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I don’t even think that person was a Dodgers fan. I suspect it was someone who saw Shohei Otani play exactly one game (or more likely heard about exactly one game Ohtani played) and decided the 2025 Dodgers were “the best team ever assembled”

Rat Milk Oreos @morsmortis.bsky.social · 19h

Did I make that person delete their post?

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Rat Milk Oreos @morsmortis.bsky.social · 20h

I feel like no real Dodgers fan would call this year’s team “the best ever assembled”

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Rat Milk Oreos @morsmortis.bsky.social · 21h

Just thinking about how well Spiders merch would sell compared to “Guardians” almost makes me angry

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Rat Milk Oreos @morsmortis.bsky.social · 22h

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Illinois First! - Songs About The Land Of Lincoln

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Rat Milk Oreos @morsmortis.bsky.social · 22h

for the record, *this* is the skull & crossbones tattoo we wanna see on a candidate:

white skull & crossbones over a white outline of the state of Illinois against a black background

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Rat Milk Oreos @morsmortis.bsky.social · 22h

You also definitely never take your shirt off in public until you’ve covered it up!

Rat Milk Oreos @morsmortis.bsky.social · 1d

Probably also worth noting that they don’t have home field advantage in the World Series because *the Blue Jays have a better record*

Rat Milk Oreos @morsmortis.bsky.social · 1d

They don’t even have home field advantage for the World Series!

Rat Milk Oreos @morsmortis.bsky.social · 1d

ever think about how completely insane it is that the Cleveland baseball team went with “Guardians” over “Spiders” when choosing a new name?

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Rat Milk Oreos @morsmortis.bsky.social · 1d

Definitely not!

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Rat Milk Oreos @morsmortis.bsky.social · 1d

The Dodgers also very much do not have “the best team ever assembled”

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Rat Milk Oreos @morsmortis.bsky.social · 3d

Also how can it not make you a little bit romantic about baseball that the five worst postseason run-scoring performances in MLB history are spread across

1905
1963
1966
1990
2025

Rat Milk Oreos @morsmortis.bsky.social · 3d

Overall, only two teams have scored fewer than four runs in best-of-seven (or longer) series: the Philadelphia A’s in the 1905 World Series (3 runs) and the Los Angeles Dodgers in the 1966 World Series (2 runs!!)

(The 1963 Yankees are the only other team to score as few as four in a World Series)

Rat Milk Oreos @morsmortis.bsky.social · 3d

btw, in case this feels like too much schadenfreude, it was driven primarily by remembering how listless the Cubs looked in both the 2015 & 2017 NLCS and wondering if they were *this* bad (the answer is “not quite, but almost!)

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Rat Milk Oreos @morsmortis.bsky.social · 3d

all-time World Series low for hits is 17 by those 1966 Dodgers who only managed two runs against the Baltimore Orioles

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Rat Milk Oreos @morsmortis.bsky.social · 3d

Looks like 14 hits, however, is an all-time MLB low in a best-of-seven series *and* an all-time LCS low, records formerly held respectively by St Louis Cardinals (16) in their 2019 NLCS loss to the Nationals and the 1982 Atlanta Braves (15) in their best-of-five NLCS loss to the Cardinals

Rat Milk Oreos @morsmortis.bsky.social · 3d

Correct me if I’m wrong (I might be), but by scoring in the 8th inning yesterday the Brewers avoiding setting the record for fewest runs scored in a best-of-seven LCS, instead tying the 1990 Red Sox, who also scored one run in each of their four losses to the Oakland A’s

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Rat Milk Oreos @morsmortis.bsky.social · 3d

The 1905 A’s also not only managed to win a game, but won it 3-0, getting shut out in all four of their losses

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Rat Milk Oreos @morsmortis.bsky.social · 3d

Overall, only two teams have scored fewer than four runs in best-of-seven (or longer) series: the Philadelphia A’s in the 1905 World Series (3 runs) and the Los Angeles Dodgers in the 1966 World Series (2 runs!!)

(The 1963 Yankees are the only other team to score as few as four in a World Series)

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Rat Milk Oreos @morsmortis.bsky.social · 3d

Two teams have scored fewer runs in an LCS, but both were in pre-1985 best-of-five series: the 1983 White Sox and 1970 Pirates each scored only three runs apiece in those series (the White Sox didn’t even get swept though - they won game 1!)

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