Look, I'm certainly not the type to discourage guarantees. Sports would unquestionably be less fun if athletes stopped emotionally making empty promises without regard for the asinine amount of circumstances that have to go their way for their team to win a title. So, in that sense, I'm glad that Kenley Jansen gave us an answer that is statistically a hell of a lot more likely to end up being mockable than it is prophetical. Still, I think I speak for all Dodgers fans in saying that this is just....too soon. Like, let one of the most disappointing losses that a team and its fanbase can possible endure breathe for a bit before telling those in mourning that it's a sign of better things to come. This is like showing up to a funeral and telling the widow that "with death comes new life". It's technically not incorrect, but the timing of it sure is. No one wants to hear that there is potentially a breed with a longer life span available for adoption while their dog is getting put to sleep, so they probably don't want to hear their closer talk about a hypothetical World Series immediately after they failed to close an actual World Series. The Los Angeles Dodgers don't stand to withstand a fall from grace, so there is no reason to roll out a metaphorical safety net for their hurt feelings. So, being that it would be a full year away from coming to fruition, I am unfortunately going to have to discount the legitimacy of guarantee. If for no other reason, then because the people whose minds it was meant to ease were too busy whiskeying away their current sorrows to care about a false promise of the future.
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