It all started in 2020, Baseball fans thought that there would not be a season at all. The COVID-19 Pandemic had swept the nation, halting nearly every major North American sport and live event in its wake. Spring Training was canceled, and MLB announced that the season would be postponed “indefinitely”. People were left asking “What’s going to happen? Will we have a season? Will we be able to attend games like before?” They were ultimately answered “yes”… Or maybe more vague “sort of” would better suit what was told. We got “Summer Camp” which was just a renamed and restarted “Spring Training”, but in July. The Season would only consist of 60 Games, not 162. The Canadian Government wouldn’t allow the Blue Jays to play their home games in Toronto at Rogers Center, so they had to play in Buffalo, New York at their Triple-A affiliate ballpark instead. The new Playoff system was expanded to 16 teams, and all games would be played neutral sites. There was no All Star Game that year, which was supposed to be held at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles. Fans got a bubble wrapped version of baseball, players being tested for COVID-19, and even being removed from rosters if they tested positive. But in the end, what really mattered to the Dodgers and their fans, was that they won the World Series for the first time since the ’80s.
Then came the 2021 Atlanta Braves, 2022 Houston Astros, 2023 Texas Rangers. The “Covid Season” as it became known was a distant memory by the year 2024. But what people had forgotten were the losers; prior to the 2020 shortened season, the L.A. Dodgers were the losers of both the 2017 and 2018 World Series matchups. The 2024 Dodgers World Series roster consisted of familiar names like Blake Treinen, Andy Pages, Mookie Betts, Freddie Freeman, Yoshinobu Yamamoto and Shohei Ohtani, who were all on the 2025 World Series roster as well. Who was also there at the helm, solid as always standing as Manager of the Dodgers back in the devastating 2017-18 losses was David “Doc” Roberts. He had taken the helm beginning 2016, and now has arguably made the team into a Dynasty. With back to back Championships, three trophies in the last six years and five appearances in the last nine World Series matchups shows dominance in the National League, or Baseball for that matter, rivaled by no other team in the last decade than maybe the Houston Astros who won* twice and appeared in three World Series matchups between 2017-22. But that barely touches what the Dodgers are doing in Los Angeles. Sure, they’ve got a near half billion dollar roster, if you don’t count the deferrals in contracts with players like Shohei Ohtani, Mookie Betts and Freddie Freeman, but numbers are numbers and you can’t argue with results. The word “Dynasty” doesn’t get thrown around easily by sports commentators, but that’s where the Dodgers have found themselves. I can say that any doubter will be quieted if they win again in 2026 and three-peat, which hasn’t happened since the 1998-00 New York Yankees. And that Yankees team was, without a doubt, a dynasty.
