11 hours ago, caulfield12 said:

The difference is at least those Dodgers' teams came together to win on the field.

Mister we can use a man like Al Campanis again....

Checks notes, among highest payrolls for Campanis and Garvey's 19 years as GM/player, one World Series. Better than the current Dodgers' 34 real season drought, but not by much. 

OP is channeling Josh Donaldson. Not good.

4 hours ago, South Side Hit Men said:

Mister we can use a man like Al Campanis again....

Checks notes, among highest payrolls for Campanis and Garvey's 19 years as GM/player, one World Series. Better than the current Dodgers' 34 real season drought, but not by much. 

Well yeah just like the 2013-2023 run by LA with the Covid asterisk title ...lots of winning Dodgers baseball but two titles back in the 70s and 80s.

Edited March 3, 20242 yr by caulfield12

2 hours ago, caulfield12 said:

Well yeah just like the 2013-2023 run by LA with the Covid asterisk title ...lots of winning Dodgers baseball but two titles back in the 70s and 80s.

As a Sox fan I'd take what the Dodgers have done the last decade in a heartbeat and twice on Sunday.

Can't win the World Series if you never get there as the Sox have found out.

3 hours ago, caulfield12 said:

Well yeah just like the 2013-2023 run by LA with the Covid asterisk title ...lots of winning Dodgers baseball but two titles back in the 70s and 80s.

Yes, they won pennants with the near annual top payrolls, but the fact remains Al Campanis was hired in 1968 and won one single World Series, also in a bastardized short season (110 games) and gimmick expanded playoff format.

They wouldn't have even reached the playoffs in a legitimate season. The Dodgers were four behind the Reds in 1981, but with the bogus two half double the playoff team format, Los Angeles (4 back) and Houston (6 back) were the two N. L. West representatives.

1981 National League West Final Standings

1. Cincinnati 66-42 - Out of bogus playoff format
2. Los Angeles 63-47 4 GB - In via bogus playoff format
3. Houston 61-49 6 GB - In via bogus playoff format

Al Campanis was fired shortly after his infamous appearance on Nightline in 1987. The Dodgers won their most recent World Series played in Los Angeles a year later under General Manager Fred Claire.

I was fortunate to attend every home playoff game in 1983 (stayed overnight in line at the stadium to purchase $6 SRO tickets), and in 2005 via a WSI post when the Sox sold 2006 season tickets for the right to purchase 2005 World Series tickets (went to the first two series via online scalped tickets).

Wouldn't trade my experience as a White Sox fan from 1990, the incredible final season at the real Comiskey Park, through 2023 with any Dodger fan, even the handful who may have flown to Texas in 2020 to watch a drunken Manfred slur the presentation of the "piece of metal" to honor the bastardized season and bogus 16 team playoff. Also never had to cheer for Bauer or Urias.

Thankfully Kenny Williams holds the "necessities" to win a legitimate Championship Season and legitimate Playoff and World Series format, 18 years more recent than these scumbag Dodgers.

 

This is the 2020 scam season in a nut shell.

 

This is the last World Series Championship season won in Dodgers Stadium, against La Russa's outmanaged ass.

 

And add 1959 to the list of Bogus Dodgers World Series.

 

1 hour ago, South Side Hit Men said:

And add 1959 to the list of Bogus Dodgers World Series.

 

Just fell into the 1959 LA Dodger rabbit hole..