{"id":600940,"date":"2026-03-02T03:14:19","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T03:14:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/600940\/"},"modified":"2026-03-02T03:14:19","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T03:14:19","slug":"dodgers-dynasty-is-only-helping-the-game-as-dave-roberts-talks-looming-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/600940\/","title":{"rendered":"Dodgers&#8217; dynasty is only helping the game as Dave Roberts talks looming reality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>GLENDALE, Ariz. \u2014 Let\u2019s make this a no-whining zone.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s no crying in baseball, so please, no tears about how the Dodgers are ruining the sport or how they are all but assuring that a salary cap must come to MLB or else there will be a no-play Armageddon next year.<\/p>\n<p>I have heard it all before and think it is d\u00e9j\u00e0 dumb. The last time a team looked like these Dodgers, the sport survived the Yankees Dynasty. Heck, I would argue it thrived because of it \u2014 much like it is again, unless you think three straight years of rising attendance for the first time in two decades and a 2025 World Series that set a global viewing record is not thriving.<\/p>\n<p>Yet, here we are a quarter of a century later, listening to the same complaints though:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"GLENDALE, Ariz. \u2014 Let\u2019s make this a no-whining zone. There\u2019s no crying in baseball, so please, no tears&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":600941,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2406],"tags":[5,1560,39,1165,4332,4333,774,57,3224,4331,4,185,430,428,151],"class_list":{"0":"post-600940","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles-dodgers","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-dave-roberts","10":"tag-dodgers","11":"tag-la","12":"tag-la-dodgers","13":"tag-ladodgers","14":"tag-los-angeles","15":"tag-los-angeles-dodgers","16":"tag-losangeles","17":"tag-losangelesdodgers","18":"tag-mlb","19":"tag-sports","20":"tag-sports-columnists","21":"tag-sports-plus","22":"tag-spring-training"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116157406698055936","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=600940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600940\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/600941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=600940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=600940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=600940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}