Postseason Baseball Needs a New Attitude

Watching the baseball playoffs on Fox (shooommmmm) is really great (whooooooosh). Their coverage (whaaaaappp) is really great (shooooooooohhh): candid (zip), informative (zap) and unobtrusive (kooowhaaammmy!!!). Fox attitude? How about a secondary audio program with only the ambient sounds of the game, featuring no announcers and no sound effects?

MARC GERBER

Malibu

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Why aren’t these umpires trained to recognize what a strike is through the use of overhead cameras? Or use the overhead cameras to force an improvement.

This has turned into a bad joke on the hitters.

PHILIP M. HOADLEY

Escondido

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People who think the umpiring in this year’s playoffs has reached an all-time low just haven’t been watching baseball for the past quarter-century. For example, replays consistently prove that runners are being called out despite not being tagged. The umpires have unilaterally changed the rule from requiring a tag to simply calling a runner out if the throw beats him. It’s lazy, and it disgraces the game.

H. ANTHONY MEDLEY

Marina del Rey