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Brandon Gomes pushed back on the notion his Dodgers are baseball\u2019s new \u201cEvil Empire,\u201d but someone in the marketing department maybe didn\u2019t get that memo.<\/p>\n
As part of the team\u2019s promo calendar for the 2025 season is Star Wars Night on May 14, and the giveaway is a bobblehead-sized Death Star hovering over Dodger Stadium.<\/p>\n
The Dodgers followed a World Series title with a second straight offseason spending spree that included signing the likes of Blake Snell (five years, $182 million), Japanese phenom Roki Sasaki (minor league deal with a $6.5 million bonus), Tanner Scott (four years, $72 million) and reliever Kirby Yates on a one-year, $13 million deal.<\/p>\n
That came a year after the team paid over a billion dollars in contracts for the likes of two-way star Shohei Ohtani, Japanese hurler Yoshinobu Yamamoto, among others.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s spurred comparisons to the freewheeling spending of the early 1990s Yankees, who threw big-money contracts at big-name free agents, spurring late Red Sox executive Larry Lucchino labeling the rival franchise the \u201cEvil Empire\u201d in 2002.<\/p>\n
Now, however, the Dodgers have inherited the \u201cStar Wars\u201d-themed branding \u2014 perfect for a promo night on the calendar.<\/p>\n
Unless you\u2019re, say, the team\u2019s general manager, like Gomes, who doesn\u2019t really embrace the idea.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are focused on and tasked with making sure our team is as good as possible,\u201d Gomes said on \u201cThe Show,\u201d with Joel Sherman and Jon Heyman in January. \u201cIf that is creating ire elsewhere, that\u2019s fine, because I think that means our fans are very happy, which is what the goal is. I think the nature of our sport, the nature of the playoff format, you can be technically the best team and it doesn\u2019t guarantee you anything.<\/p>\n
\u201cAll we\u2019re doing is making sure that we have as talented a team as possible.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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