More on Rick, Ross and Vin

Can you tell me why people write such sour letters about our Dodger announcers, and why Rick Monday and Ross Porter should have to read such wounding comments? Rick has a nice baritone voice, he knows baseball and I do not find him at all confrontational or surly. And what baseball fan hasn’t swapped statistics with his buddies, as Ross does? To toss in a number of these adds a historical dimension to the play-by-play. I think we have fine announcers.

MORTIMER CHAMBERS

Los Angeles

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We’re happy to see that other Dodger fans are picking up on Rick-a Monday. We’ve long been annoyed by his arch, “Nineteen and ninety-seven,” and we’ve been trying to figure out what’s with all the distracting extra A’s he puts in. Perhaps Rick took elocution lessons and it is a technique to help him emphasize his final consonants that has run amok.

Ross Porter, on the other hand, prefers to remain his charming natural self and dispenses with as many consonants as possible. “Rawl Mon’sy’s up in the bom’n uh the thir in’ing, two on, nobawee ow.”

RICHARD R. JOHNSON

FLORA PLUMB JOHNSON

Los Angeles

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Now that it is open season on Dodger broadcasters, please tell Vin Scully that his ever-lengthening minutes of silence after dramatic plays make me wonder if I should just wait until the 11 o’clock news to find out exactly what happened.

Call me old-fashioned, but I prefer to hear the action as it occurs, not after the fact.

I know Vin wants us to feel the excitement of the moment, but after years of listening to AM radio, I have concluded that the human ear cannot distinguish between cheering crowd noise and radio static.

ALBERT OKURA

Chino