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.
This is L.A. baby! When the Dodgers win, we all win—but hold up. I get it.
There are people already lining up to turn, or continue to turn, this Dodgers team into a call to reform baseball or as a civil rights protest of some sort. And, I mean, go to the parade, if that’s what you’re into. Protest it, if that’s what you’re into. But don’t forget for a second there are life-long Dodgers fans who will not feel safe. And don’t forget there are life-long Dodgers fans who needed this win. In some cases, those are the same people.
I don’t have the stomach to boycott the team I love, using a phone and a social media platform respectively owned by billionaires who are also complicit in these dehumanizing raids.