""You're telling me I'm supposed to get excited about a Canadian baseball team and a team who just spends more money than everybody else? Who the f- cares about either? That's why baseball sucks. You just buy World Series championships... Everybody knew this was going to happen before the season. We just had a bunch of meaningless s- happen before it, then it happened.""
""What got us to the position we're in, the position of being able to have lost the World Series at any point in the World Series, 20 different ways, was because yes, we had a high payroll. But those people need to be led and developed, and we need to be backed up by a farm system that is productive year in and year out. Without that, we couldn't compete.""
The Los Angeles Dodgers won the World Series after extensive spending in free agency, which sparked social media criticism and claims that the team 'bought' the championship. Former NFL center Jason Kelce publicly denounced the outcome, calling the result unexciting and asserting that high spending makes baseball suck because championships can be bought. The Dodgers had the largest payroll in baseball last season, though other high‑payroll teams like the Mets and Yankees did not advance past divisional rounds. Dodgers president and part‑owner Stan Kasten rejected the buying‑championship premise, noting historical evidence and citing player development, leadership, and a productive farm system as essential to success.
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