The Dodgers are still good the clock is better and more MLB opening weekend takeways

LOS ANGELES — This town understands how to sell a story, and so it was that Dodgers manager Dave Roberts unspooled the yarn about his team’s intentions for 2023. The story goes like this. After years of dominating the National League West, fielding a roster stacked with All-Stars, the Dodgers have opted for a much younger, far less decorated group this season. The youth and inexperience will not alter the expectations of what is a given (winning the division) and what is the grail (another World Series). And the best part, in the verbiage put forth by team officials, is…