KC Royals star nails hypocritical baseball fans for Dodgers World Series take

During the NLDS, Dave Roberts shared a pretty cold take on the series, saying he wished that it was seven games long instead of five. The Dodgers' bye meant they had an almost week-long waiting period as the Wild Card games were played out, and Roberts, seemingly looking for something to blame after two mortifying losses to the Padres, sort of cast aspersions on the waiting period and quick jump back into intense competition.

He was probably happy about the five-game series when the Dodgers won Game 5, though!

There's always something to complain about. On one hand, you have fans whining about the World Series being made up of two big-market teams and claiming that there's no light for small-market teams, which is ridiculous given the fact that the Diamondbacks — who spent in the bottom third of all teams last season — went to the World Series in 2023. If anyone other than the Dodgers and Yankees made it to the Fall Classic, you'd have fans complaining about exactly what Roberts did.

Royals first baseman Vinnie Pasquantino hit the nail right on the head, correctly identifying that no matter how things had shaken out this postseason, there would be detractors one way or the other. He said, with a laughing emoji to top it off, "no one is happy with anything."

Royals 1B Vinnie Pasquantino calls out bad World Series takes ahead of Dodgers-Yankees Game 1

MLB's current playoff format isn't perfect, but last year's World Series between the Rangers and Diamondbacks, the Nos. 5 and 6 seed in the AL and NL respectively, contrasted with the No. 1 seed Dodgers and Yankees, has pretty much proven that literally anything can happen in the current framework. Upsets are possible, but sometimes the least surprising teams do the least surprising thing and make it to the World Series.

Fans moaning about big budget teams being the only teams that can truly compete for a title clearly just hate the Dodgers and Yankees, but Dodgers and Yankees fans would also be complaining about the bye if the World Series had turned out to be a Mets-Guardians matchup.

Like Pasquantino said, no one can be happy about anything. Everyone's a critic. The Dodgers can definitely deal with all of the whining about unfairness, though, when they won 98 games and have made it this far into the postseason, despite a truckload of injuries, for a good reason.