It wont be easy for MLB to get dream World Series scenario

KANSAS CITY, Mo.– Short of Patrick Mahomes throwing a first pitch to Travis Kelce while Taylor Swift cheers from a box in a Royals jacket, what MLB wants most is a Dodgers-Yankees World Series.Sure, the league will say it loves all 30 of its children equally. But here in reality land, the league is pleased when the sport re-energizes fan bases in places like Detroit and Kansas City with surprise appearances in the playoffs and some early-round surprises.However, MLB is in the business of business.

That is why you are seeing the name of a German apparel company on every postseason batting helmet as ridiculous as that might look.And it is why – even if they don’t say it in their outdoor voices – Dodgers-Yankees is the dream for Rob Manfred and Co.

considering the concern about national relevance and what the on-air financial future of the product looks like.Thus, MLB sure could use a blockbuster.And in this sport, at this time, there is no way quite to merge the nostalgia that MLB relies upon with the potential cha-ching of the present than Dodgers-Yankees.The league can sell lots of black-and-white video of Yogi Berra jumping into Don Larsen’s arms and Brooklyn’s shining moment in 1955.

In theory, the sport can get some of the same New York-New York grainy imagery from a Subway Series.But what it can’t get is the whole country to care quite as much as it would if it could offer not only the historic coastal superpowers, but also a clash of the two most outsized stars in the sport – Shohei Ohtani vs Aaron Judge.Because let’s face it, whether it is Hollywood or Broadway, you’d also love a project that has co-stars as huge as Mookie Betts, Freddie Freeman, Gerrit Cole and Juan Soto.But if this is heading toward MLB’s ideal, it is wheezing there more than breezing there.These have been dramatic, traumatic, thrilling playoffs to date fueled by the lower seed winning three of four wild-card round series and three of four lower seeds taking at lea...