Just Saya-ing
By Saya Fujii
By Saya Fujii
Being a San Francisco Giants fan has not been the greatest experience this offseason, but it has been made significantly worse by the crazy moves the Los Angeles Dodgers have been making.
One of the easily biggest news in sports this past winter was that the Dodgers spent a total of a billion dollars to acquire Japanese superstars Shohei Ohtani and Yoshinobu Yamamoto.
As expected, they had to go to the Dodgers, the organization that seems to have an infinite amount of money. This was frustrating because it creates a huge disadvantage for other teams that are smaller organizations with less money, since the correlation between spending big bucks on players and that team doing well is definitely there.
With Ohtani and Yamamoto, the Dodgers are the obvious World Series winner this year, it isn’t even a question. It will be ridiculous and laughable if they don’t win. So that makes the competition gap very clear, meaning that the playoff season will not be all that interesting to watch. This is pretty bad for the sport itself as it has been struggling to stay relevant as most people find it “boring.” Imagine how much worse that will be this season. I highly doubt that anyone who isn’t a Dodgers fan wants to watch the playoffs knowing which team will go home with the title.
I’m not saying that this system should change. That will be very difficult, but there has to be a cap on the spending at some point because a billion dollars on two players is absolutely ridiculous. At the very least, I will enjoy cheering twice as hard when (or if) the Dodgers lose a game this season.
One of the easily biggest news in sports this past winter was that the Dodgers spent a total of a billion dollars to acquire Japanese superstars Shohei Ohtani and Yoshinobu Yamamoto.
As expected, they had to go to the Dodgers, the organization that seems to have an infinite amount of money. This was frustrating because it creates a huge disadvantage for other teams that are smaller organizations with less money, since the correlation between spending big bucks on players and that team doing well is definitely there.
With Ohtani and Yamamoto, the Dodgers are the obvious World Series winner this year, it isn’t even a question. It will be ridiculous and laughable if they don’t win. So that makes the competition gap very clear, meaning that the playoff season will not be all that interesting to watch. This is pretty bad for the sport itself as it has been struggling to stay relevant as most people find it “boring.” Imagine how much worse that will be this season. I highly doubt that anyone who isn’t a Dodgers fan wants to watch the playoffs knowing which team will go home with the title.
I’m not saying that this system should change. That will be very difficult, but there has to be a cap on the spending at some point because a billion dollars on two players is absolutely ridiculous. At the very least, I will enjoy cheering twice as hard when (or if) the Dodgers lose a game this season.