The masses were asked to predict the success of the 2025 Dodgers and a clear theme emerged.
As I can attest, predictions are hard. When you’re right, you look like a genius. When you’re wrong, you have to cook a duck.
Earlier this week Dodgers fans were asked how this year’s version of the team would do. The answers, courtesy of Fan Duel, were unsurprising.
Considering that the poll’s missing two percent must be split between third place, fourth place, and last place in some order, the truly interesting question arises with those who voted second place.
Over the past two off-seasons, the Dodgers have constructed a roster rivaling the classic combiner robot Voltron, which threatens to dwarf the league in Dodger blue and the lamentations of the unbelievers…and 2 percent of the respondents thought “nah, someone else is just built different.”
The follow up question of how many games that the 2025 Dodgers would win produced an even more interesting result.
93 percent of the respondents thought the Dodgers will win at least 100 games in 2025. A 52% majority have the Dodgers winning in excess of 105 games, which shows all of my prior warnings to not tempt fate likely fell on deaf ears.
Regardless, those results are not interesting.
One percent of the respondents have the 2025 Dodgers winning 80 to 89 games. These lot are likely trolls, geniuses, or fools. None of which are mutually exclusive.
Just how much misfortune is this lot anticipating? Hopefully nothing involving any nuclear facility or gigantism.
whether you agree or disagree with the results of this survey, I can think we can all agree that arguing about British Prime Ministers in bars is a terrible idea.
At least, the New York Yankees changed their facial hair rule after nearly 50 years.