The long-awaited World Series...

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Publicado: 22/10/2024 · 12:05 p.m. MX | Actualizado: 22/10/2024 · 12:05 p.m. MX

Of course, for everyone, this clash between the Los Angeles Dodgers and the New York Yankees was the best news possible.

It is not that they belittled the Cleveland Guardians and the anecdotal New York Mets, simply, after what we had as the highest instance the previous year (Arizona Diamondbacks against Texas Rangers), a confrontation with a lot of expectation and very high ratings was necessary. For those of us who lived through that epic of 1981 with the Dodgers using the arm of a tremendous chubby athlete in the Mexican lexicon, a left-hander who made the strong Mexican-American fans of southern California connect, we can attest, with that lavish memory, how the king of sports can be a powerful connecting thread between society and a desire for collective triumph, a dream come true: a young man of humble origins triumphing in a top city of the great North American and world power.

If that longed-for reappearance of the great Fernando Valenzuela happens, after his closely guarded health issues, it would be an opportune sign of how timing is something wonderful in the face of a great World Series, which we have waited 43 long years for a repeat. That meeting between both franchises (since the Dodgers were from Brooklyn) already has eleven previous battles, with a favorable balance for those from the Bronx: 8-3 at the moment. Very expensive tickets and high expectations between two cities of great rivalry, from the iron city to the jewel of the Californian coast, passing through the entire nation of the stars and stripes, which also, in the same days, debates whether a lady or a gentleman will be the best option for their perspective of life, without going into details...

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Luckily the round ball comes in a square box, and here on the diamond you don’t win by votes, but with the best hit, the best catch and the unmistakable serpentine with His Majesty, the pitch.

Returning to the memory of that distant 1981 of good rock: these series adjust, unbalance, form, establish, confirm idols, lead to a baseball Olympus or, sometimes, to an apparently unfair oblivion, where a kind of unknown hero also emerges, or an insurer of victories fails at the right moment. True great players on each side, and with the Yankees, that offensive triad of Aaron Judge, Juan Soto and Giancarlo Stanton is scary enough for Halloween. Any of them can destroy the 108-seam at any time, well supported by the only Mexican in the duel, an Alex Verdugo proud of his roots and playing with a lot of heart.

The Dodgers can boast of Mookie Betts as a high-level great player, although the truth is Shohei Ohtani is from another planet and all of Japan will be watching this Classic, he is a ratings phenomenon, the samurai of the bat.

Outcome? What a mess... You say it and we will comment!

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