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The celebration had hardly begun, when Shohei Ohtani first voiced the theme of the day.

“I’m already thinking about the third time,” he said in Japanese, standing atop a double-decker bus in downtown Los Angeles with hundreds of blue-clad, flag-waving, championship-celebrating Dodgers followers lining the streets around him for the staff’s 2025 World Series parade.

Turns out, he wasn’t alone.

Two days eliminated from a dramatic Game 7 victory that made the Dodgers baseball’s first repeat champion in 25 years, the staff rolled through the streets of downtown and into a sold-out rally at Dodger Stadium on Monday already considering about what lies forward in 2026.

With three titles in the last six seasons, their modern-day dynasty may now be cemented.

But their objective of including to this “golden era of Dodger baseball,” as top government Andrew Friedman has repeatedly called it, is way from over.

“All I have to say to you,” proprietor and chairman Mark Walter told the 52,703 followers at the staff’s stadium rally, “is we’ll be back next year.”

“I have a crazy idea for you,” Friedman echoed. “How about we do it again?”

When supervisor Dave Roberts took the mic, he tripled down on that goal: “What’s better than two? Three! Three-peat! Three-peat! Let’s go.”

When shortstop Mookie Betts, the only energetic participant with 4 World Series rings, adopted him, he quadrupled the expectation: “I got four. Now it’s time to fill the hand all the way up, baby. ‘Three-peat’ ain’t never sounded so sweet. Somebody make that a T-shirt.”

For these history-achieving, legacy-sealing Dodgers, Monday was a reminder of the final word end objective — the type of scene that, as they embark on another short winter, will soon fuel their motivations for another confetti-filled parade this time next 12 months.

“For me, winning a championship, the seminal moment of that is the parade,” Friedman said. “The jubilation of doing it, when you get the final out, whatever game you win it in, is special. That night is special. But to be able to take a breath and then experience a parade, in my mind, that is what has always driven me to want to win.”

“[To] do this for the city, that’s what it’s all about,” first baseman Freddie Freeman added. “There’s nothing that feels as important as winning a championship. And if so happens to be three in a row, that’s what it is. But that’s what’s gonna drive us to keep going.”

Last November, the Dodgers’ first parade in 36 years was a novelty.

Much of the group had been half of the 2020 title staff that was denied such a serenade following that pandemic-altered marketing campaign. They had waited 4 long years to expertise a city-wide celebration. The reception they obtained was sentimental and distinctive.

Now, as third baseman Max Muncy said with a devious grin from atop a makeshift stage in the Dodger Stadium outfield, “it’s starting to get a little bit comfortable up here. Let’s keep it going.”

“Losing,” star pitcher and World Series MVP Yoshinobu Yamamoto added, in English, in a callback to one of his memorable quotes from this past October, “isn’t an option.”

Doing it received’t be simple.

This 12 months, the Dodgers’ win complete went down to 93 in an inconsistent common season. They had to play in the wild-card spherical for the first time since the playoffs expanded in 2022. And in the World Series, they confronted elimination in Games 6 and 7, narrowly successful both to full their quest to repeat.

“I borderline still can’t believe we won Game 7,” fan favourite Kiké Hernández said in a bus-top interview.

But, he rapidly added, “We’re all winners. Winners win.”

Thus, they also get celebrations like Monday’s.

As it was 367 days earlier, the Dodgers winded down a parade route in entrance of tens of hundreds of followers from Temple Street to Grand Avenue to seventh Street to Figueroa. Both on board the double-decker buses and in the frenzied plenty below, elation swirled and drinks flowed.

Once the staff arrived at Dodger Stadium, it climbed atop a blue round riser in the center of the sphere — the ultimate symbolic steps of their ascent back to the mountaintop of the game.

Anthony Anderson launched them to the gang, while Ice Cube delivered the trophy in a blue 1957 Chevy Bel Air.

Familiar scenes, they’re hoping turn into an annual custom.

“Job in 2024, done. Job in 2025, done,” Freeman said. “Job in 2026? Starts now.”

The Dodgers did take time to acknowledge their newfound place in baseball historical past, having turn into just the sixth MLB franchise to win three titles in the span of six years and the first since the New York Yankees of 1998 to 2000 to win in consecutive years.

Where last 12 months’s parade day felt more like an overdue coronation, this one served to crystallize their legacy.

“Everybody’s been asking questions about a dynasty,” Hernández said. “How about three in six years? How about a back-to-back?”

And, on Monday, all the main characters of this storybook accomplishment received their second in the solar.

There was, as staff broadcaster and rally emcee Joe Davis described him, “the Hall of Fame-bound” Roberts, who now only trails Walter Alston in staff historical past with three World Series rings.

“We talked about last year, wanting to run it back,” he said. “And I’ll tell you right now, this group of guys was never gonna be denied to bring this city another championship.”

There was Game 7 hero Miguel Rojas calling up shock October nearer Roki Sasaki, on his birthday, to dance to his “Bailalo Rocky” entrance track; a request Sasaki sheepishly obliged by pumping his fist to the beat.

Yamamoto, coming off his heroic pitching victories in Games 6 and 7, obtained some of the day’s loudest ovations.

“We did it together,” he said. “I love the Dodgers. I love Los Angeles.”

Muncy, Ohtani and Blake Snell also all addressed the gang.

“I’m trying to get used to this,” Snell said.

“I’m ready to get another ring next year,” Ohtani reiterated.

One franchise face who received’t be back for that chase: Clayton Kershaw, who rode into the sundown of retirement by getting one last day at Dodger Stadium, combating back tears as he thanked the gang at the end of his illustrious (and also Hall of Fame-bound) 18-year profession.

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“Last year, I said I was a Dodger for life. And today, that’s true,” Kershaw said. “And today, I get to say that I’m a champion for life. And that’s never going away.”

Kershaw, of course, is one of the few still around from the membership’s darkish days of the early 2010s, when money was scarce and playoff appearances had been unsure and parades had been only issues to dream about — not count on.

As he walks away, however, the staff has been completely remodeled.

Now, the Dodgers have been to 13 straight postseasons. They’ve set payroll data and bolstered their roster with a wave of star signings. They’ve turned the pursuit of championships into a yearly expectation, proud but unhappy with what they’ve achieved to this level.

“I think, definitionally, it’s a dynasty,” said Friedman, the architect of this run with the help of Walter’s deep-pocketed Guggenheim possession group. “But that to me, in a lot of ways, that kind of caps it if you say, ‘OK, this is what it is.’ For me, it’s still evolving and growing. We want to add to it. We want to continue it, and do everything we can to put it at a level where people after us have a hard time reaching.”

On Monday, they raised that bar another notch greater.

“This parade was the most insane thing I’ve ever witnessed, been a part of,” Kershaw said. “It truly is the most incredible day ever to be able to end your career on.”

On Tuesday, the Dodgers’ long highway toward holding another one begins.

“I know they’re gonna get one more next year,” Kershaw told the gang. “And I’m gonna watch, just like all of you.”