RedState Sports activities Report: The Dodgers. Once more.

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It’s clearly not watching their weight.

Anyway, the World Sequence has mercifully concluded, with the Los Angeles Dodgers as soon as once more triumphing, this time over the Toronto Blue Jays. I’ve been seeing some breathless fanboi write-ups declaring this the Best World Sequence EVAH! I’m not shopping for it. Toronto went out of its means in Video games Six and Seven to play essentially unsound baseball in vital moments, and Los Angeles was greater than delighted to just accept its largesse. I’m not placing the Dodgers down. They're the perfect crew in baseball, bullpen however, they usually did what they wanted to do to earn the title. I'm placing the Blue Jays down for persistently failing to return by when victory was inside their grasp. They repeatedly didn't deliver runners residence in scoring place, nor did they advance runners to place them in a greater scoring place. Toronto has nobody guilty however itself for strolling away empty-handed.

Now, an fascinating low season begins. Whereas there aren't any Shohei Ohtani-level megastars on the free agent market, there's loads of obtainable expertise that may make any crew keen to flash the money immediately higher: Cody Bellinger, Kyle Schwarber, Kyle Tucker, Ranger Suarez, and extra. Ought to the Dodgers do what they usually do, particularly pay no matter they really feel like for whoever they really feel like, it should solely add to the screeching refrain that baseball’s present wage construction is untenable because of the radical distinction in revenue between large and small market groups. As I discussed on October 30, 2025, it’s not that Los Angeles is breaking the principles. It's that the current guidelines permit for such inequity, and likewise permit groups which can be evidencing no nice curiosity in successful to proceed puttering together with minuscule payrolls and much more minuscule successful percentages, but nonetheless turning a good-looking revenue for his or her house owners.

The gamers couldn’t care much less about their very own so long as the delusion holds that eventually, each crew will begin spending on a Dodgers or Mets-like degree. They won't. Along with refusing to debate a wage cap, the gamers are equally adamant about not having a minimal crew wage base established. By no means thoughts how the opposite three main sports activities have amply demonstrated {that a} wage ceiling, mixed with a ground, doesn't preclude high gamers from getting high greenback whereas benefitting all gamers all through their respective leagues. Or, how such constructions permit all groups to compete no matter location. That is likely to the chagrin of some; for instance, one can think about the NBA was lower than enthralled this previous spring when the championship got here all the way down to the Oklahoma Metropolis Thunder and the Indiana Pacers as in comparison with, say, the Los Angeles Lakers and the New York Knicks. However of such is actual life. The massive metropolis and the intense lights don't mechanically get a free move to getting in any respect its concrete and neon coronary heart needs, as anybody who has ever watched a Hallmark Channel Christmas film can attest.

So, baseball appears headed towards a vicious lockout following the 2026 season, stated season most certainly ending with the Dodgers turning into the primary crew because the 1998-2000 New York Yankees to win three championships in a row. Just like the Dodgers of as we speak, the Yankees of that point had been the perfect crew cash may purchase. In contrast to what is going to most certainly befall the Dodgers of as we speak, the Yankees had the chance to go for 4 in a row however misplaced the 2001 World Sequence to the Arizona Diamondbacks. Los Angeles won't be within the 2027 World Sequence as there won't be one.

The Schumer Shutdown is right here. Moderately than put the American folks first, Chuck Schumer and the novel Democrats pressured a authorities shutdown for healthcare for illegals. They personal this.