A Wild Ride
Since the Guggenheim Group took over in 2012, the fortunes of the Los Angeles Dodgers have been on a 13-year ride that any fan who lived through the McCourt years should never take for granted.
For those of us who lived through the McCourt years — divorce filings on the front page of the L.A. Times, missed payroll, parking-lot beatings, the franchise actually filing for bankruptcy — the last thirteen years have been a kind of fever dream.
Since the Guggenheim Group took over in 2012, the Dodgers have:
- Won 12 of 13 NL West titles.
- Reached the World Series four times.
- Won it twice.
- Drawn 3+ million fans every full season.
- Built one of the best player development pipelines in the sport.
Younger fans take this for granted. They shouldn't. Twenty years ago this was a franchise that was a punchline at industry meetings. Today every other team studies what we do.
That doesn't mean Guggenheim is beyond criticism — the payroll math, the deferred contracts, the lack of bench-coach continuity, all of it deserves scrutiny. But the floor of this franchise has been raised so high that the worst Dodger team of the last decade was still a 91-win team.
It's been a wild ride. And it isn't over.
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Discussion (2)
Disagree, not disagreeable
I lived through McCourt. People who didn't have no idea how dark it was. We almost lost the team.
13 years, 2 rings. Take a moment, fellow Dodger fans. We are spoiled and it's earned.