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Brilliant but I'm from SF so to me it will always be...

Jonah is a huge LA Dodgers fan. Like, huge. He tapes the games. Watches them after work. He knows the players’ stats and their quirky origin stories.

His phone buzzes with notifications about which players are injured. If he happens to be visiting LA during the season, he makes a point to catch a game at Chavez Ravine. Last time I asked what he was reading, he told me “the Kershaw book” and then said unironically it was “actually really good.”

As a kid in LA I grew up following the Dodgers too. In adulthood my fandom faded. Still, over the years, especially when the Dodgers are having an especially good season, I’ve felt a soft sadness that my hometown team has faded into ambient awareness, just another thing in the background of my life.

Vance telling Orban he loves him is the creepiest thing I've ever seen? youtu.be/dI5-wGGU_Uk?...

As a fan of sport, I feel obligated to mention that this analogy would work much better if Jonah was a Padres fan and not of the franchise that simply spends their way to championships. Remaining committed when your team is constantly on the outside looking in is a challenge.

As a Dodgers fan since 1960 I will partly agree with you. I didn't like it when the Yankees did it, and I'm not proud of the way the Dodgers. Yet, returning to the days of Fox or McCourt is emblematic of the chaos of djTRASH and this administration. Compare Dodgers and Mets, which gives you hope?

Hey, the Dodgers are simply exploiting that lack of anything resembling a real cap on team payrolls. I maybe shouldn’t have described their process that way. Point was that Hungarians, as with Padre fans like Jonah, follow religiously despite the despair, a word alien to contemporary LAD fans.