What’s wrong with you people? You all want to beat “The Best?”
This is America for God’s sake: the land of mere appearances, where attitude and confidence reign supreme and where no greater substance nestling beneath is required.
Of course I’m joking, and it would be more emotionally satisfying to finish beating Cleveland, and then beat the Yankees, then the Dodgers.
But great wars are often won for prosaic reasons other than great strategy or superior combat skills. Sometimes an army wins simply because they had more access to food or fuel, so it ends up being kind of lame.
if we beat Cleveland and then the Royals and then the Padres people are only going to remember “World Series 2024” and how the Tigers outfought every team while lacking most of the resources that other teams have and that will be considered an astonishing outcome.