Let's Run It Back

Every holiday season, I get a little ping from our domain service provider to ask if I want to renew the website for another year. And lately, I've been debating this (minor) annual investment.

We started this blog in 2006, when the Dodgers were listless and pathetic and seemed to be fading away into irrelevance, beset by incompetent and miserly management regimes, not to mention three championship titles from the rival team up north. Sons of Steve Garvey was a way to keep up with the Dodgers' day to day travails, a spot for fans to vent about missed opportunities and postseason disappointments.

The late 2010s were especially painful, as the Dodgers' management got smarter, the team got better, and the proximity to a World Series Championship got tantalizingly close. But we couldn't get over the top, thwarted once by a band of cheaters and once by late injuries and a surging Red Sox team.

And then, everything changed. The Dodgers not only got better, we became dominant.

The COVID-shortened Championship title in 2020. The signings of Mookie Betts, Freddie Freeman, Shohei Ohtani, and Yoshinobu Yamamoto. The dramatic 2024 championship over our historic rival, the New York Yankees. The even more dramatic World Series Championship over the Toronto Blue Jays in 2025, arguably the best World Series ever.

We now have nine World Championship titles, eight of which happened with the franchise based in Los Angeles. And we reloaded this summer to actually appear even stronger than either of the last two years.

SoSG Orel will corroborate that at the beginning of the 2025 season, I predicted we would come up short but win the title in 2026. Our bullpen maladies last year almost made my prediction come true, but our starters had just enough in the tank to edge out the Jays for the series victory.

This year, we're on the precipice of a potential three-peat.

I'm excited.

Meanwhile, our website traffic has sunk to microscopic lows. The website now looks so antiquated, it almost appears like a malware or phishing site. It's clear that the original audience for this blog has since moved on, and yet here we are, still using the blog to post random thoughts and feelings about the team we love.

The team that everyone else in the country hates, because we spend a lot of money and win a lot of games. But the truth is, they're all jealous of our successes.

And this blog is testament to how much fun the ride has been, decades later.

Sons of Steve Garvey has become a neighborhood bar so dark and grimy that your eyes have to dilate before you can make out any sights--and right after you're hit by the stench of decades-old cigar smoke baked into the oak furniture and leather seating upholstery, you realize that there's just one other person in the bar with the hunched-over bartender behind the counter.

I've paid the annual domain fee for another year, which means I'll be posting for this 2026 Dodgers season.

Here's hoping you come in and take a seat.

Let's run this one back.