The Los Angeles Dodgers and Toronto Blue Jays are facing off in the World Series as LA looks to become baseball’s first back-to-back champions in a quarter-century, and the Blue Jays will try to win their first Fall Classic since 1993.

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The narratives have started to run rampant leading up to the conclusion of the MLB season, and especially with the Dodgers’ league-leading payroll and murmurs of an MLB lockout in 2027, one that has begun gaining traction, is that the Dodgers are Goliath and the Blue Jays are David.

Blue Jays manager John Schneider responded to the narrative and shed some more light on the overall strengths and weaknesses of both powerhouses.

“Sure. Two best teams left standing. Again, built differently, have different strengths,” Schneider said. “There’s a reason we are here and there’s a reason they’re there. I think the one thing we cannot do is look over there and say that is Goliath. That is a beatable baseball team that has its flaws, and that has its really, really good strengths. How we expose each of them will determine who wins the series. And I got all the confidence in the world in my guys.”

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Dodgers manager Dave Roberts also responded to the narrative when asked if he saw his team as Goliath, but was quick to correct which role he is assuming.

“Or David,” Roberts said. “Yeah, you know what? We got really good players, they got really good players. So the great thing about baseball is anything can happen. It’s going to be a great series. These guys are on a high right now, so we’re expecting a battle. So we certainly don’t see it that way.”

The momentum in question might be how the Blue Jays came back from a 3-2 deficit to defeat the Mariners, capped by a George Springer three-run shot during the seventh inning of Game 7 to clinch the pennant.

Although the Dodgers are coming off a dominant sweep over the Milwaukee Brewers, history appears to be on the Blue Jays’ side. In all five World Series that featured one team sweeping in the League Championship Series and the other team going seven games, each winner has been the team that went seven in the LCS.

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