When conducting a postmortem on a failed ending to a season, chastened sports executives ordinarily tell fans exactly what they want to hear.
During a news conference Thursday in the wake of a second consecutive World Series disappointment, the Dodgers’ top baseball executives smiled and said all the not-quite-right things.
You wanted them to acknowledge that the analytics-fueled philosophy that works so well during a six-month regular season may need tweaking during a short series against an elite team?
“So it works for regular season, works for [division series], works for the [championship series], but then in the World Series, it’s a failure?