Explain to me why the Dodgers won't win the world series this year

frick the Dodgers.

And that's a good enough reason for me.

You could have said this in previous years as well. It’s baseball they could lose a series. They clearly have the best lineup.

Market price is around +300, implying a 25% chance. Even if that’s not perfectly accurate, it’s realistically no better than maybe 33%.

Which is the only reason that matters really.

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You could have said this in previous years as well. It’s baseball they could lose a series. They clearly have the best lineup.

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They werent nearly as dominant as they seem this year. This seems like year they won't get beat by some wildcard thats on fire going into the postseason.

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Because another team gets hot and beats them

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But usually that starts before the postseason, so who is that team this year? Last year it was the Braves and in 2019 it was the Nats who were scorching hot in the 2nd half of the season.

106 and 104 wins in 2017 and 2019. That pretty close to where they are now.

because baseball is a crazy sport when you try to distill it down to a single best of 5/7

wow, that was easy

B/c Dave Roberts is the manager.

Braves

Same reason why they failed to win the World Series in their previous seasons. They build such a huge lead that they always play pretty much zero games with significance in September. Then they have to play a team who had to crawl and fight to make the playoffs who are used to having to win pressure packed games down the stretch. Not surprisingly, that team ends up dealing better with the pressure than the Dodgers and they end up losing to that team in the playoffs.