2024 Yankees infielder says what all fans thought about Dodgers after World Series.
The New York Yankees — and this is truly crazy to admit — lost the World Series to the Los Angeles Dodgers last October. It did not go well. They did not get blown out, losing in aggregate by just a single run, but they did suffer two of the most heartbreaking single-game defeats in recent World Series history.
They were one out away from victory in Game 1, which ended with Nestor Cortes Jr. slumped on the mound, blinking. They blew a 5-0 mid-game lead in Game 5, the clincher, when Gerrit Cole forgot to cover first base after Aaron Judge’s doink, as their momentum swiftly unraveled. It was pure, unmitigated pain.
But it was a fairly tight series between the class of each league. The National League, all year long, was more competitive than the American. Fittingly, they came out on top when the two sides locked horns with a trophy on the line. The Dodgers, nearly left dead and buried down two games to one in San Diego in the NLDS, roared back. They were victorious. They are allowed, in perpetuity, to “talk their sh-t.”
Didn’t it … (oh, boy, I can feel their eyes staring at me now) … feel … a little excessive and demeaning, though? Again, razor-thin series margin. Again, two gut-wrenching games. Again, the Dodgers entered the series as top-tier playoff gaggers, wilting spectacularly in both 2023 and 2022. You’d think they might’ve been a little more sympathetic — save for Mookie Betts, who had a golden opportunity to talk smack at the Yankee lunatics who grabbed his wrist and twisted in the field of play.
Former 2024 Yankees backup infielder Jon Berti, who recently signed with the Cubs, appeared to echo this sentiment on Foul Territory this week. Berti missed the World Series, forced to watch the destruction from the sidelines, and thought the Dodgers’ post-victory haughty media glee tour was a little much.
Jon Berti says the Dodgers post-World Series trash talk was disrespectful to the point where it felt like the Yankees didn’t belong there. pic.twitter.com/HvWKxvOlui.
— Foul Territory (@FoulTerritoryTV) February 5, 2025
Yankees infielder (and current Cub) Jon Berti thinks Dodgers were disrespectful after World Series
Now, we know what all Dodgers fans are saying right now reading this because we’ve heard them all offseason: “Oh my God, JON BERTI hates us? Who CARES?! We won, taste it!” Apparently, Joe Kelly and his zero postseason innings talkin’ sh-t was good, ol’ fashioned baseball the way it oughtta be, but Berti, injured just before the World Series, is unqualified to respond. Keep pretending Kelly was anything but a tremendous cornball last fall!
The reality is that the Dodgers are going to have their way until someone does something about it on the field. Maybe it’ll be Berti’s Cubs or Juan Soto’s Mets. Maybe the Yankees will rise through the American League again after a reemphasis on pitching and defense, and can avenge last October.
But just because the Dodgers can doesn’t mean that they should. The Yankees hadn’t lost a World Series in the previous 21 years, so maybe I’m a little out of touch, but I don’t remember the winning team back then leaking that they “loved” the matchup because of sloppy baserunning, or claiming they knew the Yankees would botch balls in play and “sh*t down their leg” from the dugout.
And, again, who was loudest in the series’ aftermath? Kelly, on the shelf with a season-ending injury and non-participatory, and Chris Taylor, armed with zero World Series hits in a single plate appearance. LA can do whatever they want. So can Berti. Just know that if the Yankees had won with this little class, and Berti, injured for the series, had been the one vocalizing these sentiments, they’d be getting roasted far louder than the Dodgers entering 2025.
