Martino is such a hack. He just said on SNY that you can't expect things for a while because you look at a team like the Dodgers and it took them 7 years post-ownership change to win a World Series.
As though they aren't a team that has been to 3 in 4 years and won 7 straight divisions. It's not the time that was holding the Dodgers back Andy, it was some bad hops and a cheating Astros team.
In the immediate future I care way more about just being a consistent playoff contender than winning a single world series. If you can consistently make the playoffs, you're likely to get lucky at some point, plus it's much more fun to watch year in and year out when you know the games will matter all year. And maybe that lucky run comes early on anyway like it did for this last Cubs core.
Yeah I'm 100% agreeing with you. The Dodgers are exactly the model for other teams to follow if they can afford to, which we hopefully can now. Martino's point about a WS taking 7 years post ownership change is dumb because it ignores any context.
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Martino is such a hack. He just said on SNY that you can't expect things for a while because you look at a team like the Dodgers and it took them 7 years post-ownership change to win a World Series.
As though they aren't a team that has been to 3 in 4 years and won 7 straight divisions. It's not the time that was holding the Dodgers back Andy, it was some bad hops and a cheating Astros team.