World Series

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Originally Posted by hurley842002

We're a Rockies/Dodgers household, so it was a bummer for us, but great baseball either way, and no doubt the best two teams were in the series.

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LOL

Same here. Grew up watching Dodgers game.
My wife is sick and tired of me talking about Hershiser and Gibson during this year's WS.

Yeah my wife is from LA (area) and me having aunt, uncle and cousins out there years ago, I was going to Angel's and Dodgers games before the Rockies came to town.

My wife enjoys baseball as I do. I thought it was a great series. A real contest with plenty of tension and action. Excellent plays and lots of HRs. Who could ask for more. Well I guess more beer and hot dogs.

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Originally Posted by Jeffrey Lebowski

There are some drought teams winning, but they are big or bigger markets and they are spending. Boston, Chicago, SF - all spend big.

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Dodgers actually had the highest payroll of any team this year, there are actually a few teams in the top 10 that were surprising to me. They spent over $100,000,000 more than Houston. I was glad to see Houston win at that.

http://www.stevetheump.com/Payrolls.htm (this was the only site I found that didn't have annoying auto playing video, the numbers all matched up though)

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Originally Posted by izzy

Dodgers actually had the highest payroll of any team this year, there are actually a few teams in the top 10 that were surprising to me. They spent over $100,000,000 more than Houston. I was glad to see Houston win at that.

http://www.stevetheump.com/Payrolls.htm (this was the only site I found that didn't have annoying auto playing video, the numbers all matched up though)

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Forbes usually does a pretty good job of it and I’m well aware of the Dodgers TV deal and resulting payroll, but my point was that Milwaukee doesn’t have a prayer.

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Originally Posted by kwando

What about the SI cover back in 2014 that was printed that said the Houston Astros will be the 2017 World Series Champs.

http://ftw.usatoday.com/2014/06/spor...ies-champs-mlb

https://www.si.com/mlb/2017/11/02/pr...7-world-series

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What a prediction!

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Originally Posted by Jeffrey Lebowski

Forbes usually does a pretty good job of it and I’m well aware of the Dodgers TV deal and resulting payroll, but my point was that Milwaukee doesn’t have a prayer.

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Yeah, that makes sense. Your post made me want to look it up, found a forbes article but they were all poo-poo about my ad blocker. The owners for the teams with less of a payroll make tons of money either way so I feel like they don't really care if their team wins it all. It sucks for the fans though.