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'Every time I wear this, they win': What 22 Dodger fans wore for the World Series
The last time the Dodgers were in the World Series, it was in the thick of the pandemic. So all the games were played at a neutral site in Arlington, Texas, and the capacity was capped at 25% of capacity. The big ‘fit that year was face masks.
Which is to say, Dodger fans weren’t able to show out in their usual way, showcasing a blanket of blue-and-white colors for their boys. This time around, they are getting their chance.
Dressing for a Dodgers game comes down to a simple formula. You have to make sure you’ve got enough blue. “Dodger Blue” is Pantone 294, a vibrant hue that is somewhere between perfect game-day sky blue and Pacific Ocean blue. Go any darker and you start to look like a Brewers fan. Add to that any item or accessory that says “L.A.” or “Dodgers” — “Doyers,” IYKYK.
Beyond that, make sure you’ve got that lucky piece on — if you aren’t wearing that puka shell necklace you wore the first time you sat in the nosebleeds during a midseason win back in 1997, and the Dodgers lose the Series this year? We’re not not saying that’s on you.
Here’s what 22 people wore to watch Game 1. We caught some of them outside Dodger Stadium while they headed to the game, and some at nearby bars.
Oscar Alexander Rodriguez and Angelica Andrade Martinez pose in front of the Fernando Valenzuela memorial at Dodger Stadium before the first World Series game on Friday in Los Angeles.
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Oscar Alexander Rodriguez and Angelica Andrade Martinez
What part of town do you live in?
Oscar: East L.A.
Angelica: I work down the street. We are born and raised. I’m a mail carrier, so I know the Ravine.
What makes this outfit fit for the World Series?
Angelica: You have to wear your Converse. And I always wear my bow. Every time they play and I wear this, they win.
What’s your prediction for the World Series?
Angelica: I hope they win on Fernando Valenzuela’s birthday, which is Nov. 1. Go Dodgers!
Lizette Duenas poses in front of the Fernando Valenzuela memorial at Dodger Stadium before the first World Series game on Friday in Los Angeles.
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Lizette Duenas
Where are you from?
I’m from Sonora. Fernando and me are from the same area. I was born exactly where he was born. I traveled 14 hours just to be here.
Why do you have on a Dodgers cap and Yankees jersey?
I wore both because I want both teams to be friends. Fernando hugs the Yankees, but the Dodgers are in my heart. Fernando said that baseball is just a game and that he wants everyone to be friends.
What’s your prediction for the World Series?
Neither. Both.
Jennifer and Miguel Guerrero pose in front of the Fernando Valenzuela memorial at Dodger Stadium before the first World Series game on Friday in Los Angeles.
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Miguel and Jennifer Guerrero
Where are you from?
Jennifer: I’m from Riverside. During the Freeway Series, my parents are Angels, so I went for the Dodgers.
How long have you been a Dodger fan?
Jennifer: My whole life.
Miguel: Seven years.
Tell me about your husband’s chain.
Jennifer: We got it in Vegas. We got that and a Raiders one for me. He got that tattoo and he became a Dodgers fan because of me. I made him.
Are you wearing anything lucky for the Dodgers?
Jennifer: I’m wearing my old Kiké [Hernández] jersey. Every time I’ve been wearing it, they’ve been winning, so I wore this and not my Ohtani jersey.
Miguel: And I got a lucky Dodgers tattoo.
What’s your prediction for the World Series?
Miguel: Dodgers in 6.
Jennifer: I would say 6.
Andre and Margarita Daniels pose in front of the Fernando Valenzuela memorial at Dodger Stadium before the first World Series game on Friday.
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Andre and Margarita Daniels
Where are you from?
Andre: I’m from L.A. I was raised in Watts. We live in Compton.
Tell me about your outfits.
Andre: She’s amazing. She puts together her own outfits. With me, I just had mine together already. I love my boots. My chain represents the Dodgers. Big Fernando fans as well. I grew up a Dodgers fan, so we’re just here to beat New York and hopefully take the World Series.
Andre and Margarita Daniels show off their Dodger-themed boots in front of the Fernando Valenzuela memorial at Dodger Stadium before the first World Series game on Friday.
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Are you wearing anything that is lucky?
