Dodgers win World Series

They end a 32 year drought. I was in 4th grade the last time they won. 

Good series overall. Every game was competitive.

Once again the team with the larger payroll wins it all. We still have only 2 champions in this century who were in the bottom half of the league in payroll (and one of those was the cheating Astros).

Appalling decision by Kevin Cash to pull Blake Snell in the 6th. Given the stakes this was even worse than Baldelli pulling Maeda and Berrios. Guy is shutting out the Dodgers in a World Series elimination game, but you care more about what the analytics say than what is actually happening. Imagine Jack Morris getting yanked in game 7. Snell won't be pitching again til whenever spring training starts next year, and is pitching the biggest game of his life, and you yank him. Cash will never live this down.

Brusdar Graterol wins a ring. The Maeda trade was still a good one by the Twins. The Red Sox have to feel worse about it after giving up Mookie Betts.

Thus concludes the 2020 COVID MLB season. Nothing in it ever really felt right. It was the first time since 2001 that I didn't go to a single ballgame.

Hopefully 2021 brings us a full 162 games, and a chance to get back to Target Field. 

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