Clayton Kershaw, Mookie Betts and Walker Buehler are among the 2020 Dodgers that are would to finally celebrate a World Series title with fans in L.A.
Clayton Kershaw deserves a parade. So does Los Angeles.
Let’s do this, shall we?
Four years ago, the Dodgers won the World Series, but a pandemic canceled the parade.
These Dodgers are four wins from a parade, four wins from a civic celebration that would toast the greatest pitcher of our generation and a golden age in the history of a storied franchise, four wins that would let out a chorus of raucous joy from players and fans deprived of a proper party, four wins from more than a million folks getting together for gratification delayed far too long.
“The fans definitely deserve it,” Dodgers owner Mark Walter said Sunday, after the team won the National League pennant.
Standing in the way of a parade: the American League champions, the New York Yankees.
“We didn’t come here to win the pennant,” Walter said. “We came here to win the World Series.”
On the night the Dodgers won the 2020 World Series — as the home team, but playing in a coronavirus bubble in Texas — then-mayor Eric Garcetti told me he intended to organize a celebration — if not a parade, then some sort of socially distanced party.
