Dodgers Have Become a Joke

Guy calls up the Dodgers’ front office and asks to speak to Paul DePodesta. Receptionist says, “I’m sorry, sir, Mr. DePodesta doesn’t work here anymore.” Guy says thanks and hangs up.

An hour later, the guy calls again, gets the same receptionist and asks again to speak to DePodesta. Again, the receptionist says, “I’m sorry, Mr. DePodesta doesn’t work here anymore” and the guy hangs up.

Another hour later, the same guy calls and again asks for DePodesta. The receptionist says “I’ve told you twice, Mr. DePodesta doesn’t work here anymore. Why do you keep calling back?”

The guy says, “I just like hearing it.”

DAVID JAMES

Long Beach

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At the rate things are going, the term “Dodgers organization” will soon be an oxymoron.

MARK HIGGINS

Van Nuys

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Never in my more than 40 years as a Dodger fan have I wished for the good old days -- the Fox era.

RON YUKELSON

San Luis Obispo

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One down (DePodesta), two to go (Frank and Jamie).

JOHN KOENIG

Los Angeles

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Congratulations, Frank, on admitting to a mistake and getting rid of Paul DePodesta. It takes a big man to do that. Now take one more giant step -- out the door, that is.

Selling the team is the best way to bring my Dodgers back to respectability. Unfortunately, they’re probably not worth as much as they used to be, but we all know who’s to blame for that.

ERIC MONSON

Temecula

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The Oakland A’s prove that the Moneyball concept is sound. It may threaten the old guard but it works. Paul DePodesta won last year, and he would have won this year, had it not been for a rash of injuries. His firing is very revealing. It shows that Frank McCourt is desperate and weak, because weak people need scapegoats.

There is something systemically wrong with the Dodgers, and it starts with the ownership. Can the fans fire the McCourts?

MICHAEL MCKINNEY

Irvine

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So Frank McCourt explains his firing of Paul DePodesta by saying that he “was pushed to the breaking point” by the Dodgers’ inability to put together back-to-back winning seasons. McCourt should have realized that the beginning of the end took place on July 31, 2004, when DePodesta traded away Paul Lo Duca, Guillermo Mota, Juan Encarnacion and Dave Roberts.

AMY KENT BERKE

Calabasas

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Dodger owners continue to listen to someone whose last notable achievement was helping Kirk Gibson up the dugout steps in the ninth inning of Game 1 in the 1988 World Series.

PAT JACOBS

Temple City

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If the McCourts are going to let Whinin’ Bill Plaschke make their personnel decisions for them, perhaps they ought to just bring him in full time. At least then we wouldn’t have to read that tripe four mornings a week.

DAN REINES

Westlake Village