NOT EVERYONE is letting this Dodgers season get them down, Vin Scully coming to his feet during the seventh-inning stretch and singing "God Bless America" with midseason gusto, and I might add, the others in his booth not covering their ears.
CONGRATS TO the Angels on clinching a division title, but as Brad Penny would tell you about the NL wild-card race, "we're still in it," as long as San Diego, Philadelphia, Atlanta and Colorado lose every game they play the rest of the way, and the Dodgers don't lose again.
Penny still thinks they will find Amelia Earhart. Alive somewhere in Oklahoma.
TODAY'S LAST word comes in e-mail from Gary Oyer: "I don't need a 'homer' reporter and the Dodgers deserve criticism, but I'm sick of your constant criticism and name calling. Do you expect the young Dodgers to talk to you after you have painted them the way you do? Ask Vin Scully or your mom, whining critics who never give affirmation are not respected or appreciated and eventually not read."
Thanks for reading.
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T.J. Simers can be reached at t.j.simers@latimes.com. For previous columns by Simers, go to latimes.com/simers.
