THE CHEAP SEATS with STEVE CAMERON: No need to worry about Dodgers' pitching — or Zags

Relax, Glenn.

Everything will be just fine.

That’s my response to a reader (and fairly frequent correspondent) named Glenn Miller.

I heard from Glenn over the weekend because…

Instead of worrying about his Los Angeles Dodgers, for once, he’s actually pleased with their start.

Glenn could hardly feel anything else, since the Dodgers already are laying waste to the rest of major league baseball — and have to be considered stone cold favorites to repeat as World Series winners.

Los Angeles is 13-3 after winning a series against San Diego, the gang most insiders think might present the sternest challenge to their throne.

Honestly, I think Glenn should hustle over to Seattle — where the champs are visiting for a two-game series against the Mariners that starts tonight.

That’s the baseball equivalent of a papal visit.

Meanwhile, Glenn has one other concern, and this one is a little more serious than fretting over the Dodgers’ pitching staff.

He’s nervous about the Zags.

THIS ONE is a legitimate question.

Glenn wrote: “Will losing Tommy Lloyd hurt Gonzaga?”

For what it’s worth, Glenn, I’ve spent a little time wondering about that, too.

There is absolutely no question that Lloyd was an integral part of the Zags’ success — especially in the areas of international recruiting and player development.

Lloyd and his boss, Mark Few, were the yin and yang of Gonzaga hoops.

I didn’t mean that statement with any disrespect to super-sharp Brian Michaelson, the next assistant in line, or to their colleague, Roger Powell Jr.

There’s an awful of savvy on the Zags bench, in case you haven’t sorted that out for yourself.

So, to Glenn’s point, what kind of hit has Gonzaga absorbed with Lloyd’s departure to rebuild that once-proud program at Arizona?

Certainly, Few has lost the voice he trusted most.

But I think Glenn and everyone else in the Zags’ vocal, passionate fan base can take heart in something very obvious.

Lloyd has been in demand for years, but he simply didn’t leave because he was Few’s anointed successor — and/or he didn’t hear from the boss at someplace he considered ideal.

Few knew how many schools would have loved to land Lloyd.

So…

There’s simply no way the Gonzaga brain trust — mainly Few and AD Mike Roth — wouldn’t have talked this out long ago.

“What happens if Tommy gets the dream offer?”

I’m sure that was discussed for hours, days and months — because if it wasn’t, Few and Roth were guilty of institutional malpractice.

Folks, they’ve been prepared all along.

DOES IT hurt the program to lose Tommy Lloyd?

Of course.

But I mean that only in a short-term, changing-seats-on-the-bench sort of way.

Looking at the big picture, Gonzaga is now an established brand.

That genie ain’t going back in the bottle.

We can assume Few will be staying around a while before he decides to be a full-time fly fisherman.

That’s a given, because he and Lloyd will have talked about it.

If Few were tired of the pressure or something (he isn’t, that’s just not how he rolls), he probably would have made it clear — and Lloyd would be the new Gonzaga head coach in a year or two.

THE WAY it works with the Zags, everyone would have talked about this long ago.

The basketball staff and the university administration would have been in the loop.

However they’re going to handle it, there’s a plan in place, ensuring that the Zags keep getting great kids — and winning at some blistering pace.

There’s even a plan in the vault to deal with Few’s eventual departure, surely.

The only difference between Gonzaga and your Dodgers, Glenn, is that the Zags haven’t won the whole enchilada yet.

It’s coming, though.

Two title-game appearances in the past four tournaments should tell you that.

You needn’t worry about either team, amigo.

Whenever you flip on the TV, you’re likely to see one of them winning.

Or maybe both.

Great fun, eh?

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Steve Cameron’s “Cheap Seats” columns appear in The Press on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. “Moments, Memories and Madness,” his reminiscences from several decades as a sports journalist, runs each Sunday.

Steve also writes Zags Tracker, a commentary on Gonzaga basketball which will be published once monthly during the offseason.