Fans followed two teams that went the distance in the 2023 baseball season: the Los Angeles Dodgers and the Baltimore Orioles. Both teams won over 100 games in a season that lasted over 6 months and a 162-game schedule.
The Orioles added something to their storyline this year. Unlike the Dodgers, the Orioles have not been used to winning over the long haul.
Now we are in the short haul part of the baseball year. After winning “the best of 5” and then “the best of 7,” the two remaining teams are proven losers over the long term but proven winners over the short term because they are still around. For their part, the Orioles and the Dodgers have gone home.
So is anyone going to stay around and watch this World Series? It’s a short series, you know. Anything can happen, and losers can even be champs in a short series, you know. But I wonder: Are the same people that followed baseball over the long haul going to stick with this shortened version where the teams and the records are, well, smaller?
SEE ‘YA NEXT YEAR! Maybe.
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