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Bill Shaikin: Winning a division might be routine for Dodgers, but it should still be treasured

Manager Dave Roberts of the Los Angeles Dodgers celebrates with the team in the locker room after defeating the Arizona Diamondbacks at Chase Field on Sept. 13, 2022, in Phoenix.

LOS ANGELES — Among the salty pearls of wisdom bequeathed to us by the late, great Tommy Lasorda: "This [bleeping] job is not that [bleeping] easy."

We would do well to remember Lasorda's words today. The Dodgers have won the National League West, again, and Los Angeles greets the news with a shrug. The Dodgers have been so relentlessly successful that the 162-game grind has been popularly reduced to something akin to six months of preseason

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