“Just Wait’ll Next Year.”
The annual mantra of the Brooklyn Dodgers. A perennial exercise in futility. Until 1955, when next year finally arrived, and the Dodgers beat the New York Yankees in seven games in the World Series. It was their only championship while playing in Brooklyn’s Ebbets Field.
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After “earning it” in 2017 with their own first ever World Championship, the Astros went into 2018 promising to “Never Settle.” But settle they did, losing to the Boston Red Sox in five games in the 2018 ALCS.
“Just wait’ll next year.