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Bill Shaikin

Bill Shaikin: Winning a division might be routine for Dodgers, but it should still be treasured

LOS ANGELES — Among the salty pearls of wisdom bequeathed to us by the late, great Tommy Lasorda: "This [bleeping] job is not that [bleeping] easy."

We would do well to remember Lasorda's words today. The Dodgers have won the National League West, again, and Los Angeles greets the news with a shrug. The Dodgers have been so relentlessly successful that the 162-game grind has been popularly reduced to something akin to six months of preseason play.

Your team might start its season in April. Our team starts its season in October.

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