Andre: Nothing lucky except my wedding band. [laughs] We’re just out here representing, wearing our colors. We just love being here.
Margarita: Well. Yes. I can’t tell you what it is.
What’s your prediction for the Series?
Margarita: I think that we will win in 4.
Andre: I’m predicting we take it in 6.
Alfonso, Christian and Gael Torres pose in front of the Fernando Valenzuela memorial at Dodger Stadium before the first World Series game on Friday.
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Alfonso, Christian and Gael Torres
Where are you from?
Christian: We’re all from L.A. This is my dad and my brother.
Alfonso: I’ve been a Dodgers fan for 30 years. I was a young boy when Fernandomania happened in 1981.
Are you wearing anything that’s lucky?
Christian: The hat.
Have they won while you wore it?
Christian: No, not yet. Hopefully today they will.
What’s your prediction for the Series?
Christian: I think the Yankees are going to win.
Alfonso: Nooooo. Dodgers in 4.
Edilia Morales poses with her sons Raoul Aguilar, Edwin Aguilar and Allen Aguilar in front of a Dodgers mural on Friday.
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Edilia Morales, Raoul Aguilar, Edwin Aguilar, Allen Aguilar
What part of town do you live in?
Edilia: East L.A.
Are you all big Dodger fans?
All: Yes!
Are you wearing anything lucky?
Edilia: Yes, the shirts.
Raoul: This jacket is a lucky jacket.
What is your prediction for the World Series?
Edilia: Dodgers in 8.
Raoul: Dodgers in 6 or 5.
Colby Wagenbach, left, and at right are Nikki Blizzard and Colby Wagenbach on Friday in Los Angeles.
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Nikki Blizzard and Colby Wagenbach
Where do you live?
Colby: I’m living in Village Green.
Nikki: I’m living in Miracle Mile off La Brea, near the Grove.
Are you both big Dodger fans?
Nikki: I am now. I just moved to L.A. three months ago.
Colby: Lifelong Dodgers fan.
Where are you watching the game?
Colby: We originally were going to watch it at the Short Stop, but I think the crowd will be there after the game, so we’re going to go to the Douglas.
Are you wearing anything that is lucky for the Dodgers to win?
Nikki: I guess these pants are my lucky Dodger pants.
Colby: This shirt and the necklace — I had them both on the last time I went to a playoff game and they won. I wear the necklace every day, so I don’t know if it’s especially lucky.
What is your prediction for the Series?
Colby: Dodgers in 5.
Nikki: What he said.
Amy Farrar and Blair Paley show off their Dodgers style on Frida in Los Angeles.
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Amy Farrar and Blair Paley
What part of town are you in?
Amy: I live in Virgil Village.
Blair: I live in Echo Park just down the street.
How long have you been Dodger fans for?
Blair: Since I was born.
Amy: I guess since I moved here. Mostly, I really love the blue color.
Where did you find the hat?
Amy: The Instagram account is @methfountain. It’s this guy in New York that does plays on Birkin bags.
Blair Paley shows off her Dodgers hat on Friday in Los Angeles.
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Are you wearing anything that is lucky for the Dodgers so that they win?
Blair: Not specifically only for the Dodgers. These boots are lucky, but not specifically for the Dodgers.
Amy: I want to believe that this child’s jacket that I found at a thrift store is lucky.
Not for the child. But for the Dodgers.
Amy: (Reads the name written on the tag) Poor Justin.
What’s your prediction for the Series?
Blair: The Dodgers are going to go all the way.
Amy: I think the Yankees are going to win two games.
Ralph Gomez and Kristen Hagen pose in their hot dog and glove costumes on Friday in Los Angeles.
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Ralph Gomez and Kristen Hagen
What part of town do you live in?
Ralph: I’m from L.A., born and raised. I live in Long Beach right now, but I was in Hollywood. I was born and raised in East Los Angeles.
Kristen: I live in Little Tokyo.
Is that why you’re a big Ohtani fan?
Kristen: Pretty much.
Have you been a Dodger fan since you were born?
Ralph: Definitely. Rest in peace Fernando.
Is everybody in your family Dodger fans?
Ralph: Everybody is watching the game right now — my mom and dad.
I have to ask: You’re wearing a Dodger Dog?
Ralph: Yes, I am. Tomorrow I’m going to dress as Elton John.
