Sunday, November 02, 2025

"The Dodgers are bad for baseball" crowd.

The tactic is so tedious and stupid.

Create a non-existent position and then tear it down.

"Just as everyone feared or sneered, the Los Angeles Dodgers are champions. Again. In what some forecasted as a harbinger of doom, the sinister strategy of employing the best baseball player on the planet along with a generous number of his nearly equal peers proved effective. It’s not fair, some people will say in the coming months about the fact that the team broadly believed to be the best ultimately won it all."

In the world of hyperlinks, "everyone" and "some people" should have examples of the widespread existence of such sentiments.

"To be a little less sanctimonious and a lot less poetic: People take issue with Dodgers because of their payroll. Including the penalties for blowing past the various tax thresholds, the Dodgers paid more than half a billion dollars for their rings this season. Small market owners would tell you the Dodgers should be cheaper. If the Dodgers didn’t try so hard at roster construction it would be easier to keep up. Is that how competition works?"

"People."

"People" have lots of opinions, but there just isn't a huge anti-Dodgers fever sweeping the country. 

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