sports editor. This could easily have been the editor of staff conscience. We were not allowed to shortcuts, lazy sentences, wave sources and insufficient allocation. He improved us all in a calm and firm way. When he has corrected a story, we remember how and why and dare not repeat the error.
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He knew sport, loved his stories, liked to write many of them himself. He covered and wrote about everything. Each story was to the point, precise, entertaining and without an orientation of the current approach “look at me” with so many writers. His specialty was the automatic race. When he arrived at Times, this specialty was already managed by the automotive writer of the temple of renown Shav Glick. Without a suspicion of jealousy, Kupper walked side by side with Glick in the best than racing journalism in Punch has ever seen.
In retirement, he wrote dozens of necrologies, each entertaining and meticulously reported. Today, the one on himself is the same. Those of us who worked with him were no less expected.
Bill Dwyre
Baltimore, md.
In conflict a lot
It’s incredible that took a photo of Tom Brady In the coach stand during the recent raid match for the most part to understand that the NFL and the Fox have a serious conflict of interest in their hands. It seemed obviously apparent from the start, but now that it has finally reached the fore, it should allow Fox to rectify harm when they have downgraded Greg Olsen in favor of Brady.
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Throw Tom and his mediocre diffusion capacities and bring Greg and his superb analysis into play.
Axel Hubert
Santa Monica
Enclose
Dear loaders,
Can we please lock up the defensive coordinator Jesse Minter with a lucrative contract and keep him paired with coach Jim Harbaugh in the long term? Do not let this man come out of the building.
Honestly, all loading fanatics everywhere.
Felipe Varela
Whitter
Next movement?
Many of your letters editors have obtained their wish with the Deshaun Foster shot. Now what?
Vaughn Hardenberg
Westwood
Chip Kelly left the UCLA in bad position in February 2024. The coach carousel had already stopped. Deshaun Foster, who had a nice concert as a half-door coach for the raiders, came across the grenade which was UCLA football. He will probably not remain memories for this sacrifice, but he should be.
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Hans Ghaffari
Incino
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