Dodgers president uses Bryce Harper's own words to clap back at fellow Philly star

"The Dodgers are buying championships" has become a common refrain in baseball, and former Philadelphia Eagles center Jason Kelce parroted it word for word after LA's World Series win.

"So you're telling me I'm supposed to get excited about a Canadian baseball team, and a team that just spends more money than everybody else?" he said on the New Heights podcast that he co-hosts with his brother Travis. "That's why baseball sucks! You just buy World Series championships. It's the dumbest thing in the world."

He managed to rile up both Blue Jays and Dodgers fans alike with those comments, but he only issued an apology (kind of) to Canadian fans, writing on Twitter, "Guys, I love Canada. [...] I was actually rooting for the Blue Jays in a World Series that I didn't care about. [...] I was just talking s— about not being personally invested of caring that the team that spent the most money and built a super team won the World Series."

Dodgers president Stan Kasten issued the perfect response on Jayson Stark's Starkville podcast. "Usually the team with the highest payroll doesn't win the World Series," he said. "I hate to throw facts at him, but I will throw one quote from someone in his city, and that's Bryce Harper, who said the only people complaining are losers. I think he's exactly right."

Stan Kasten responds to Jason Kelce's viral dismissal of Dodgers' World Series win by quoting Bryce Harper

In 2023, the World Series champion Rangers had the fourth-highest payroll in baseball; the 2022 Astros had the eighth-highest. The 2021 Braves sat in 10th. The Dodgers didn't even have the highest payroll in baseball in 2024; they were outspent by the Yankees and Mets. Of course, that didn't account for the $68 million Shohei Ohtani deferred, but it did count Yoshinobu Yamamoto and Will Smith's massive signing bonuses.

Dodgers fans are tired of having to explain it to everyone else: every owner of every team is a multimillionaire, if not a billionaire, and can afford to do what the Dodgers are doing if they really wanted to.

Maybe Kelce should've taken his fellow Philly pro's statement as a warning. Complaining about the Dodgers makes you look like a loser. Stick to football next time, guy.