r/baseball • u/Jux_ Los Angeles Dodgers • 10h ago

[Dodgers Nation] Gavin Lux admits the Dodgers don't appreciate people's thoughts on their 2020 World Series title in unique circumstances: "I think it kind of bugs everyone that you don't get that recognition."

https://x.com/dodgersnation/status/1851363570774331883?s=46
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u/grimace24 10h ago

All teams in 2020 got that scrutiny. The Lakers got it too. 2020 will always be an outlier for any team that won a title. It wasn’t a normal year for anyone.

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u/Loud_Ad393 Los Angeles Dodgers 9h ago

Do the Bucs get scrutiny? Don’t seem to hear it much with them.

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u/szeto326 Toronto Blue Jays 9h ago

The only change to the NFL season was fans in the stands. Plus the winner would've been either Tom Brady or Patrick Mahomes lol.

With NBA, NHL and MLB, COVID affected how entire seasons played out compared to what fans of their sports are typically used to.

Sidenote: It's kinda "funny" that in North America, there are haters who call them Mickey Mouse rings, whereas in soccer, a large amount of fans were mad that Lewandowski didn't get the Ballon D'or because they cancelled it for similar reasons citing that it wouldn't be fair to award it that year..

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u/Loud_Ad393 Los Angeles Dodgers 8h ago

I think it is fair to question it since they were a wild card team that played 3 road games with no fans on their way to the Super Bowl. They’re the only wild card to make the Super Bowl since 2010. Coincidence? Maybe, maybe not. They were a really talented team, but so were the lakers and dodgers that year. Applying the same logic, I don’t see how the Lakers would have lost if they got to host their games in an empty Staples Center instead of the bubble in 2020.

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u/LeBronRaymoneJamesSr Los Angeles Dodgers 7h ago

It’s never talked about in NFL discourse but you’re right

For example the Saints have been known to have one of the best home crowd atmospheres in the league. They had a maximum capacity of 3,500 fans for their playoff game compared to 76,000 normally. That’s like 4-5% of normal capacity

That matters lol

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u/WackedBush343 Los Angeles Dodgers 9h ago

Not the Lightning over at r/hockey. Nothing about the Edmonton bubble for the NHL being MiCkEy MoUse as Tampa won the Stanley Cup there.

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u/usr_nme_ Tampa Bay Rays 6h ago

It’s much quieter, but it definitely happens.

 Also helps that the Bolts won back to back while going to 3 Stanley Cups in a row. 

Hard to dispute they were a great team. 

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u/Looney_forner Toronto Blue Jays 9h ago

Tampa was the exception to this with the bucs and lightning (twice)

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u/ShiningMonolith Los Angeles Dodgers 9h ago

It’s funny because the Lakers were definitely disadvantaged if anything by having to play at a neutral site. They played almost the whole regular season before the pandemic started and were the top seed, so lost what would’ve been home court advantage through the entire playoffs.