Are the Dodgers Too Heavily Favored in the NL Pennant Odds?

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00:00When you look at the National League odds right now and see the Dodgers as such a short favorite

00:05to win a second consecutive pennant but with the Mets there at 5-1 the Phils plus 550 we'll talk

00:11about the other teams deeper down this list in just a matter of moments so you know do you take

00:16anything away big picture wise significance wise from the Dodgers performance against the Yankees

00:22in a World Series rematch or the Dodgers playing the Amazons this week in the second NLCS rematch

00:28of the year well I told you last week when you asked me about the Yankees Dodgers series that

00:33I wasn't excited about it at all and the Yankees got mollywhopped I mean sure they salvaged the final

00:38game of the series but they were outscored 26 to 7 in the first two games it was embarrassing for

00:44the Yankees they got outclassed by the Dodgers on several fronts in that three game series again

00:49nice to salvage the final game but it didn't erase what the gap between the Yankees and Dodgers is

00:55strange part about that Ben is that the first two games Aaron Judge went five for nine with three

00:59home runs and they were outscored 26 to 7 final game he goes 0 for 4 and the Yankees win at 7 to 5

01:05or whatever it was 7 to 2 I can't remember the final score regardless that's you know as John

01:09Stilling says well you know Susan that's just baseball anyway um I'm not uh I'm not impressed

01:15with the Yankees at this point in time um but I also do not believe the Dodgers gap is as big as

01:21the odds makers are making it you bring back up those odds for the National League pennant you've

01:26got to be joking there's not nearly a four dollar three three dollar and fifty cent difference between

01:30the Mets and the Dodgers uh when these two teams get on the field right like that's just not it's not

01:35reality so I think the Dodgers are overpriced and I don't think you can bet them at this point in time

01:41um and look I I'll keep going back to this and I know it sounds crazy and I did it last year and was wrong

01:47in fact they did two years ago and was wrong I'd still throw a check on the Padres to win the NOS

01:52because they're going to hang around and that's the only way the Dodgers really get tripped up

01:55um is by by having something happen where they don't win the division um you can't trust the

02:01Padres to get out of the National League but if they hang around all year long they could make

02:05something competitive in September

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