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How My Weird Dodgers Superstition Helped L.A. Win It All

"I heard another barrage of explosions when Will Smith crushed the homer to take the lead in the 11th. But I still didn’t look. It was around this point in the night that I realized it was a silly superstition, my not watching, but there was something deeper going on."

9:11 PM PST on November 2, 2025

Photo by Lexis-Olivier Ray for L.A. TACO.

This is going to sound crazy, but I’m pretty sure the Dodgers only won the 2025 World Series because of an important decision I made: not to watch the game. 

All right…we all know how this ends—cheers, tears, champagne, fireworks, street takeovers, cops on horses hitting people standing in line to celebrate at a bar (?!), beers, tequila, hangovers!

And now we are all cautiously looking forward to a parade in the heart of this Latino majority city at a time when the federal government has made it a point to target and violate hard working Latinos civil rights