The culmination of the 2025 Major League Baseball season is here, with the Los Angeles Dodgers taking on the Toronto Blue Jays for this year’s World Series title.
Of course, the Detroit Tigers were a part
of the postseason action, but they faltered in the ALDS against the Seattle Mariners in a white-knuckle five-game series. Since then, the Dodgers and Jays have prevailed over their respective opponents to reach the grandest stage in the sport of baseball.
Maybe of us Tigers fans have already checked out on the season, the True Baseball Fans™ continue to follow the action on the clay diamond to its final conclusion. Here at Bless You Boys, we have a bit of a mix of those two categories, and standing on the threshold of the 2025 World Series, several of us offered our takes.
Check out what we had to offer below.
Peter Kwasiniak: The Dodgers win and we all die a little more inside.
And then we eat Arby’s.
Adam Dubbin: Counterpoint — The Dodgers win and all the sour grape haters die inside.
Cam Kaiser: Dodgers in 5. Toronto gets a blowout win in game 2 to give everyone hope, then goes quietly in the next three games.
Ohtani is an MVP because baseball is easy for him, while hard for every other human being.
Ashley MacLennan: Jays in 6! Let’s go Canada!
Canon_At_The_Hot_Corner: Blue Jays? More like Boo Jays. Dodgers in 5, Freddie Freeman MVP.
Sorry Ashley.
MacLennan: I can’t cheer for the Dodgers, man.
David Rosenberg: The Dodgers win again and convince Pizza Boy Chris Ilitch that spending stupid amounts of money on good players is the only way to win in the Big 2025.
Also, Ohtani needs his rings and MVPs.
Frisbee Pilot: I’ve seen this word used to describe the Dodgers: inevitable. And I don’t disagree. Sorry, fellow Torontonians, it ain’t gonna happen this year.
The Ohtanis in five.
Patrick O’Kennedy: The Dodgers’ rotation is clicking on all cylinders, and just at the right time. The Jays can match up offensively, and both bullpens could be vulnerable in middle relief, but the way that LA cruised through the Brewers was impressive.
Dodgers in six.
Brandon Day: My heart says Blue Jays, and it’s been cool watching Vladdy come into his own over the last year or two as a leader. Would enjoy seeing them win it, and Max snatching another ring before his career ends too. However, they just don’t have the pitching, even with Trey Yesavage added to the mix.
The difference between offenses isn’t that great, and the Blue Jays are the better defensive club, which may play a crucial role along the way. But the Dodgers can just run Snell, Glasnow, Ohtani, Yamamoto, and Sasaki at you with a pretty good bullpen to back them up. Just too much to overcome, I expect.
Dubbin: On a serious note, I get the hate that the Dodgers get for having a seemingly infinite bank account to work with. But this isn’t anything new: we saw the same with the Yankees in years past, and let’s be honest as Tigers fans — we’ve experienced that luxury before as well.
After Detroit was eliminated, I was hoping the Brewers would make it to the final series, but alas. Los Angeles has too much talent and is too deep to falter now. Dodgers in six.
Zane Harding: Somebody characterized this World Series as Kendrick v Drake pt. 2.
Dodgers in 4
Mr. Sunshine: I’m rooting for Toronto because they have the Hockey Hall of Fame there.
That’s it.
Frisbee Pilot: I agree with Brandon — that Dodgers pitching staff will just smother you.
Day: If there’s one shred of hope I can give to Blue Jays fans, it’s that since the League Championship series expanded to seven games in 1985, there have been four times where one team in a World Series swept their LCS series, while the other club went to Game 7 and had to take a winner-take-all game to reach the World Series. In each case, the team that went to Game 7 has always beaten the team that swept their way into the Series. Of course, four examples is a very small sample, but of the 10 LCS sweeps since 1985, only three of those teams went on to take the World Series. So no matter how talented the Dodgers roster is, there’s no reason to expect them to just truck the Blue Jays. It should be a hard fought series, and either team could win. It’s baseball. Anyway, best of luck, Jays!
So that is what we think about the 2025 World Series. How do you all feel about this year’s culmination to the 2025 campaign? Express yourself in the comments section below — or if you are feeling frisky, open a discussion in the Feed.
