2024 World Series Gameday Thread

I'm not finding it difficult to root for the Dodgers. Their ownership is willing to spend top dollar for top rate players and have been the best team in baseball the past decade, playing well over .600 ball cumulatively - at the rate they're going they'll pass the Giants for the best all-time cumulative winning percentage in NL history as the Dodgers have narrowed the gap to just .003, with the Giants down to .535 and the Dodgers up to .532. I wish Red Sox ownership was doing what the Dodgers are doing. I mean, the Dodgers had a gazillion injuries to their staff, but instead of excuses as to why they're hovering around .500, the team still played .600 ball, the best in baseball, in what has been a down year for them in context of the past decade.

But as the Yankees themselves know you can average 92 wins per year, playing about .570 ball every year and even if you're better than that, with the many rounds of postseason it's harder to be the one standing at the end. Doesn't mean you don't try every year and that's what the Dodgers have been doing.

My feeling is that the Yankees will win in 6 games. I think the bullpen games effects will show up more in the Series for the Dodgers pitching. I don't know why the Dodgers just don't bite the bullet and start Knack for 3 to 4 or even 5 innings if he does well enough instead of pitching 7 guys to get through 9 innings. I also think if Vesia is out, that hurts the Dodgers' ability to get out Soto.

I think the Yankees' pitching is more intact at this point than the Dodgers. They have more rotation options and their pen hasn't been spent the way the Dodgers' pen has.

Also, with Stanton hot, that gives the Yankees lineup a 3 headed monster that is extremely hard to get through while Freeman's injury makes it tougher for the Dodgers to match that.

I hope I'm wrong and the Dodgers knock off the Yankees, but at this point I'm thinking it's the Yankees who will win. Let the Dodgers prove me wrong - PLEASE!!

Some people are talking about how many great players there are in this World Series. Yes, but not the greatest ever. The 1975 series had numerous HOF players and near HOF players on both sides, and about a half dozen MVPs (Lynn ,Yaz, Rice, Morgan, Bench), several ROY winners, and about a dozen GG winners, along with such record holders as "most HR b y a SS" (at the time), the only Triple crown winner from 1957-2011, and the only man ti have 400 total bases b between 1960 and 1997.

I hope the week off ahead of the World Series is enough to get Freddie Freeman's sprained ankle right with whatever multi-million dollar cryogenic oxygenated solar-powered laser-beam machine the Dodgers are using to zap his leg

I am rooting for a Magic Johnson team for the first time in my life and I can't tell you how dirty that feels. I'm trying to look at it as I'm rooting for Dave Roberts and the team that brought Jackie Robinson to the ML.

I have to think the extended rest is going to benefit the Dodgers more than the MFYs because it re-sets their BP, which is where they need to get big performances to win the series.

FG has the Dodgers with a 53-percent chance, so basically a coin flip. That sounds about right to me. I'm hopeful and cautiously optimistic.

I just can't root for the MFY led by dummy Aaron Boone. Let's Go Dodgers!

I don`t care how true this is, please stop

Go Dodgers, although I don't share the same hate for them.

My Most Hated Teams:

ANY Yankee Team
1986 Mets
Late 80's A's with the BASH Brothers
Early 00's Devil Rays (they were all just punks)
Any team Manny Machado is on. 

Dodgers lefty reliever Alex Vesia was saying earlier this week he feels "90%" and should return for the World Series. 66 innings and a 1.76 ERA during the regular season. After you get past the Soto/Judge/Stanton gauntlet the second half of the Yankees lineup is really lefty heavy (Jazz, Rizzo, Wells, Verdugo) so they're gonna need him.

The Dodgers didnt steal Mookie. The Red Sox decided to trade him away when he didnt accept a hometown discount

I really dont get the Dodgers hate. They have combined top ratee farm systems with huge spending and have won more than 60% of their games over the last dozen seasons. What they havent done a lot of is win championships, but to win championships team are supposed to give themselves as many chances as possible and that's what theyve done. Isnt that what we'd want for the Red Sox instead of worrying if John Henry will make enough profit if he dares to go over the luxury tax line?

They did win in 2020 even if people discount it. They were 43-17 over 60 games so I dont think they need to apologize for anything. The got screwed over in the 2017 Series. They were outclassed by our Sox in the 18 Series. They have another shot this year and dont appear to be going away anytime soon.

I dont see the arrogance of the 86 Mets and they dont wear pinstripes or have fans that shout Boston sucks or chant 19-18. They come from humble beginnings as Brooklyn struggled for a long time and they became the first franchise to fully integrate. They even played the role of the Red Sox to the Giants who were like the Yankees to them with the Giants doing to them in 1951 and later on again in 1962 what the Yankees did to the Sox in 1978 and 2003.

So I guess I simply dont share the hatred for the Dodgers...unless they play the Sox in the Series, which theyve done twice and have been kind enough to lose both times in 5 games. Go Dodgers!!!

This is why I have little to no appetite in trading any of the big 4, perhaps hardly any of the top 10 either. Look at how the Dodgers have done it, how many top prospects have they really dealt in their run? They have figured the system out so to speak. Keep your top prospects and refill from within to help subsidize those big contracts. 

Those two shots by Ohtani and Betts are a hint of what the game may look like. Heavy fog this evening. Should mean a lot of long outs.