Walker Buehler has perfect NSFW quote to silence every Dodgers hater, Alex Verdugo

With just half an inning to go until they clinched a World Series championship, with the smallest possible lead and the Yankees given one last gasp of air, the Dodgers tasked Walker Buehler with getting the final three outs.

That probably would've struck fear into the hearts of Dodgers fans as recently as three weeks ago. It still sort of did, given that it was Buehler's first relief appearance since 2018 and his spotty track record this year, but his start in Game 3 had completely changed the narrative for him.

The bottom of the Yankees' order — Anthony Volpe, Austin Wells, and Alex Verdugo — staged some good at-bats against Buehler ... well, at least Volpe and Wells did, before Verdugo whiffed at three straight pitches out of the zone, and the Dodgers won their eighth franchise title. Buehler got to complete his redemption arc.

As the Dodgers celebrated on the field at Yankee Stadium, he was characteristically foul-mouthed when addressing all of the detractors from the Dodgers' last World Series win in 2020. He said, "Everyone talks s— about 2020, but there's not much they can say about it now."

Walker Buehler slams Dodgers' 2020 World Series detractors after closing Game 5

It's also worth noting that one of those detractors was ... Verdugo himself.

The opposing fans who refuse to accept the Dodgers' 2020 title will probably never accept it, but there's a lot less bite to that argument now that the Dodgers have won for the second time in a decade, and after a full 162-game regular season this time.

The Dodgers have had their doubters all throughout the season, ever since that miserable Opening Day game in Seoul against the Padres. We'll hold our hands up and say that we were oftentimes among them. But we've also never been so happy to be proven wrong.

Now, the Dodgers will have to hear a lot of noise from those same 2020 deniers about buying championships, but that's fine. They definitely haven't been plugged into the Dodgers' season. Andrew Friedman and the front office put their best foot forward with their offseason, but there's still a lot to unpack about how Shohei Ohtani could not hit a baseball during the World Series, and a lot to interrogate about the root cause of all of the Dodgers' pitching injuries this season.

But for now, the Dodgers get to enjoy the parade they missed out on in 2020, and all of the s— talkers will be drowned out for a day.