LA Times column ripping Dodgers for wanting joint parade with Rams is trash

Media nowadays is great. Never a logical stance. One side or the other, no matter how egregious, embarrassing or ridiculous. It’s proof of how modern day politics reached its unthinkable polarization levels. It’s all about shock value and attention.

And fans would have to admit it’s upsetting that this kind of rhetoric is attempting to make a mockery of the Los Angeles Dodgers.

On Tuesday, the day before the Los Angeles Rams Super Bowl parade, LA Times columnist Bill Plaschke blasted the Dodgers and Lakers for wanting a joint celebration with their neighboring sports franchise.

Any reason there needs to be this much vitriol directed at two 2020 championship teams that accomplished great things and were deprived of the final cathartic moment because of a global pandemic?

Bill Plaschke ripping the Dodgers for wanting a joint parade with Rams is sad.

Here was Plaschke’s “response” to both LeBron James and Justin Turner, both of whom suggested all three championship squads get together for one big, epic celebration:

"“Sorry, King. This is not your party. You were denied your moment, and it stinks, but more than a full season has passed since then, and only four current players were on that title team and just … no.” … The Dodgers have played an entire season since their title, and failed to defend it, and it’s too bad, but their moment of glory has passed and nothing will bring it back. Besides, as Turner so aptly wrote, the players are locked out, so you’re going to have a Dodgers parade without Andrew Friedman or Dave Roberts?“Neither the Lakers nor Dodgers were part of the Rams’ torturous six-year climb to the top. Neither the Lakers nor Dodgers ever had to endure the national criticism like the Rams when they couldn’t fill the Coliseum. Neither the Lakers nor Dodgers had to work so hard to develop a fan base that initially was numb to the returning Rams.”"

Oh ok. So the Rams, who have been in the city of Los Angeles for six years, deserve this moment all by their lonesome because “they earned it”? Plaschke even hilariously mentions Stan Kroenke as the man who “paid for ,” which is among the most disingenuous things ever said since the man is worth nearly $11 billion, used taxpayer money to fund a $5 billion stadium, and totally screwed over the city of St. Louis after relocating the franchise. Give us a break.

The Dodgers snapped a 32-year championship drought in 2020 and the Lakers triumphed that same year after Kobe Bryant tragically passed away. And their “time has passed” because of a once-in-a-lifetime global pandemic that upended almost every person’s life in a major capacity?

If you want us to get inflammatory with our opinion, we’d say that the Rams had to win this Super Bowl or else their entire plan would’ve been a colossal failure and made a mockery. And if they didn’t beat the Cincinnati Bengals and second-year quarterback Joe Burrow on their home turf? You can see all the scathing headlines eating up the papers for the next few months if they had fallen short (which they almost did).

Not to be anti-Rams, but it was a fairly underwhelming championship victory given the circumstances, and they nearly blew it three times along the way. Nothing really made it seem like this team was “beating the odds” or overcoming insurmountable adversity. There was nothing about this run that couldn’t be replicated. Anybody can trade all their draft picks for star players and attempt to go for it all. Good on the Rams for making it happen, but the risk of dealing with the fallout here was much greater than actually capturing the prize.

So the idea that they “earned” this in such a unique way and have no reason to share it with the city’s other championship teams is among the weaker takes we’ve heard. We know we just threw fuel on the fire with that criticism of the Rams, but it was imperative to hash all of that out to truly show why Plaschke’s unfounded anger at the idea of a joint parade was beyond uncalled for.

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