On account of they won the World Series.

"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. 

Maybe they're watching Mystery Science Theater 3000 reruns.

Hey, man, you're the clown who was talking about a Subway Series in June. "The '86 Mets 2.0" and all that nonsense.

Fundamentally, the reason your predictions are usually wrong is because you seldom know what you're talking about. 

Who will be the hero?

Funny, this is my pick as well:

Isiah Kiner-Falefa, INF

With Bo Bichette playing at less than 100 percent due to a compromised left knee, there’s a decent chance we see Kiner-Falefa in Game 7. And while he hasn’t hit well in this World Series so far, IKF did hit .333 with a pair of doubles in the seven-game ALCS victory over the Mariners. And he has some significant playoff experience, having played in 20 playoff games between the Yankees in 2022 and the Blue Jays this postseason.

Sans the power, Kiner-Falefa has demonstrated some of what has made the 2025 Blue Jays so successful at the plate -- he makes frequent contact (15.1% whiff rate during the regular season) and doesn’t strike out often (16.8% K rate in the regular season). If there’s one thing Toronto has shown during these playoffs, it’s that putting the ball in play and putting pressure on the opposing defense can pay dividends.

If it comes down to a big moment late in the game when putting the ball in play could be huge, Kiner-Falefa could find himself in the spotlight with a chance to etch his name into Blue Jays lore.

-- Manny Randhawa

 

"Shut up and ground out to the second baseman with runners in scoring position."

The Star-Ledger doesn't need to pay attention to Mark Teixeira. It isn't sports coverage.