Well, Dodger fam, it’s been almost a week since the Washington Nationals won the World Series. How are we feeling about the way everything shook out?



Judging from all the tweets and emails you sent me, this was the best possible winner for most of you, based on the four teams that advanced to the league championship series. While the Yankees and Dodgers have not met in the playoffs since 1981, New York has won the World Series too many times, and nobody enjoys a ball hog. With the Cardinals and Astros directly responsible for so much of your stabbing and festering misery during recent Dodger playoff runs, I’m guessing your preferred winner of that World Series matchup would have been a well-placed meteor.



So, even though the team that bounced the Dodgers went on to win the World Series for the fourth (!) year in a row, I think it went as well as it could, given the other possibilities. The Nationals winning it all helps the Dodgers in another less obvious...