And, Hey, Congratulations to Texas

[Edgy MD]

It's an ugly ballpark, and I'm not veering off that opinion, but it's a first championship for the franchise and offers a lifetime of credit to Jacob deGrom, Travis Jankowski, and Max Scherzer, and some small reflected glory to Jon Matlack, Bobby Valentine, Lee Mazzilli, and, um, Lenny Randle.



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[kcmets]

deGrom got his ring. 2-0 2.67 ERA whopping 30 innings pitched.



He and his family must swell with pride.

[Frayed Knot]

This reduces the franchises without a WS title to their name to the Mariners, Padres, Rays, and Brewers

Only the Mariners have failed to appear in a WS



And speaking of post-season success (or lack there of) for those keeping track (meaning: me) this keeps the number of MLB teams

with a WS title during the last 20 years at 13 as the Rangers jump on that list just as the Marlins and their 2003 title fall off it.

19 different teams have played in the last 20 World Series.

And the Diamondbacks had been one of the five teams who hadn't appeared in one or the other LCS in that time [2001] but they now

jump off that list while the Marlins jump on it. Reds, Pirates, Mariners, and Twins are the current others.

[nymr83]

Seattle to me is the craziest team on that list - a team that AT THE SAME TIME employed Randy Johnson, Ken Griffey jr, Alex Rodriguez, and Edgar Martinez.



At least they were a playoff team, but they rank ahead of even the Ohtani/Trout Angels as far as wasting talent without a championship goes.

[Frayed Knot]

They got to the ALCS in 1995, 2000, and 2001, losing 4-2, 4-2, and 4-1

But all they've got to show since then is a 2-0 WC win (vs TOR) followed by 3-0 ALDS sweep loss last year to eventual

champ Houston with 21 seasons of nuthin' in between.

[Edgy MD]

Award championships to the team with the best season record and that the Mariners not only fall off that list, but their 2001 team gets recognized as among the best of all time.

[G-Fafif]

It's all about the likes of this guy.

[Fman99]

Yeah it'd be brutal to root for the same team for 30-40 years while watching them never win the World Series in all that time.

[TransMonk]

=kcmets post_id=140425 time=1698969664 user_id=53]
deGrom got his ring. 2-0 2.67 ERA whopping 30 innings pitched.



He and his family must swell with pride.

[kcmets]

=TransMonk post_id=140452 time=1699028407 user_id=71]They won all 6 games he appeared in. That's the difference between them being in the playoffs or not.

[TransMonk]

I was being half-sarcastic, too.

[Frayed Knot]

Frayed Knot wrote: This reduces the franchises without a WS title to their name to the Mariners, Padres, Rays, and Brewers Only the Mariners have failed to appear in a WS

I neglected to note the Rox as a winless WS franchise, so it's five with only SEA failing to reach one.

If you cut off history to include only the 'Super Bowl era' then CLE gets added to the non-WS champ list (last win in 1948) but not the non-appearance list.



NFL franchises without a SB you ask?

Twelve [bUF, CIN, CLE, JAX, HOU, TEN, LAC, DET, MIN, ATL, CAR, ARI] with three never appearing in one [CLE, HOU, DET]



So how's that parity-inducing salary cap thing working?