We just survived an incredibly dumb offseason in Major League Baseball, as far as online discourse goes. The Dodgers won the World Series last year and then signed several very good players in the offseason. You know how it goes from there. Kicking, screaming, whining, the works. No fair!
Life ain’t fair, man.
I’m looking forward to getting this season underway and it starts for the other 28 teams — the Cubs and Dodgers have played twice already — on Thursday. Heading in, we know the following as facts:
- The NFL last had a repeat champion in the 2023-24 season.
- The NBA last had a repeat champion in 2019 and might very well have one in 2025.
- The NHL last had a repeat champion in 2021.
- The WNBA last had a repeat champion in 2023.
- College football last had a repeat champ in 2022.
- Men’s college basketball saw UConn repeat in 2023-24.
- For women’s college basketball, we have to go all the way back to … 2016 to find a repeat champ.
Is that enough yet? Because Major League Baseball hasn’t seen a repeat World Series champion since 1998-2000 when the Yankees hoisted the trophy three years in a row and four of five years.
Sure, the Dodgers are a pretty decent bet to change things and repeat this season. They…
