Bill Plaschke: Reeling Angels need to swallow hard and trade Shohei Ohtani
LOS ANGELES — For all the glitz and glam found within the rosters of Southern California's successful sports teams, there is only one bit of bling that truly interests them. They play for rings. They build for rings. They're irrelevant without rings. They know these championships are not about style, they're about substance, and they win them with more than the gleam of stars, but also the ...
LOS ANGELES — For all the glitz and glam found within the rosters of Southern California's successful sports teams, there is only one bit of bling that truly interests them.
They play for rings. They build for rings. They're irrelevant without rings.
They know these championships are not about style, they're about substance, and they win them with more than the gleam of stars, but also the grit of role players, of depth, of team.
The ball from the Dodgers' last title game ended up in the hands of backup catcher Austin Barnes. Arguably the best player in the Lakers' last crowning game was sixth man Rajon Rondo. The cornerstone of the Rams only title was a hidden hulk named Andrew Whitworth.
