The Making Of The Dodgers Dynasty: A Special Edition

In Episode 4 of “The Dodgers Post,” a special Thursday edition, The California Post’s Dodgers reporters Jack Harris and Dylan Hernandez sit down outside the team’s training facility in Glendale, Arizona, and take us back to how our beloved boys in blue were built to become back-to-back World Series champions. The guys talk about all the greats, including Clayton Kershaw, Justin Turner, Mookie Betts and more. Of course, the story culminates with the Dodgers’ addition of Shohei Ohtani. In the end, the question becomes: “How long can they keep it going?” And Jack and Dylan lay out just how hard it is to win it all in baseball. 00:00 Intro 02:24 Going back to the Frank McCourt ownership 06:34 Manny Ramirez, bankruptcy and beers on Dylan 10:30 Spending big on Puig  12:14 The Guggenheim era begins 16:21 A key shift in philosophy  18:22 The signing of Shohei  22:20 A TV deal that shifted the future 31:30 The front office/player dynamic