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For a year and a half, Kevin de León — “that old serpent,” as Revelations 12:9 would have called him — had stymied opponents who demanded his resignation for his role in a secretly recorded, racist conversation.

For a year and a half, De León — “that old serpent,” as Revelations 12:9 would have called him — had stymied opponents who demanded that he resign from his Eastside seat for his role in a secretly recorded, racist conversation that scandalized the city in 2022.

So it dawned on Dodgers pitcher Brent Honeywell Jr., catcher Will Smith and bench coach Danny Lehmann that the serpent in the Dodgers’ dugout on Monday was real and would be best avoided.

"I don’t know this snake, this snake don’t know me," she declared, then screamed as someone tried to remove the serpent from her body.

“I’m not playing,” she says, laughing, showing off a gold ring with a serpent design.