How did you end up in this glove?
Kristen: I had it because when Ohtani was going to hit his 50th home run, we went to the game and I was going to be out there in the Pavilion trying to catch it, but he ended up hitting it at an away game.
Are you wearing anything that is lucky for the Dodgers to win?
Ralph: We have rally towels. The Short Stop is also the lucky place to watch the game.
Is this a lucky glove outfit?
Kristen: We’re going to find out tonight. Because this is the first time I’m wearing it for the entire game. If they lose, I’m never wearing it again. If they win, it’s staying in the rotation.
What’s your prediction for the Series?
Ralph: We’ll see today. The pitching is the thing that worries me, because the Yankees have a good lineup. If they pull today off, I’ll be feeling good. Dodgers in 7.
Christine Doh and Sean Yoo support opposing teams on Friday in Los Angeles.
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Christine Doh and Sean Yoo
What part of town do you live in?
Christine: I’m in Glendale.
How long have you been a Dodger fan?
Christine: My whole life. Since I was born.
Who’s your favorite player?
Christine: Ohtani, obviously. I love Mookie Betts.
Tell me about the hat?
Christine: It’s a Japanese izakaya restaurant. They’re huge Dodger fans, and they created these hats six months ago. I had to get it.
Christine Doh shows off her unofficial Dodgers hat on Friday in Los Angeles.
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And you’re wearing a Dodger blue shirt.
Christine: Just more repping. And it’s my personal uniform — blue is my favorite color. Navy is actually my favorite color, but that’s a Yankees color.
Why are you a Yankees fan?
Sean: I grew up in Jersey. It was the one team my dad instilled in me when I was growing up. But I’ve been in L.A. now for eight or nine years and I’ve adopted the Dodgers. I live in Echo Park, so it’s hard not to root for the Dodgers. I root for the Dodgers as much as I can except when they’re playing the Yankees.
Are you wearing anything lucky?
Sean: I’ve got a Derek Jeter jersey on. I have this classic Yankees 1943 World Series hat. Nothing super lucky, but stuff that makes me stick out as a Yankee fan.
What’s your prediction for the Series?
Christine: Dodgers are going to take it in 5.
Sean: Yankees in 6.
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Abriana Vicioso is the host of the Flower Hour, which takes place monthly.
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Each flower carries a personal history. For Abriana Vicioso, the calla lily was her parents’ wedding flower — a symbol of her mother’s beauty. “She had this big, beautiful white calla lily in her hair,” Vicioso says. “I love my parents. They’re the reason I’m here. I’ll never forget where I came from.”
The Flower Hour begins with Vicioso announcing, with a warm smile: “Today is about touching grass.” The florist-by-trade gestures behind her to hundreds of flowers contained in buckets — blue thistles, ivory anemones and calla lilies painted silver — all twisted and unfurling into the air. “Tonight is going to be so sweet and intimate,” Vicioso says, eyeing the beautiful chaos at her feet. A grin buds across her face.
Moments before the workshop, participants sit at candlelit tables exchanging horoscopes and comparing their favorite flowers. A mention of the illustrious bird-of-paradise flower elicits coos and awe from the women. Izamar Vazquez, who is from Jalisco, Mexico, reveals her fondness for roses, which make her feel connected to her Mexican roots.
Vicioso hosts her flower-themed wellness workshop near the iconic Original Los Angeles Flower Market in downtown L.A. In January, the first Flower Hour event sold out, prompting her to make it a monthly series. Vicioso describes the event as a “three-part journey” where participants are invited to drink herbal tea, smoke rose-petal-rolled cannabis joints and create a floral arrangement. “The guide is to connect with the medicine of flowers,” Vicioso says.
Rose petal joints, tea and flower arranging are all part of The Flower Hour event’s offerings.
The event is hosted at the Art Club, a membership-based co-working space. “The Flower Hour is really beautiful. Everyone gets to explore their creativity while meeting new people,” says Lindsay Williams, the co-owner of the Art Club.
The idea for Flower Hour came to Vicioso during a conversation with her mother. “We joke all the time that flowers were destined to make their way into my life,” she says. She works as a florist and models on the side, even appearing in the pages of Vogue. Vicioso grew up in a Caribbean household, where flowers and offerings were part of daily life. “In my culture and religion, a lot of my family practices — an Afro-Caribbean religion — we build altars.”
