{"id":51589,"date":"2026-10-15T12:31:06","date_gmt":"2026-10-15T17:31:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=51589"},"modified":"2026-10-16T12:31:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T17:31:13","slug":"cant-even-think-of-a-good-post-title-to-express-how-satisfying-it-is-that-the-dodgers-got-swept-out-of-the-playoffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=51589","title":{"rendered":"Can\u2019t even think of a good post title to express how satisfying it is that the Dodgers got swept out of the playoffs"},"content":{"rendered":"

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ESPN<\/a>: Milwaukee Brewers sweep Dodgers in the NLCS, advance to the World Series<\/span><\/p>\n

First things first, congratulations to the Milwaukee Brewers for breaking through the glass ceiling and advancing to the World Series.\u00a0 I would be totally fine with a Brewers championship, and at this point I don\u2019t even care who wins the World Series between them, the Rays and the Indians<\/span> Guardians who are still duking it out in the ALCS.\u00a0 Because when the day is over, if I couldn\u2019t have the Braves, then it really didn\u2019t matter who won\u2014as long as it wasn\u2019t the Dodgers.<\/span><\/p>\n

And no disrespect to the Brewers or the Rays or the Guardians, but this post really isn\u2019t about them, it\u2019s about the Dodgers, and the sheer power of satisfaction that is derived from hate, namely like most people who don\u2019t reside in Southern California, the general dislike for the Dodgers; and the gargantuan horde of their fairweather soft-ass worst in baseball, fans with air quotes.<\/span><\/p>\n

I\u2019ve thought about it a lot over the last few weeks of playoff baseball, and yeah I don\u2019t really care much for the Dodgers, and I don\u2019t want to see them win and succeed and secure the vaunted three-peat that has eluded even the most dominant teams in baseball history.\u00a0 But the thing is, I don\u2019t really dislike a lot of their players, like should be the case whenever anyone says they don\u2019t like a particular team.\u00a0 Obviously it starts with Freddie Freeman, a guy I\u2019m incapable of disliking, and then there\u2019s Mookie Betts, who always comes off as charming, chill and an all-around cool guy.<\/span><\/p>\n

Despite the fact that hater culture is supposed to dislike guys making insane amounts of money, I don\u2019t harbor any genuine ill-will to Shohei Ohtani; yes he has changed the deferred money game with his $700 million deal, and he might have a poorly-hidden gambling problem, but he does play the game with an air of integrity and brings Japanese courtesy into the spotlight, that he remains a pretty likeable guy.\u00a0 Even Yoshinobu Yamamoto, whom I was very skeptical of for receiving a ridiculous $300M deal before even throwing an MLB pitch has turned into one of the most talented pitchers in the game, and a complete Iceman once the playoffs come around.\u00a0 In hindsight, he\u2019s not only been absolutely worth every penny he\u2019s been paid, he\u2019s erring on the side of underpaid, considering just how good, how reliable and how many results he\u2019s delivered.<\/span><\/p>\n

I do have not nice feelings about guys like Blake<\/span> Balakey Snell because I think he\u2019s a money-grubbing spinster who only wants to play when it\u2019s most critical, and I get this really negative vibe from Tarik Skubal and I hope he bounces in free agency although the Dodgers are always in play due to their penchant for creative contract structures.\u00a0 And Max Muncy, I can\u2019t stand, because as decent of a player he objectively is, on a team like the Dodgers, he\u2019s still a fourth-tier contributor, but runs his mouth and acts bigger than he actually is and I like to see him fail, almost as satisfying as it was to see Snell take the L in the critical game 3 that was their true do-or-die night.<\/span><\/p>\n

But the absolute most satisfying thing about the Dodgers not just losing to the Brewers, but getting swept, eliminated and sent packing to Cancun, is the sheer fact that all of their insufferable, shitty, fairweather fans, no longer have any reason to be happy anymore, and much like the team they act like they follow, their season is over.<\/span><\/p>\n

Seriously, I\u2019ve encountered fanbases in all variety of sports, and none of them are as bad as Dodgers fans.\u00a0 I\u2019m talking about Philadelphia sports fans, Yankee fans, Red Sox fans, Alabama fans, Miami Heat fans, San Francisco sports fans.\u00a0 Awful, insufferable and terrible in their own ways, but none of them are bad as Dodgers fans.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

First, since most of them haven\u2019t even been fans long enough to even remember who Clayton Kershaw is, much less Sandy Koufax or Fernando Valenzuela, they don\u2019t actually know what it\u2019s like to suffer the bad times of sports fandom and have no modicum of grit or toughness that comes from the passage of time of playing annual games of emotional attachment to our respective teams.\u00a0 That said, they\u2019re all soft, and have absolutely no ability to tolerate being in the crosshairs of all other sports fans, and resort to uncreative and weak retorts, often just going straight to personal attacking, which in the arena of talking shit on the internet is basically tantamount to waving a white flag.<\/span><\/p>\n

They\u2019re sore losers, and even more sore winners, and have a tendency to gloat and circle jerk at any of their successes, as if exploiting payroll policies as if they were playing baseball team management with a Game Genie attached to it.\u00a0 They can\u2019t handle any sort of criticism from fans of other bases, but their only real strength are their numbers that have the capability to overwhelm and flood out any shit talk that they can\u2019t handle.<\/span><\/p>\n

