The Los Angeles Dodgers are planning to visit the White House tomorrow to meet with the ancient catcher's mitt some people recognize as our president.
For so many in Los Angeles, watching their hometown team play nice with a racist authoritarian who this year alone has attacked another country, continued helping to arm a genocide, tried to take your tax dollars for personal gain, ruled over an immigration enforcement operation that has shattered tens of thousands of lives and killed multiple people and . . . we could go on.
Because it's that last point that especially pisses off L.A. Dodger fans, who have watched the team watching the team ignore its legacy of forced removal in Chavez Ravine, to instead market itself and pump up the hometown pride of Mexican and Central American communities in this city for decades, all the while charging us all bazillions of dollars for parking and domestic beer.
Seeing Freddy Freeman, Shohei Ohtani, Max Muncy, Andy Pages, Kyle Tucker, and the rest of those blue-and-gray bums accept the honors of a President who has so cruely targeted, bullied, insulted, slandered, damaged, and unbuckled our immigrant communities and families is not too far off from off from seeing Charles Lindbergh get strapped with the Service Cross of the German Eagle by a cigar-chomping Hermann Goring.
To some fans, it's Complicity with those bent on ravaging our country, our relations, and our lives.