Like many cultures, flowers carry sentimental value in her religion. “I’m Caribbean, so a lot of my family practices a Yoruba religion, which comes from Africa. In the Caribbean, it’s well known as Santería.”
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After a difficult year and a breakup, Vicioso wanted to marry her love of flowers with community building. Because Vicioso uses cannabis medicinally, the workshop naturally includes a smoking component. “My family has smoked cannabis for a lot of reasons for a long time. It’s a really healing plant,” she explains.
In the workshop, even the cannabis gets the floral treatment. Vicioso presents her rose-petal-wrapped joints on a silver platter at each table. She rolled each by hand. “If you’ve never smoked a rose-petal-rolled joint, the difference with this is it’s going to have roses that have a slight tobacco effect,” she announces.
During the workshop, Vicioso stresses the importance of buying cannabis from local vendors. The cannabis provided was purchased from a Northern Californian vendor. The wellness workshop aims to reclaim the healing ritual of smoking cannabis. “This is a plant that has been commercialized,” Vicioso says. “There’s a lot of Black and Brown people who are in jail for this plant.”
The resulting workshop is what Vicioso describes as “an immersive wellness experience that is the intersection of wellness, creativity, community and an appreciation of flowers.” The workshop serves as a reminder to enjoy Earth’s innate beauty in the form of flowers — including cannabis. “It’s this gift that the universe gave us for free and that I have this deep connection with,” Vicioso says.
Conversation cards to generate discussion among participants (top, letf). The workshop serves as a “third space” for Angelenos to engage in tactile creativity and community building outside of traditional nightlife settings.
After enjoying lavender chamomile tea and smoking a joint, Vicioso introduces the flowers to the group before inviting them to pick their own. She emphasizes each flower’s personality traits, describing green dianthus as a “Dr. Seuss” plant. Then, there are calla lilies with their “main character moment.” It gets personal. “Start thinking of a flower in your life that you can discover,” she says. “If you’re feeling like you need inspiration, you can always remember that these flowers have stories.”
Vicioso infuses wisdom into her instruction on floral arrangements: There are no mistakes. Let the flowers tell you where they want to go, she urges. Intuition will be your guide — the wilder, the better.
“Hecho in Mexico” reads a sticker on a bunch of green stems. “Like me,” says Vazquez with a laugh. “They’re all doing their own thing. Like a family,” she says later, arranging stems.
The Flower Hour participants and Vicioso, center, chat as they build their own floral arrangements at the sold-out event.
Two participants — Vazquez and Rebeca Alvarado — are friends who run a floral design company together called Izza Rose. Like Vicioso, the friends have a connection to flowers through their Latin American culture. They met Vicioso in the floral industry and were overjoyed to discover her workshop.
“This is a great way to connect with other people,” says Vazquez.
Alvarado agrees, adding: “You’re getting to know people outside of going to bars. You can connect in different ways when there’s an activity.”
Vazquez uses flowers to stay connected to her Mexican heritage, adding that she prefers to support Mexican vendors. In recent months, the downtown L.A. flower market has struggled to recover from ongoing ICE raids. “Some are scared to come back,” says Vazquez.
Hand-rolled cannabis joints wrapped in rose petals are presented on a silver platter at The ArtClub (top, right). The Flower Hour aims to reclaim the healing rituals of cannabis and flowers.
Another participant, Barbara Rios, was attracted to the workshop for stress relief. “You can hang out with your friends, but it’s nice to do things with your hands,” she says. “I work a stressful job, and it’s nice to have that third space that we’re all craving.”
On this February night, the participants were predominantly women, save for one man. In the future, Vicioso hopes that more men learn to engage with flowers. “There’s a statistic about men receiving flowers for the first time at their funerals, and I think we have changed that,” she says.
To conclude the workshop, Vicioso encourages participants to build lasting friendships and incorporate flower arranging into their daily practice — even if it’s just with a small, inexpensive bouquet.
“Get some flowers together, go to the park, hang out with each other and hang out with me,” she says. Participants leave with flower arrangements in hand. In the darkness of the night air, it briefly looks as though the women carry silver calla lilies that are blooming from their palms.
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