""Let's just take all the sports: here we are at Super Bowl week, I think having a dragon to slay in a sport, if you go back in the NFL, once upon a time, it was the Cowboys, the 49ers had their run. That's not all bad. The Yankees did that in baseball. You could say that's the Dodgers now. Having a dragon to slay isn't necessarily a bad thing for the sport. We want to beat the Dodgers, and we want to be at the top of the division. One day, we want to be the dragon to slay.""
""Baseball is unpredictable as well. When we won three championships in 2010, '12 and '14, we weren't predicted to win any of those years. And we didn't have a top-five payroll any of those years. So hats off to the Dodgers organization, because they've done it with obviously high-priced players, but also they've done it with farm system and development.""
The Los Angeles Dodgers have dominated the NL West, securing 12 division titles in the past 13 seasons and winning back-to-back World Series. Their run was interrupted in 2021 by a San Francisco miracle, but Los Angeles prevailed head-to-head in the subsequent postseason. The Dodgers enter the new season heavily favored to repeat as division champions. Bay Area rivals expressed admiration for the Dodgers' blend of high-priced talent and strong farm development and framed L.A. as a benchmark to beat. MLB leadership also praised the Dodgers' baseball and business operations and pushed back against claims that they are ruining the game.
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