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An Open Letter to Justin Turner and M.L.B.

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Justin Turner, it’s time for you to apologize.

I lived in Los Angeles long enough to know how much you mean to the Dodgers — and to L.A. baseball fans who have watched you, a native Southern Californian, become the late-blooming linchpin of a team that just won its first World Series in 32 years.

You’re one of baseball’s brightest stars, but you followed up the greatest win of your life with a dim and dangerous move.

That postgame celebration after the title-clinching Game 6 didn’t just put everyone around you at risk.