Friday, July 17, 2020

Newsletter Excerpt, July 17, 2020 -- "What We've Lost, and the Dodgers"

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 "We’ll never know how good the Dodgers could have been, of course. Their depth won’t be tested over 60 games the way it would have been over 162, their edge over the field dulled by a shortened season. Even if they go 42-18 or something, it will never feel the way a 110-win season would feel."