Pacing was just a tad off, but I still liked it...

Walter Francis O'Malley was not Benedict Arnold. He was Napoleon Bonaparte. You'll notice his 100th birthday last year passed unnoticed. And he's never been elected to the Hall of Fame. Rather, he is playing poker in hell with Bob Irsay (who moved the Colts out of Baltimore) and Bob Short (who moved the Lakers out of Minneapolis AND the Senators out of Washington). O'Malley always wins those poker games. He cheats, of course. Given the choice between Bush and O'Malley, I'd... flee the country.

Walter and Peter O'Malley had the respect and admiration of their players and the Southern California fans and media. The people to whom they sold the team had neither.

I do understand how New Yorkers feel betrayed by the Dodgers' move to California in 1958. But why do you hold it against the Dodgers and not the Giants, who did the same thing?

Don't ask me, ask my grandparents in Brooklyn, who went to Ebbets Field to watch the Dodgers on a regular basis. The Giants were their most-hated team, and the Yankees were a close second. And I never really liked the fact that there once were two teams called the New York Giants; the name fits the football team a whole lot better than it ever did the baseball team. (Of course, I was raised to be a Cubs fan and suffer through their losing times, but that's just me.)

I used to be a Dodger fan when I lived in L.A. but got tired of the bullshit.

It is high time to let go of this anti Dodger anger that still seems to pervade so many of us older folks. It has been 50 years since they left Brooklyn. I have no doubt that Walter O'Malley ied and cheated his way out of that borough, but Robert Moses was also responsible for refusing to help the Dodger owner purchase the land necessary for a new stadium. I know, I lived in Queens at the time in 1953 when O'Malley started talking about getting the Dodgers a new home. That now barf down the drain. New York has the Mets now; its's been 50 years since the Dodgers moved, Brooklyn is not getting the Dodgers back, and it is time to move on. Many have. Some went to the Yankees, most went to the Mets, others went elsewhere. Say what you want about the LA Dodgers, it is a fact that their fans support them whole heartedly come hell or high water. Any old New Yorkers out there? Just let go. It is high time.

Or maybe just stop worrying about sports altogether.