And much like the general vibe of Southern California living, they\u2019re mostly comprised of flakey, douchey, attention-seeking, vapid, and under-sports-educated douche flakes.\u00a0 The Algorithm feeding me clips of Dodgers fans reels and content felt like AI trolling, and I found myself getting so inundated by so much of their bullshit that I had to eventually start manually thumbs downing them so I could hopefully not see them any further.<\/span><\/p>\n

Needless to say, this whole diatribe reinforces the notion that the vast majority of my general dislikes for certain sports teams, almost always stems from their fans, and the unfortunate fact that in this connected world with social media outlets, it\u2019s nigh impossible to not be exposed to them in some fashion.\u00a0 And over the last few years, with the rise of the Dodgers, their fans have absolutely launched themselves to the top of the mountain as being the absolute shittiest fans out there.<\/span><\/p>\n

And seeing them all suffer, and knowing that their season with all their hopes and aspirations for the three-peat have all come to a brutal halt, is among the chief reasons why it\u2019s so satisfying that the Dodgers lost.<\/span><\/p>\n

I love that it came at a sweep, because few things in sport are more humiliating than getting swept.\u00a0 Losing game 1 probably made all their shitty fans cry luck, fluke, we can still even things up tomorrow.\u00a0 Losing game 2 brought more anxiety and concern, but there have been many examples in history where a team dropped 0-2 and still come back to win a best of seven.\u00a0 But game 3 was the best, because it was started by Balakey Snell, he who played hardball with the league and got a fat 5\/$182M deal with the Dodgers with their usual deferred payment plan bullshit, rode the train to a World Series last year, and pulled his usual loaf-in-first-half, start-trying-in-second-half this season, and still got knocked around in both of his starts in this year\u2019s playoffs, when he was presumably in try-mode.<\/span><\/p>\n

But as most baseball\/sports fans know, falling 0-3 is basically the kiss of death, seeing as how outside of hockey, only one team in sports history has ever overcome 0-3, being the 2004 Boston Red Sox that Dodgers manager Dave Roberts also happened to play a pivotal role in<\/a>.\u00a0 Although probably nothing in sports history would be worse than the Dodgers overcoming an 0-3 deficit, math was most definitely not on their side.<\/span><\/p>\n

I predicted that either the Brewers would win in a blowout, or the Dodgers would win game 4 by a slim margin, because they had to have been in full blown panic mode, all hands would be on deck, and survival was all that mattered, and in cases like that, either their gambles pay off, or they blow up in their faces, with no middle ground.<\/span><\/p>\n

When Ohtani finally broke out of his annual playoff slump, with a grandiose three-run home run, I thought to myself, oh boy, here\u2019s the catalyst for the improbably and inevitably insufferable comeback for the ages, but the Milwaukee Brewers of all teams in history, this 2026 edition, seemed to shrug it off, and began chipping away at the deficit, and by the time the 9th<\/sup> inning rolled around, had hung six unanswered runs, and were on the precipice of advancing to the World Series, but more importantly, sweeping the disliked Dodgers out of the playoffs and effectively saving the game of baseball, at least before it will more than likely go on strike after this season.<\/span><\/p>\n

And the best part about the whole thing, is that this all happened at Dodger Stadium, and all their shitty fairweather fans who were mostly there because it\u2019s just the cool thing to do in LA and don\u2019t actually know shit about baseball, got to see this epic meltdown of expensive proportions, and got to take part in being on the wrong side of the decision that every sports fans that isn\u2019t impressed by the Dodgers, was rooting for to happen.<\/span><\/p>\n

Honestly, I think I can comfortably say that the Dodgers losing and getting bounced from the playoffs brings me more joy than if the Braves had won the NLCS and gone to the World Series.\u00a0 That\u2019s the power of sports hate.<\/span><\/p>\n

At this point, I don\u2019t even care who wins the World Series.\u00a0 I think it would be a gasser, if the Brewers who swept and have to wait, lose all their momentum and go ice cold, while the ALCS maybe goes all seven games, and the 85-win Guardians emerge, and riding momentum, topples the Brew Crew, and we have another season of a shitty weak squad getting hot at the right moment, Cleveland\u2019s sports curse is snapped, and then baseball goes on strike.\u00a0 But as long as it\u2019s not going to be the Dodgers hoisting the Commissioner\u2019s trophy at the end, it\u2019s all going to be good.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

ESPN: Milwaukee Brewers sweep Dodgers in the NLCS, advance to the World Series First things first, congratulations to the Milwaukee Brewers for breaking through the glass ceiling and advancing to the World Series.\u00a0 I would be totally fine with a Brewers championship, and at this point I don\u2019t even care who wins the World Series … Continue reading Can\u2019t even think of a good post title to express how satisfying it is that the Dodgers got swept out of the playoffs<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[62,66,79,100,45,205,83,52,58],"class_list":["post-51589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-baseball","tag-braves","tag-cashmoney","tag-comparison","tag-fail","tag-mlb","tag-observations","tag-owned","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51589"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51591,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51589\/revisions\/51591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}