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The World Series participants are now official.

The Dodgers, of course, will be the National League representative, as we knew.

And last night in Toronto,

the Blue Jays defeated the Mariners by some score or other in game seven. And they and Isaiah

Kiner Folefa will be heading to the World Series.

And, man, it almost couldn't be better.

It almost couldn't be better.

Because what you have is the team with the highest payroll taking on the team with the fifth highest payroll.

You have the team that's based in the United States' second largest market against Canada's largest market.

And if you picked up Toronto and plopped it into America, it would be the sixth largest market.

Glorious, I say. Just glorious.

According to my friend, Mike DeCorsi of Sporting News, this is now the fifth straight year in which no team outside Major League Baseball's top 10 markets will be in the World Series.

In the past 10 series, 10 of them now, three of the 20 teams, three of them, that's it.

15% were from outside that top 10.

Respective payrolls, the Dodgers, depending on what you do with their deferred money,

are either at 350 or 400 or who knows what it is, some astronomical figure.

The Blue Jays are at 280.

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