Posted on 11/02/2025 6:35:36 AM PST by MarlonRando
'It's going to sound like sour grapes and I don't really give a s*** but I think the better team did not win this series... you just feel like the baseball Gods got it wrong this time.'
He added: 'I think the Blue Jays are the better team and I feel like they played baseball a certain way that was infectious, that grabbed the attention of the fans. 'And it's disheartening to see that the better team did not win. That's not to take anything away from the Dodgers but the Blue Jays did so many things right.'
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yeah I’m sure there are scripts just like everything else.
Baseball is a game that is ninety-nine percent half mental.
You’re right again, Yogi!
you aren’t the better team when your closer has a history of giving up dingers (and had a 4.37 ERA) and two of your best players would have been on the IL if it had been during the regular season.. A lights out fireballer closer would have won that game and the series, a closer like Aroldis Chapman
that said if the Blue Jays had been able to come even close to parity on payroll they would have beaten the Dodgers handedly imho.. $100 million difference got the Dodgers just over the line barely but barely counts.. damn exciting that’s for sure!
No joy in Mudville.
I honestly couldn’t care less who won, but I have to wonder if that weird “ball stuck at the bottom of the fence” incident may have changed the outcome of the series.
Nosebleed seats are $250+, I’ll pass.
yep! mine were $1000 for 4 tix. At least I’m not sitting in front of a pole/girder. I told my brother, it’s like when we were kids, and we didn’t have the money to get good seats, but we had a great time
The Blue Jays had two chances to drop a little squeeze bunt and bring in the winning run in the ninth and eleventh innings, but no, swing for the fences.
MLB baseball players no longer know how to play baseball. Even the .200 hitters come up to the plate trying to hit homers. Gone are talents and game strategies like squeeze bunts, hitting behind the runner, swinging at balls in the strike zone rather than running up pitch counts, choking up with two strikes to go for the single, etc., etc.
You are right about the closer. Jays should make big offer for Mets Edwin Diaz. He’s a FA starting today. Though if Cohen wants to keep him no way Jays can match his money.
The best World Series in decades, if not ever. Sour grapes spoils it. Both teams are to be congratulated on a well-played and exciting series.
Other than who won, I saw the most amazing throws and catches from both teams. Some incredible plays.
They’ll be arguing over the ‘dead ball’ for years and whether or not Smith’s spike was on home plate.
I got to see Don Larson’s Perfect Game.
Reserved seats, lower deck behind third base.
$7.35.
Seven dollars and thirty-five cents!
Those same seats for last night’s game now go for $300, more if scalped.
A regular season game for a dwindling number of reserved seats will cost a family of four $200-300 when you throw in the $10 hot dogs and $12 beers and sodas.
They have taken baseball away from the common folk.
It’s a millionaire’s game with millionaire owners, millionaire players, millionaire box seat and season ticket holders. They have priced true baseball lovers out of the game.
Like basketball and football, it has become a game of freaks, where even the infielders are now 6’ 4” and 250 lbs. There is no strategy, just stupid analytics where pitchers with no-hitters in the seventh inning are pulled out for pitch counts, where no one knows how to bunt.
Almost sounds like he had a lot of money riding on the Blue Jays, doesn’t it?
I blame the scalpers. They use computers and apps to buy up huge chunks of tickets and charge an arm and a leg. They honestly take the fun out of live entertainment
That translates to $86.81 today.
I picked a bad time to be poor again. Are the tickets a small fortune?
Didn’t a team get chewed out for finishing the series in 4 or 5 games a few years ago? (Not a fan but seem to remember reading the article)
How do you “fix” baseball?
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