2024 WS: Yankees vs. Dodgers

Archer1979

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I don't fully disagree, but who do the 2024 Dodgers really have in this regard...?

Mike Trout also is a vanilla personality. It's not something you can really control.
Team leader and best player are two different things though. One can argue that Kevin Millar was the leader of that clubhouse in 2004. Its one of the problems with giving someone the captaincy to your best player. They're not always the rah-rah types and you need someone like that to keep the energy up in the dugout. The only energy that NY had after giving up the five run lead was the dead cat bounce of an inning where Soto hit a sac fly to go up 6 -5. After that... not much.
 

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Meanwhile in Brian Cashman's office, a phone rings. He answers.

Cashman: "Hello?"
Breslow: "Brian? It's Craig. How's it going?"
Cashman: "You know we just lost the World Series right?"
Breslow: "I did this to you. I did this. Don't you ever forget that."

Cashman hears the phone click, and then a dial tone. He reflects on the Verdugo-Fitts trade. A sinking feeling in the pit of his stomach swells, and grows into a flash of rage. He throws a rocks glass at the door, shattering it into a million pieces.

Cashman: "SON OF A BITCH!"
I love good writing. Bravo.
 

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Well, I'll give @Dewey Eyed Dreamer some credit. Left the thread and didn't come back (from what I can see), like they said they would

Too bad the season is over and we can't get more insightful posts though
I loved that he prefaced that run with "I don't watch a lot of NL baseball" and then expounded at length about what the Dodgers could and couldn't do. Awesome work in game threads on Sosh all around as usual lol games are longer than three innings for a reason!

That was a fun game. My god that fifth inning was such a clusterfuck how did that happen? Kind of gives lie to the momentum thing in baseball. Its there until it just isn't.

This was one of the more flawed Dodgers teams of the last few years going into the playoffs--the injuries to their pitching staff were insane, and the Treinen/ Hudson/ Phillips trio just kept taking turns struggling. All season too, someone young would come up and give a nice run of starts and then boom he was hurt. The fact they navigated that, and the three guys they did have carrying some concerns, was pretty impressive. Also, man, what a trade deadline. Edman/ Flaherty/ Kopech saved their season 100%.

Kinda nice for Roberts he can put a bunch of the absurd talk of his job being in danger to bed, there was never any chance but he had a nice postseason and sealed the deal.

Three rings for Mookie I love it. I get the superteam stuff but I live here and its an easy baseball fix and they really are pretty up and down a lovable team.
 

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This may be recency bias, but you know, this may be my favorite non-Boston title, surpassing Peyton losing to Brees
I only care about baseball, so this has to be mine. The 01 and 03 wins by the D-Backs and Marlins have to be up there, but not particularly close to this one. Both were pre-Sox rings, and the Yankees weren’t exactly in any sort of drought when those happened. It’s been 15 years now.

And, hopefully counting.
 

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Somewhere in New Jersey, Mike Trout is sitting there sad. His only chance was Shohei. And he has gone off and won one without him.
 

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I only care about baseball, so this has to be mine. The 01 and 03 wins by the D-Backs and Marlins have to be up there, but not particularly close to this one. Both were pre-Sox rings, and the Yankees weren’t exactly in any sort of drought when those happened. It’s been 15 years now.

And, hopefully counting.
I dunno, that 01 series was ultimate levels of nut punch. Also kind of kick started the 24 years of only 1 title era, too.

But this was excellent, as well.
 

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Can't kill a man if he doesn't have hope and they had so much hope. Cole the mound. 5 run lead. Then a bunch of little league errors. Just tremendous stuff.
 

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Shit, I missed it. Went to bed with LA down 5-0 and thinking there would be a Game 6. I’m so happy now I’m crying. How will I ever fall back to sleep?