Comment: From a distance, the Laing Couples have a very familiar freedom after defeating the Dodgers

Madison, WIS. – In a time of money in the state of Wisconsin, where the orange leaves fall and everyone else seems to be wearing the red and white of the University of Wisconsin Badger, the pride and pain of the Dodger’s benefits in 2025 are played in the family of Carolina SAMMIED AND SIMS.

They are urban professionals, native Southern Californians – he’s from Eagle Rock, she’s from Santa Ana; They met at UCLA – and are longtime friends who have lived in Madison for ten years but are still involved in open immigration and anti-national activism back home. I visited them recently as part of a middle school speaking tour and found myself in the middle of a debate that has permeated the lives of so many people we know back home.

It may be impossible to fade completely no matter how many rings and parades the boys in Blue Rack Up:

Okay, okay, fake, for this year’s World Serip Champ?

The Dodgers, on the other hand, won back-to-back titles for the first time and became the first team to do so in a generation. This scene looked like Los Angeles at its best: people from all over the world putting aside their egos to win and entertain millions of Angelos in the year of angels.

LA, a small town united with winning – Weather, parties, people, food – suffered a fatal fire that started with the deadly Eaton and the pallocks sworn by the Trump Administrations oaths of looting.

That’s where the rub came in for Sarmiento and other Dodger fans. For them, the actions and performance of the team this year were not permanent.

“For me, it started when the Dodgers went to the white house,” the 45-year-old said as we walked by their blue house. He took particular issue with shotstop mookie betts, who skipped the white house visit in 2019 when he had the world series – winning Boston Red Sox but waved his hand, describing his previous snub as “very selfish.”

“Who Entered His Ear?” He exclaimed, taking out a dried mango for us to eat as we waited for the SIMS to come home. “Since when does resistance to injustice happen? you? “

Sarmiento didn’t grow up a Dodger fan but bought into the team where he and Sims became a couple. They and their two sons often attended Dodgers games on the road and always caught the Dodgers in Milwaukee whenever they played the Dodgers. At one point, manager Dave Roberts “excitedly” signed a jersey when a family ran up to him at the hotel, Sarmiento said.

In Madison, he wore a Dodger sweatshirt and encountered a Mexican flag that he bought because “it was definitely there. ‘”

Indeed, the Dodgers stopped federal agents from entering the Dodger Stadium parking lot in June shortly thereafter la miirra attacked the home depot area. Not long after, the group donated $1 million to the California Community Foundation to give back to the non-funny hearts that help families affected by Trump’s Leviathan deportation.

But as the summer went on, Sarmiento was frustrated that only Dodgers Outfielder Kiké Hernández was talking about the fight against the land invasion and Trump’s deployment of the Navy and the National Guard. He also wondered why Dodger Chairman Mark Walter won’t face lawsuits against companies that invest in business with the Trump impeachment machine. A person has a stake in a private prison company that believes the federal government to take over immigration facilities; Another has a joint venture with palantir, which ece has a contract to build data surveillance systems that would make Sauron’s eye from “The Lord of the Rings” appear as an innocent teddy bear.

“After a while, it’s like a woman who knows her partner is cheating but keeps saying, ‘He’s not a cheater, then you say,’The girl …‘”

I brought up how many Dodger fans I know the Team World Series wins as a big middle finger to Trump.

The heroes of games 6 and 7, who took out Offerders Kiké Hernández and Bongeman Baseman Miguel Rojas, came respectively to Puerto Rico and Venezuela, the Crump Commonwealth, the Crump Commonwealth paid attention and the sticky country attacked. The team’s favorite player, Shohei Ohtani, still proudly speaks his native Japanese despite being in the US for eight years and knowing some English. Tens of thousands of fans turned out for the Dodger Victory Parade and celebration at Dodger Stadium, many of them no doubt.

Is it wrong to let people be happy?

“It’s like Community Benefit Agreements,” Sarmiento replied, referring to a neighborhood strategy that sees them get commitments from developers on issues such as protest issues and lawsuits. “You know what’s coming, so you try to find out you say without it. This year was a political moment that fans couldn’t take and they didn’t, so the Dodgers didn’t give a damn. “

We greeted the Sims as they entered. We both went to the basement, where he watched the national series in exile on the big TV.

“There is a lonely loneliness to be a fried resident here,” said the 48-year-old, although he had the heart to see that the Wisconsin professor Professor Freddie Freeman Persey had arisen earlier in the day. Sims grew up going to Dodger Stadium with his father and remembers going to games by himself in the mid-2000s “when it wasn’t a good time.”

He brought in the Dodger’s co-owner at the time: Frank McCourt, who raised ticket and concession prices for what seems like a year and still owns part of the Dodger Stadium parking lot. Fans responded to his ugly face by protesting at the front and at the games. “It was disappointing not to see that on the field this year, when there was a big problem that happened.”

Sims felt that the Dodger cause was “in conflict” this year. He watched the whole game but he admitted that he found the team celebrating the whole night “as the attacks on the rights of the Dodgers respected.

“It would be easy [for the Dodgers] To make a bland statement – ‘We are a group full of immigrants in a city of immigrants and we are proud of all of us’ – and you will not continue. They have a historical obligation to do so because of their history. “

But -I Root of the Dodger is never an option.

“I want to see people happy. Parade! Free holiday.

Sarmiento joined us. “You’re my political better half,” Sims cracked. “Caro said to choose another game.”

“No I did not!” He answered kindly. “I just said to take a break, for now. To stop for a while.”

Sims admitted that the vintage jacket he used to bring every October as the Dodgers made another playoff run and Wisconsin turned cold was still on. “I’ve never worn anything for a year.”

“When you go to this game!” Sarmiento fired back, heading to visit Milwaukee earlier this year with her local softball team.

“I went with the Valenzuela Jersey to represent LA,” Sims replied as Sarmiento shook his head.

He laughed.

“I love the team. I just don’t like it this one A group for nothing. But that’s what I signed up for. “