Does 2020 World Series winner get the dreaded asterisk?
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There will be no asterisk but it will casually be mentioned forever. Also, who says things are back to normal for sports next year? Look around the world, Covid (and most other things) are currently getting worse.
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I'm a no, and I was a no since the first pitch of the season. The Reds beat the Black Sox in 1919, the Astros beat the Dodgers in 2017, and there were several World Series champs while some of the best baseball players in the world were over seas fighting in World War 2 or forced to play in a different league because of the way they looked.
All of the best players in the world played this year with very few exceptions. If you've watched any of the playoff games this year you can see plainly that it means something to the people that are on the field. Yes, it was only a 60 game season and yes they played in front of empty stadiums. But, you had to go through an extra round of playoffs, including a 3 game series.
Whoever ends up winning this year will hand out rings and raise a banner.
It counts.
Go Dodgers!!!!
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No.
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Let's go Yoyers!!! (Clap Clap Clap)
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I don’t think it’s an asterisk but it should be considered a different championship. Part of what makes the World Series championship so impressive is the ability to endure a 162 game season & then defeat teams in the playoffs. A 60 game season is a entirely different thing. Example...The Rays usually fade down the stretch because they overuse their bullpen year after year. They didn’t have to worry about that this year.
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@JediOfArgonath said in Does 2020 World Series winner get the dreaded asterisk?:
I don’t think it’s an asterisk but it should be considered a different championship. Part of what makes the World Series championship so impressive is the ability to endure a 162 game season & then defeat teams in the playoffs. A 60 game season is a entirely different thing. Example...The Rays usually fade down the stretch because they overuse their bullpen year after year. They didn’t have to worry about that this year.
Fair point, but on the flip side with how the playoffs were set up this year you had to use a lot more pitchers and it was its own grind. Do the Nats win the World Series last year if they can’t pitch scherzer and strasburg in every other game?
Adding to your points, though, I am a little wary of adding more playoff teams. I think it will diminish the 162 game accomplishment of winning your division.
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Props and respect to the winner. More difficult to win in a season like this, I think.
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@Ch-76-1908 said in Does 2020 World Series winner get the dreaded asterisk?:
There will be no asterisk but it will casually be mentioned forever. Also, who says things are back to normal for sports next year? Look around the world, Covid (and most other things) are currently getting worse.
Nobody ever talks about the strike-shortened 1981 season as being anything other than a normal championship.
No reason to think this is any different
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I all reality, this was a shortened OFFICIAL season, so...No asterisks is needed. Although, some teams (my red sox comes to mind) seemed like they could care less if the won or lost this year trying catch a 1st round pick. Also, if they let Cora back as Manager, I will be rooting for the Yankees that I despise. I don't like cheaters.
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Flags fly forever & the players left their families to play this out, so who cares what a bunch of non athletic idiots say at home. Whoever wins this W deserved it 100%
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No asterisks for this championship
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They story tood about the winner will be differnt but that goes for any one who wins regardless if its 1919 or 1993 or 2017 or 2020 every year is differnt and things happen that dont the next . I personally dont see this title being any less worth while then others in the past and I'll be honest my view on that changed after the first 10 games.
If anything I think this title means alot more as the world stop and no one knew if we would even see a champion crowned to get to this point and to be days away from that is something to behold and celebrated.
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@ThaGhettoBlasta said in Does 2020 World Series winner get the dreaded asterisk?:
I all reality, this was a shortened OFFICIAL season, so...No asterisks is needed. Although, some teams (my red sox comes to mind) seemed like they could care less if the won or lost this year trying catch a 1st round pick. Also, if they let Cora back as Manager, I will be rooting for the Yankees that I despise. I don't like cheaters.
I saw them talking about this on MLB network. I wondered what Red Sox fans thought about it.
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@MathMan5072 said in Does 2020 World Series winner get the dreaded asterisk?:
@ThaGhettoBlasta said in Does 2020 World Series winner get the dreaded asterisk?:
I all reality, this was a shortened OFFICIAL season, so...No asterisks is needed. Although, some teams (my red sox comes to mind) seemed like they could care less if the won or lost this year trying catch a 1st round pick. Also, if they let Cora back as Manager, I will be rooting for the Yankees that I despise. I don't like cheaters.
I saw them talking about this on MLB network. I wondered what Red Sox fans thought about it.
To be fair there is usually 1 team every year that is trying to lose more then they are trying to win.
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@MathMan5072 said in Does 2020 World Series winner get the dreaded asterisk?:
@ThaGhettoBlasta said in Does 2020 World Series winner get the dreaded asterisk?:
I all reality, this was a shortened OFFICIAL season, so...No asterisks is needed. Although, some teams (my red sox comes to mind) seemed like they could care less if the won or lost this year trying catch a 1st round pick. Also, if they let Cora back as Manager, I will be rooting for the Yankees that I despise. I don't like cheaters.
I saw them talking about this on MLB network. I wondered what Red Sox fans thought about it.
Cora was one of the masterminds of the whole plan! If Shoeless Joe can get banned for "having knowledge" of 1919 Black Sox scandal and not accepting any money, Cora should be banned in that same sense.
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@CDNMoneyMaker93 said in Does 2020 World Series winner get the dreaded asterisk?:
@MathMan5072 said in Does 2020 World Series winner get the dreaded asterisk?:
@ThaGhettoBlasta said in Does 2020 World Series winner get the dreaded asterisk?:
I all reality, this was a shortened OFFICIAL season, so...No asterisks is needed. Although, some teams (my red sox comes to mind) seemed like they could care less if the won or lost this year trying catch a 1st round pick. Also, if they let Cora back as Manager, I will be rooting for the Yankees that I despise. I don't like cheaters.
I saw them talking about this on MLB network. I wondered what Red Sox fans thought about it.
To be fair there is usually 1 team every year that is trying to lose more then they are trying to win.
This is very true. I don't wrong them for that at all.
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No way.
The NHL and NBA bubbles worked. Their respective titles are legit. In MLB, both #1 record teams made the WS.
If my Dallas Stars won the Cup it would have been legit. Our West Champs title is legit since we beat 3 teams we shouldn't have. -
If your team won would you feel any less about the 60 game championship? I wouldn’t so I don’t think there should be asterisk next to the 2020 champs.
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Absolutely and unequivocally NOT
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