Todd Flora
Jul 20, 2017 · 1 min read

One of the things you have to remember about the Dodgers, though, is that it’s a team and a fan base almost more desperate than the Clippers. I have failed to understand why, in the last 4 years, there haven’t been just as many parallel stories about the Dodgers going nowhere in the playoffs as the Clippers. And yet sports talk radio here, and I think national buzz, is all about the Clippers’ failures to advance. What about the Dodgers?! They won the NL West 3 years in a row and went nowhere. Hell, they won the National League West one year that the Giants went on to win the World Series! Talk about a kick in the shins.

So, here are the Dodgers, awash in Guggenheim money, and there’s a local/regional psychology that if we aren’t doing EVERY-SINGLE-THING possible to win a World Series, that equates to failure. So in many people’s minds, making a move — any move — means that they are trying. And that somehow doing nothing doesn’t give us the backup guy we’ll need and we’ll regret it. … right or wrong as you may be, that’s what you’re up against in making this argument (and yes, my Medium profile pic is me and my wife at a Dodger game… 1st base side!)

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