One of the most overused — and inaccurate — assertions made by athletes in junctures of jubilation is, “Nobody believed in us!”
That’s just not true. These players have friends and parents and agents and accountants who believe in them implicitly. And in baseball, especially — a sport that has not had a repeat champion in 23 years and is about to see a Wild Card club win the World Series for the eighth time since 1997 — any team that advances to the dance has a legit chance of walking away with its biggest prize.
World Series Game 1, presented by Capital One: Friday, 8 p.m. ET/5 MST on FOX (Pregame 7 ET)
But the members of the 2023 Arizona Diamondbacks, having just dispatched the reigning National League champion Phillies in Game 7 of the NL Championship Series to punch their franchise’s first ticket to the World Series since 2001, are hereby permitted to go into their Fall Classic date with the Rangers and crow all they want about having been overlooked, underappreciated, underrated, underestimated, spurned, snubbed, ignored, deserted and just generally dissed.
