Anything less than becoming the first repeat World Series champions since the 1998-99-2000 New York Yankees would be considered a failure.

Maybe the Dodgers are trying to antagonize the followers of those teams that are pinching pennies, or those who have spent the winter rationalizing their lack of aggressiveness in player procurement.

By those standards, high ones but not unreasonable for a team that has won 10 division titles in 11 seasons, the Dodgers are 27 outs from failure after Monday night’s 4-2 loss to the Arizona ...

And it is a little early – way, waaaay too soon, in fact – to crown the Dodgers as the best team ever, or assume that they’ll erase the major-league record of 116 victories in a season.

You want the classic example of failure not being an option? We’re watching it, continuing Thursday afternoon when the 2-0 Dodgers play their home opener against Detroit after raising the 2024 ...