Click here: to donate by Credit Card
Or here: to donate by PayPal
Or by mail to: Free Republic, LLC - PO Box 9771 - Fresno, CA 93794
Thank you very much and God bless you.
Posted on 10/16/2026 2:55:29 AM PDT by Kid Shelleen
The Dodgers spent the last several years building what was supposed to be a roster so loaded it couldn't possibly lose in the postseason. But on Thursday night, a campaign that began as a chase for baseball's first three-peat in a quarter-century ended as one of its most spectacular failures.
----SNIP---
Los Angeles’s spending also broke records. When factoring in the team’s CBT payroll and luxury tax payments, the roster cost more than $616 million this season, nearly $150 million more than the second-place Mets ($468.9 million). The disparity was so great, the idea of a salary cap in baseball gained renewed momentum. Given all the advantages the Dodgers had, anything short of a World Series would have been a disappointment. What happened in the NLCS went far beyond that.
(Excerpt) Read more at si.com ...
|
|
Click here: to donate by Credit Card Or here: to donate by PayPal Or by mail to: Free Republic, LLC - PO Box 9771 - Fresno, CA 93794 Thank you very much and God bless you. |
The three-peat has been deferred
The Brewers are like the monster in a horror movie...you think he’s been killed, but he comes back again and again and again. They never give up.
Do they still play at Comiskey Field?
I’m pretty sure this is why the Electoral College was invented.
Several factors worked against the Dodgers' three-peat:
Roster Age: Buying up high-priced talent means acquiring established veterans (Mookie, Freddie, Teo, Tucker, Ohtani. Kiké is 35, Muncy 36, Rojas 37. Aging veterans slow down, injure more easily, and gradually diminish in performance. (The Dodgers have youngsters Pages, Rushing and DePaula and desperately need more young blood--but this is the franchise with the most Rookie of the Year Awards, so....)
Fatigue: This was their third league-championship series in-a-row, reducing their recovery period between seasons.
Pressure: Expectations were sky-high, a monkey on their back all year long.
It all just became too much.
Good analogy.
Oh hell i forgot that!!!!
You are spot-on correct!
Its just an expression.
Yes, they are excellent.
The question then becomes out of how many? If one counts all existing MLB franchises it’s two out of 30. However only the Astros in 2013 and Brewers in 1998 have ever switched leagues so only they could ever achieve this feat in the first place but I guess it’s still notable trivia.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.