This Yankees-Dodgers World Series narrative is already so, so tired
When the Dodgers and Yankees played in the World Series routinely, that is known as the heyday of MLB.When they are playing like clockwork every 43 years, that is known as what’s wrong with the sport.I understand that what sells in the media landscape now is running a tired take into the ground.I know what makes the current world go round is not letting go of even the most disproven grievance.
Because let’s stop acting like Yankees-Dodgers in the World Series corroborates what’s wrong with the game and why a salary cap is needed.You can deposit that on Trite Street.If you want to argue for a salary cap because there needs to be a fairer way to pay good players and young ones — or just because for some reason you want owners to know their fixed costs — that is far better than some illusion of competitive balance.
Because what creates competitive balance is competence and its wicked stepbrother incompetence.Here are some realities that will be ignored in favor of gut-level stupidity:• The Yankees have not been to a World Series since 2009, and their win that year is their only title since 2000.• The Dodgers have won one World Series since 1988 — in 2020, the 60-game pandemic season.Want more from dominant big markets?The Mets have not won a World Series since 1986.The Phillies have won two World Series since their 1883 debut.The two Chicago teams have combined for two titles since 1917.
The Cubs won it all in 2016, hadn’t been to a World Series before that since 1945 and last won before 2016 in 1908.The White Sox won their first World Series since 1917 in 2005 and have made the playoffs three times since without winning a round.
The Angels added Los Angeles to their name in 2005, but still have just one World Series appearance/win (in 2002) since their 1962 inception and currently hold the longest playoff drought in the majors (since 2014).Really, give the White Sox and Angels all the payroll in the world and, really, they will find their way t...