If you’re a fan of the Padres, the only good thing about the Dodgers winning the World Series, is that there will be a big asterisk next to it.
Because it has happened in 2020. They won the baseball championship but they won it in a season that was shortened by two thirds, only 60 games instead of the usual182, and they played fewer teams, and not as many really good teams.
So, with chants of “Beat L-A” that live in the minds of Padres fans, watching Los Angeles celebrate from San Diego doesn’t hurt as much as it might have hurt during a normal baseball season.
After all, we’re still dealing with having had to watch the former San Diego Chargers abandon us for L-A and then have to watch them play in a fancy new state of the art stadium in L-A, a stadium that a lot of fans here wanted to be built here.
And an added bit of hurt for longtime sports fans in San Diego was to see our admittedly long ago NBA team, the Clippers, lose in the playoffs, despite having San Diego’s greatest college basketball player ever in Aztec Kahwi Leonard, and then having to watch the Los Angeles Lakers win the championship.
But like the Dodger’s title, the Lakers title also will have a basketball sized asterisk next to it.
So with what this year of the pandemic has been like, as we all look forward to 2021, San Diego baseball fans probably can’t wait till next year when they can be in the stands to yell “Beat L-A” and watch the Padres do it!
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