Frank talk

Why is it that whenever Frank McCourt talks about accountability and developing a winning culture [July 11] all I hear is the teacher talking to Charlie Brown -- wonk, wonk, wonk.

Pete Russo

San Clemente

So Frank McCourt is getting frustrated, huh? Well, join the club, Frank. We’ve been frustrated with your erratic ownership since you purchased the club four years ago. You’re the one who allowed a winning team to be dismantled under Paul DePodesta in 2004. You’re also the one that’s been through three managers and two general managers in four years.

The history of Dodgers moves at the trading deadline is littered with mistakes, from John Tudor to Jeff Shaw to Hee-Seop Choi, so unless there is a free agent named Kirk Gibson out there, leave the team well enough alone and stick to what you do best, posing for photos.

Jim Patton

Manhattan Beach

So Bill Shaikin thinks the Dodgers should have given up Matt Kemp (and more) just to get CC Sabathia -- for only three months yet, because the pitcher becomes a free agent next year.

You would think the Dodgers scribes like Shaikin, Plaschke and Simers would have learned from the Lasorda years that the only way to field a championship team is to build from within, show patience with their young players and not panic.

Can’t Shaikin see that the Blue Crew already has one of the best pitching staffs in baseball, and that Kemp, Loney, Ethier, DeWitt are only in their first full season in the majors, and doing quite well at that? It’s the aging veterans who are either hurt or underperforming -- and that’s an understatement when referencing Andruw Jones.

Skip Usen

Santa Monica