Dodgers to White House? Yes

Should the Dodgers visit the White House to celebrate their 2025 World Series victory?

Yes, of course.

The club should follow tradition, enjoy the honor, and ignore calls from anti-ICE activists to stay home.

Some pundits, focused on active politics, pressured the Dodgers to make the visit.

That would be stupid.

Baseball is a game, a game, a pastime.

With spring training almost here, key pundits will focus on topics such as players, rosters and rivalries; the Automated Balls-Strike Challenge System debuting this year; and average prospects for a 162-game season.

Instead, some are pressuring the Dodgers to make silly political moves.

Naysayers are not supported (pun intended).

It’s a great honor, since at least 1925, for a World Series winner to visit the White House in honor of the feat — regardless of who’s in the presidency.

Dodger Blue adorns the Biden White House in 2021, after the club’s 2020 title, and the Trump White House in 2025, after the club’s 2024 win.

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Team manager Dave Roberts is right: “I’m going to the White House,” he says in 2026. “. . . I will continue to try to do what the culture says and not try to make political statements, because I am not a politician.”

That approach serves his team, and the wider culture, well.

Americans are fed up with politics bleeding into every aspect of life, from sports to education to the Grammys and other entertainment.

Calls for a political boycott of sports are divisive and alienating at a time when we need more unity, not less.

Scratching the White House visit won’t achieve anything constructive.

So the right call is obvious, like throwing down to the heart of the plate.

The Dodgers should focus on chasing a three-peat and ditch the ridiculous calls to skip the (typical) meet and greet.