The LA city council is going full New Orleans. And you never want to go full New Orleans.
The Los Angeles City Council is expected to vote within the next week on a resolution urging Major League Baseball to recall the championship trophies presented to the Houston Astros in 2017 and the Boston Red Sox in 2018 “and award them to the Los Angeles Dodgers.”
Councilman Gil Cedillo, one of the sponsors of the resolution, said he expects the council to approve it. As of late Wednesday, the city clerk had not yet determined what day the resolution would come up for a vote.
Cedillo, whose district includes Dodger Stadium, said neither the Dodgers nor his constituents had requested the resolution.
“This is an equity and justice thing,” Cedillo said. “Who was the best team in 2017? Who was the best team in 2018? It was the Dodgers. They got beat by teams that were cheating.
“Do they need to be told that they shouldn’t have a title?”
https://www.latimes.com/sports/dodgers/story/2020-01-15/los-angeles-city-council-vote-mlb-award-dodgers-championship-trophies?_amp=trueThe Dodgers lost to the Astros in the 2017 World Series and to the Red Sox in the 2018 World Series. If Cedillo believes the Dodgers were the rightful champions, would he support using city funds to stage a parade to commemorate those championships?
“I don’t know. That’s a different question,” he said. “I am focused right now on the Dodgers and the Dodgers fans getting justice. The mere acknowledgment is so significant. There has to be an acknowledgment the best team in baseball those two years was the Dodgers.”
Cedillo said the Dodgers, and the people of Los Angeles, were robbed of what they deserved. He said he was not worried about critics that might dismiss his resolution as a publicity stunt