I'm not sure which of my comments you're reacting to. I was saying that in recent years teams haven't been able to repeat playoff success (except for the 2008-09 Phillies) and that, as good as the Giants look now, no one has any idea whether they will ever do it again. The 1988 Dodgers were a borderline miracle, but I never would have believed that they wouldn't even play in another World Series in the 22 seasons after that. You never know how long it will be.
You guys got used to the likes of people like Koufax, Valenzuela, Drysdale, Lasorda, Baker, Garvey etc, it would only seem natural that you would have expected more rings in the 1990s and 2000s. But in that so-called dry spell you had Nomo, Gagne, and others. We had to rely too much on Bonds and that hurt the Giants.
I am not complaining about Bonds since he has two of the four most visible American sports records/milestones with "more than 61" home runs in a regular season which was long considered impossible, and "more than 755 career home runs", also thought impossible. I expect somebody to pass Bonds on the career home runs list in the next decade.
In the old days, two records were also mentioned, the "four minute mile" (which was shattered a lot since then by people of various nations) and the "100 points in an NBA game", which is the only American sports record which will likely remain impossible to beat. Unless some dude comes out of China who is 8 feet tall and can move like Iverson or Kobe, we won't see 100 approached. This remains the last totally outrageous, seemingly unreachable record for an American sports athlete. I would like to add Jack Nicklaus and his titles (amateur and majors), but golf is a GAME and not just a sport (taught to me growing up with all those Pebble Beach kids
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Anyway, you guys in LA have been pretty blessed with players and championships, and your Brooklyn days were not shabby, either. I always meet young LA fans who have no idea who, what, where, when, or why there was a Brooklyn Dodgers. But with five LA rings, who cares? You want to see a 6th LA ring, I know, and it's likely that you will eventually see that happen. Growing up as a kid, I never associated the Dodgers with Brooklyn, and saw the Dodgers represent LA in all that is LA with Hollywood, glamour, rock stars, the Sunset Strip, smog, and urban sprawl (the good, the bad and the ugly of Southern California and all that it represents).
To get lasting legitimacy in MLB and the NL west, we have to go head to head with you, like we did with the San Diego Padres, and beat you soundly, and also pick up a couple of more WS rings. Until that time, commentators will never put the SF Giants in the same sentence as the LA Dodgers. That being said, I am not targeting just the Dodgers, but all the NL west and the world of baseball.
I know people elsewhere, and even here think SF this year was a fluke.
