MLB analyst’s take on Dodgers dynasty is so wrong that fans simply have to laugh

Now that the Los Angeles Dodgers have won back-to-back World Series titles for the first time since 2000, not to mention three titles in six years, almost no one has a problem calling them baseball’s latest dynasty. From the moment the Dodgers pulled off the unthinkable and came back to beat the Toronto Blue Jays in Game 7, most fans and pundits have acknowledged that we are witnessing a modern dynasty. But one notable analyst vehemently disagrees.

A couple of days following Game 7, MLB analyst Rob Parker joined Brian Kenny on MLB Now and refuted the notion that the current Dodgers are a dynasty.

“Is this a dynasty?” Kenny asked Parker, somewhat rhetorically.

“No, it's not a dynasty,” Parker replied emphatically. “First of all, the Blue Jays choked and gave the Dodgers a World Championship. That parade today in LA should have been in the North Pole because that was a Christmas present from the Blue Jays to the Dodgers.”

Rob Parker’s argument that the Dodgers aren’t a dynasty is almost too hilarious to listen to

Hearing the above comments from Parker, Kenny interjected to offer a sound rebuttal. “They didn’t choke it away,” Kenny said. “They should have won a number of times (and) they didn't, but the Dodgers did win … they did hit a home run in the ninth … they had a home run in the 11th. They won it.”

Parker then continued with his argument, somehow finding a way to diminish Miguel Rojas’s season-saving home run.

“Let me tell you this,” Parker explained. “They were one ninth-place hitter out away from this being a billion-dollar flop. … If (Shohei) Ohtani hit a home run in the ninth, I would buy into it … you can't give it up to Rojas in that spot.”

Kenny then made further rebuttals, which prompted Parker to rest on the final peg of his stance — that a “dynasty”, in his eyes, entails either three championships in four years, or three straight championships.

“You have to win three in a row or three out of four to be a dynasty,” Parker said. “The Giants won every other year; they don't count as a dynasty. They never even won back-to-back. … If (the Dodgers) won three out of four, I would buy a dynasty. Three in a row, a dynasty.”

Well, there you have it. The Dodgers still have a lot more work to do to establish that they are, indeed, a dynasty (at least in Parker’s eyes). They better have a productive offseason and win another World Series in 2026 (convincingly this time!), otherwise they are in danger of being called a huge disappointment by Parker next offseason. Can't have that while we spend the entirety of the next year celebrating, right Dodgers fans?