The Dodgers and Blue Jays are MLB’s best in 2025. Not just on the field but in their connection to LA and Toronto’s LGBTQ communities.
There are many reasons to get excited about the 2025 World Series — and not just for the matchup between otherworldly baseball maestro Shohei Ohtani and second generation superstar Vladimir Guerrero Jr.
Simply put, this might be the gayest World Series of all time.
Yes, even gayer than the one with Glenn Burke.
Both the Los Angeles Dodgers and Toronto Blue Jays are exemplars of Pride for the rest of MLB, annually hosting two of the most successful Pride Nights in the sport and setting the bar for connecting to the LGBTQ communities of Los Angeles and Toronto.
Now these two franchises are playing on baseball’s biggest stage. And they’ve brought a bit of West Hollywood and Church-Wellesley with them along the way.
Los Angeles Dodgers
Following a sweep of the Milwaukee Brewers in an NLCS that had all the competitive balance of the search results for “dom/sub” on Cockyboys, Dodgers manager Dave Roberts took the microphone during his team’s pennant celebration.
With tongue planted in cheek, Roberts whipped the Dodger Stadium crowd into a frenzy by proclaiming, “Before the season started, they said the Dodgers are ruining baseball. Let’s get four more wins and really ruin baseball!”
This could have backfired spectacularly. In so many words, Roberts was essentially telling his players, “Let’s win the World Series so we can experience what it feels like to be Rob Manfred.”
That’s a life goal no one should ever have.
As a baseball fan, I certainly understand how most of the universe sees the Dodgers payroll or their galaxy of stars and rages about them making a mockery of the game’s sense of fair play. But as a baseball gay, I can’t help but look at the Dodgers organization and think that in so many ways, they’re telling MLB that this is the way every team should operate.
For example, during every game in the ownership seats sit Billie Jean King and Ilana Kloss, perhaps the most famous LGBTQ power couple in sports who have been together for over four decades.
