Not that this had anything to do with anything, but the Los Angeles Dodgers were humiliated by their archrival this weekend after deciding to host and honor a group of anti-Catholic drag queens at their Pride Night event on Friday.
The weekend began as awfully as it ended for the Dodgers. On Friday, the team bestowed the “Community Heroes” award on the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, a group of drag queens who routinely mock the Catholic faith by performing grotesque sexual acts while using religious imagery, garb, and symbolism.
L.A.’s Major League Baseball is inviting the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, drag street performance group to accept a “community hero award” on the field of Dodger Stadium at LGBTQ+ Pride Night on June 16.
This is one of their performance. pic.twitter.com/XvnR9BtAkc— I Meme Therefore I Am 🇺🇸 (@ImMeme0) May 24, 2023
Fans barely outnumbered cameramen and security guards as the Dodgers honored the “Sisters” in front of what appeared to be 50 people.
DODGER STADIUM-The “Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence” are recognized for Pride night to a mostly empty audience.
Two Dodgers fan nearby begin loudly booing after they’re announced: pic.twitter.com/OO6NT5RIc8
— Savanah Hernandez (@sav_says_) June 17, 2023
Meanwhile, outside the stadium, thousands of pro-Catholic demonstrators protested and, at one point, even blocked one of the main entrances to the stadium.
BREAKING: Thousands of Catholics have shut down the main entrance to Dodger Stadium on Vin Scully avenue in protest of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence being honored tonight.
They are now lining the sidewalks and have taken over the entire block: pic.twitter.com/F5CSDvuap8
— Savanah Hernandez (@sav_says_) June 17, 2023
As bad as things were for the Dodgers before the games started, they didn’t get any better once they started playing.
The Dodgers dropped their Pride Night game to their hated rival, the San Francisco Giants, 7-5. It got worse, though, much worse. On Saturday, the Dodgers were absolutely hammered by the Giants, 15-0, in the team’s worst home loss since the William McKinley administration.
At 15-0, the Dodgers suffered their largest home shutout loss in 125 years.
On September 20, 1898, the Pirates won 15-0 at New Washington Park against the Brooklyn Dodgers.
Those 2 games make up the largest home shutout losses in Dodgers franchise history. pic.twitter.com/FfWllyVgcD
— ESPN Stats & Info (@ESPNStatsInfo) June 18, 2023
And on Sunday, the Giants completed the sweep and took their first series from the Dodgers in Los Angeles since July of 2021 with a 7-3 victory. So, to recap, the Dodgers alienated thousands of their loyal fans, virtually every national and California-based Catholic diocese and political organization, and angered millions of Christians of every denomination nationwide.
Not to mention, you know, offending God.
Then, the Dodgers suffered their worst loss in 125 years while getting swept in a three-game series at home by their archrival for only the sixth time since both teams moved to California in 1958.
But again, I’m sure the Dodgers’ decision to honor a group known for making a grotesque mockery of Catholicism had nothing to do with any of that.