The Los Angeles Dodgers are baseball's favorite villain – the team that's "ruining" the game with their reckless overspending. They know it. They embrace it. In fact, they want the rest of the league to get on their level.
Speaking to the media ahead of NLCS Game 4, Dodgers manager Dave Roberts turned a routine compliment into a league-wide statement – one that challenges the sport’s financial inequality and calls out the owners who treat baseball like an investment portfolio instead of a competition.
“Our ownership puts it (revenue) back into players, a big chunk of it," Roberts said (via Bill Shaikin of the Los Angeles Times).