Scott Mutlow

I wake up to a shitload of people ruing the Dodgers for "breaking" baseball when they have broken no rules. As weird as it sounds, I don't blame the Dodgers for the rot in baseball. I blame the Twins. The team that did jack shit for two straight years after their best season in decades, nuked the team from orbit due to inexplicably being $425 million in debt, then had ownership pat itself on the back and say they weren't selling the team at all. I blame the Athletics. Sandbagging for years to get out of Oakland, using that city as a springboard to become a soulless tourist trap in Las Vegas, play in a minor league stadium for several years, then immediately spend the most they've ever done on a free agent once they moved. I blame the Marlins. Who, despite an admittedly impressive season, have blown up the franchise five times in thirty years. I blame the Pirates. An ineptly run shitpile featuring completely unnecessary scandals involving a Clemente wall decal and Bucco Bricks found in a landfill. I blame the Rockies. The nepo team built on incompetence and one gigantic bar disguised as a stadium. The ones who wisely spent their money on an oft-injured Kris Bryant (after paying $50 million to make their franchise face at the same position go away). I blame the Angels. A franchise that exists to waste generational talents and is so deathly afraid of the luxury tax they'll do anything to avoid it. And there's more too. No, the Dodgers aren't a primary cause of baseball's rot. They're merely a symptom.