![]() ![]() For the second year in a row, they’ll head into the offseason with some big question marks about their team. Still, it wasn’t all on the Dodgers here: for the second year in a row, they ran into a really powerful team they just couldn’t slow down. This particular World Series loss really stung for all those reasons above - it’s tough when a series loss calls into question foundational components of an organization. It’s hard to complain about a team being in the World Series every year, even if they don’t win when they get there. This was an uneasy series to watch in some ways: Clayton Kershaw really is the best pitcher on the planet, but all the things people say about him in the postseason have really, finally stuck Kenley Jansen couldn’t stop giving up runs Manny Machado revealed himself to be a butt Yasiel Puig played with his whole butt it took an historic 18-inning game for the Dodgers just to get a win against the mighty Red Sox, and yet, the Dodgers were in the World Series again, because that’s how they’re built. Dodgers fans might never feel like their team is going to win one, but the difference here is that Dodgers fans will get to see their team in the World Series every year for the rest of their natural lives.Īnd that’s what we’re really talking about here. The Giants won three when we were thrilled with one. We’ve been incredibly lucky with our luck. I agree, but I also can’t help but get a mild thrill out of the idea of the Dodgers getting to the World Series every year and not winning it. It’s impossible for a franchise this determined and this resourceful to not win the World Series forever. Grant had become weary of writing these for fear of gloating and because he knows a reckoning is coming. For one more night, for one more Halloween, their ghoulish energy was put to rest. There have been eight Halloween / Michael Myers movies released since the Dodgers last won the World Series (including one this year!), and just like that franchise, the Dodgers are an unkillable force. I’m talking about HALLOWEEN movies featuring the masked killer Michael Myers. It’s just one of those things we can’t avoid, like Halloween movies. It’s a win-win for not-Dodgers fans.īut if you’re reading this and you’re mad at me for saying the Dodgers will be the National League representative in the World Series for the rest of our natural lives, just understand that I don’t make the rules - the Dodgers will be in the World Series every year for the rest of our natural lives. The Dodgers are on the bleeding edge of baseball analytics and they still haven’t been able to win the World Series for all their smarts and resources. The “analytic wave” that these codgers are railing against has already flooded and consumed the industry - they’re mad about being unable to control the world changing around them. The rise the Dodgers unintentionally get out of some people is as entertaining as the Dodgers failing to win the World Series, which they failed to do for the 30th consecutive year. The President of a war-torn country tweeted admonitions at them. For another, their continued presence really irks the baseball traditionalists and midlife crisis-experiencing men paid to cover the World Series. For one thing, we have a chance to watch the Dodgers fail to win the World Series in the World Series every year. The Dodgers being the permanent representative in the World Series every year for the rest of our lives isn’t the worst thing in the world, though. There is no point of the season where they will be too far back and no star player at the deadline they won’t be able to acquire. They have too much talent, too much money, and they are an international syndicate. Or, at least, they will continue to be for the rest of our lives - there is no stopping the Dodgers from reaching the World Series. The Dodgers have always been in the World Series. The question now is not “how does this keep happening?” but “why does this keep happening?” and the years-in-the-making-answer is now clear: LOS ANGELES - With a cool night chasing a smog-filled afternoon, 50,000+ baseball fans crowded into Dodger Stadium to watch the Los Angeles Dodgers fail to win the World Series for the 30th consecutive year. ![]()
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