It’s always a tough decision once your team is knocked out of the playoffs. You root for the team that knocked your team out so you can go all the way out or stop watching altogether.
This season was certainly an exception if you were a San Diego Padres fan who decided to watch the MLB playoffs as no Padres fan wanted to see the Los Angeles Dodgers advance to another World Series. Momentum San Diego was knocked out of the post by the Milwaukee Brewers and it was determined that the National League Central champions adopted the Dodgers Loyalty Brothers as their team, at least in the NL.
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Milwaukee made San Diego and probably many fans around baseball rejoiced when the Brewers took Game 4 from the Dodgers by a final score of 6-4, completing a four-game sweep of baseball’s Goliath. Padres fans were thrilled. You have to love watching the Dodgers, but you have to wonder what happened. If a few things had gone differently in the NL Division Series, San Diego could have “slain the dragon” as a team, but that didn’t happen.
The Padres will have to wait for another chance to reach the precipice game and hope that it will come in 2027 with new owners Jose E. Feliciano and Kwanza Jones saying they will all bring a championship to the city of San Diego. What that will be and what it will look like is unknown, but under the manager’s first year and with a restricted operating budget to rebuild the team in the 2025-26 offseason, the Padres have built a team that just came up short. There is work to be done, but there is reason to believe that San Diego is closer than ever to reaching its ultimate goal.
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