Posted on 10/12/2023 6:54:12 AM PDT by DFG
PHOENIX, AZ — After being swept by the Diamondbacks in humiliating fashion, the Los Angeles Dodgers were left wondering if perhaps they ought to have spent more time practicing baseball and less time honoring Satanic nuns dressed in drag.
During the offseason, Dodgers management will be looking at what went wrong in yet another disappointing postseason, and everything will be under the microscope: whether they should have acquired better starting pitching at the trade deadline, why the bats went cold in October, and whether perhaps promoting heretical Satan worship in front of families at Dodger Stadium this year caused the wrath of God to fall upon them.
"Maybe we should have spent more time training our starting pitchers not to give up 4 bombs in an inning and less time honoring Satan," said Manager Dave Roberts in a somber postgame press conference at Chase Field. He shook his head and shrugged. "But that's the benefit of hindsight, I guess."
"What was your approach to this series, and what went wrong?" asked one reporter.
"Yeah, uh, right - our main strategy for the year was to, you know, worship Satan and honor perverted drag queen nuns," Roberts said. "It didn't end up paying off, you know, but we stand by our strategy. As the old saying goes, sometimes you win, sometimes you lose, and sometimes you get swept by the 84-win Diamondbacks after you honor blasphemous drag queens who spit upon the Catholic faith."
"That's just baseball."
Good idea, it would open up for some exciting betting, on who the one team would be :)
Well if it were the A's, nobody would even notice.
It’s actually the Dodgers that get an asterisk ✳️ for the 60 game 2020 season.
Them too.
Another factual story from Babylon Bee. They are slipping.
Newsom can play the Devil....oh, wait...
Dodgers Blue Lite
Nope. The one team would always be my Red Wings.
If you want to guess who will be the most awful team in the NHL the first one you should think of is my guys from Detroit.
Detroit hasn’t been to a post-season in any of the four major sports since 2015.
But I’m pretty confident that will end this year with the Lions.
Let’s go Rangers.
Let’s go Rangers.
Kershaw always flops in the post-season.
All baseball teams are barely above 500 if you really look it. Part of the problem with the 162 game season, that kind of grind guarantees even the best teams will have multiple slumps. There’s the adage even the best teams lose 30% of the time. I always find it funny people talk about 100 win teams like it’s a major achievement. If you drop off a zero you get the equivalent of a 10-6 NFL record. Nobody considers 10-6 great, even if it will frequently get into the playoffs. A 100 win team is only 20 games, 1/8 of the season, over 500.
Good point, and there’s a lot more parity in baseball, you really can’t spend your way to a title anymore, players are too expensive now.
I don’t even think it’s parity so much as the vicious grind. You get a similar thing in the NBA and NHL (well, outside the occasional NBA super team). The more games there are in a season the more records gravitate towards the middle. It’s just like the old coin toss experiment, the bigger your sample size the less your results deviate from 50-50. We never really like to admit how much luck plays into sports results. But in the end they’re really all about the bounces and the injuries.
It also comes down the managers, Bochy is one of the best in the business.
God will not be mocked.
I'm not going to get my hopes up.
Quite a few years ago the Lions had a couple of seasons where they went undefeated for something like half a season then they collapsed and lost nearly every game through the end.
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