It's over!!

[MarineCombatEngineer]

LA Dodgers headed back to the WS.
Does anyone here see the Dodgers losing the WS?

[Oeditpus Rex]

1. Sure

Baseball's a funny game. Y'just never know.

[MarineCombatEngineer]

2. You're correct,

but the way the Dodgers are playing, and with Ohtani finding his groove, it's going to be hard for any team to beat them, but, as the saying goes, "Any team can beat any other team on any given day".

[Oeditpus Rex]

5. Yeah, and there's a week until game 1 of the Series

That's enough time for guys to cool off. Worries me a little.

[MarineCombatEngineer]

6. Yep, there's always that,

but I just don't see the Dodgers throttling down, I think their game is only going to get better and better, especially with their superstars ramping it up.
We'll know soon enough if the Dodgers can live up to their reputation.

[johnnyfins]

3. Dodgers will win, and rightfully so.

Btw, this is coming from a Phillies fan who remembers the the losses to LA in the late 70s. Davey Lopes was OUT!!!!!!

[MyOwnPeace]

4. "Dodgers will win, and rightfully so."

Of course - you spend the most - you buy another trophy. Money well spent!

But I'm tired of buying tickets to watch money come in and beat my team - ALWAYS!
Yeah, I know: 'On any given day..........'
So, by the 'luck of the draft' (which means you REALLY have to 'suck' to get first pick!) - we'll send Paul Skenes out and probably win - or he'll lose again because we (yeah, I'm talking 'Pirates' here) can't/won't get/buy hitters to keep Skenes from losing games with scores like '1-0' or '2-1' while he's keeping an ERA under 2!

SALARY CAP - with a MINIMUM for each team. NFL - NHL have it. If MLB won't do it - you'll get no more ticket money from me.

Congrats to ALL of the winning teams this year, especially the World Series winner. I'll still sit here remembering Bill Mazeroski's home run winner over the Yankees in 1960 - Roberto Clemente honoring his family and Puerto Rico in the 1971 Series, and 'Pops' Stargell and his "Family" in 1979.

Without a 'level playing field' with salaries - small market teams may never have those kinds of memories again.

[Oeditpus Rex]

7. Baseball has been like that since 1869

How do you think the Cincinnati Red Stockings won 81 straight games over that year and the next? They lured the best players from other clubs by paying evey one of them, the first ball club ever to do that.

(They also realized close to zero rofits because owbers/backers had tyet to come up wth ways to make money other than charging 50 cents admission, and splitting even that with the club they were playing. Also, so many of their games were on the road -- few other clubs could afford to travel then -- and the costs of transportation, hotels and meals, plus salaries, really added up.)

Point being, baseball has been a business ever since then. It's always been about "the best team money can buy."

Thing is, though, you can spend all the money in the world on the best players, but you can't make them be a ball club. You can't buy spirit, moxie, fuck-you-guys for them; they have to develop that, and it's necessary to win. History has shown it time and again.