The Dodgers are gearing up for their next big run, and honestly, after the last game of the 2025 season, the one everyone called “one of the best baseball games ever played,” some folks are feeling pretty zen about the whole thing. Imagine being so calm you can just cue up the Rojas homer or those final outs on your phone anytime you need a mental boost. That’s some serious bliss, baby! But for others, the upcoming tournament holds some real stress, because there are two paths this thing could take that would absolutely drive you nuts.
Dodgers’ Path: Repeat or Reality Check?
Look, the Dodgers totally *could* win it all again. We saw them do it in 2025, right? So just do that again, but even better. They’ve got the firepower with guys like Mookie Betts, Teoscar Hernandez, Freddie Freeman, Max Muncy, Andy Pages, and Tommy Edman. Those guys showed what they could do. The dream scenario is they all just light it up and repeat that 2025 magic. But then there’s the flip side, the one that makes you want to pull your hair out. Remember the “Summer Swoon”? What if Betts, Hernandez, Freeman, Muncy, Pages, Edman, and even Shohei Ohtani suddenly couldn’t hit water from a boat? Especially with runners in scoring position? That kind of failure, man, that would sink the whole ship. Just thinking about it makes you wonder what the heck happened.
The Ultimate Annoyance: A Padres Celebration
Here’s the real kicker, the one scenario that would actually tick you off: if the Padres win the whole darn thing. Seriously, that’s it. Any other National League winner? You’d probably just shrug and say “Oh. Neat.” Maybe a little gag reflex if it was the Cubs, but that’s about it. It’s not even on the level of anger we felt when the San Francisco Giants somehow kept winning World Series titles back in the day. That was pure agita, but at least they’ve been irrelevant ever since, which helps. The Padres are different. They’ve just totally beclowned themselves every single time they’ve actually had expectations put on them, especially those high hopes for a deep playoff run. To see *them* come out on top? That’s not just a loss, that’s a special kind of torment.
So, as the upcoming tournament gets underway, the stakes are clear for the Dodgers. Can they pull off another win and make it a second consecutive year over the month? Or will they stumble, and even worse, watch their division rival, the team that’s constantly underperformed, lift the trophy? This next month is going to be wild.
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Originally reported by True Blue LA.
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