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Two days after winning the 2024 World Series, and four years removed from a 2020 title that was never properly christened, the Dodgers celebrated with all of Los Angeles on Friday, parading through the streets of downtown on open-top double-decker buses before holding a championship rally in front of a packed Dodger Stadium.

Known as “memorials,” these are a kind of online profile for particular dead people created after gravers read their obituaries in their local paper, take it upon themselves to photograph the newly christened grave, and even sometimes go as far as researching the person’s life to record more information on a kind of Facebook profile for the afterlife.

The subjects we chewed over were almost exclusively technical topics, or history, or the sprawling, self-serving institution that Dwight Eisenhower christened the military-industrial complex.

Even his first official game in a Dodgers jersey, in spring training in late February, was christened by an opposite-field Camelback Ranch home run.

The newly christened platform from Fox Corp.,