In case it wasn’t apparent sufficient of their offseason prowess, the Los Angeles Dodgers are doing every thing they’ll to deliver house one other championship.
The motivation, as stated by Dodgers president of baseball operations Andrew Friedman in a dialog with The Orange County Register’s Invoice Plunkett, has extra to do with what occurred after the ultimate pitch was thrown in Sport 5 of the World Sequence.
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“The parade actually had a profound impact on guys,” Friedman stated. “Speaking to them, there’s a actual sense that they wish to do no matter is feasible to have that feeling once more and an actual dedication to doing every thing they’ll to make this a golden period of Dodgers baseball.”
The 2024 parade was extremely particular to the Dodgers, particularly for the gamers who had been part of the 2020 World Sequence squad that didn’t get a parade across the metropolis because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
To not point out, Dodgers legend Fernando Valenzuela tragically handed away at 63 years previous two days after Los Angeles earned a spot within the World Sequence.
The championship parade befell on what would have been his sixty fourth birthday.
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The Dodgers weren’t the one L.A. workforce that gained a championship in 2020, because the NBA’s Los Angeles Lakers not solely gained the championship that season, but in addition had been denied a parade because of pandemic protocols.
As Los Angeles appears to be like to turn into the primary repeat champions of the baseball world in a quarter-century, opposing followers and critics have tried to solid doubt with the phrase ‘complacency.’
A workforce so dominant coming off a World Sequence win that has retooled their roster to look even higher than the 12 months prior can both work even tougher to make historical past, or stoop right down to the hampered expectation of onlookers.
Supervisor Dave Roberts doesn’t consider this will likely be an element within the slightest, saying, “It’s not of their DNA. It’s not in my DNA,” because the supervisor appears to be like to have an excellent higher 2025.
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