These really irked me in a couple of different ways. The way 2017 team members like Altuve, Bregman, Springer etc. are treated by other players around the league, the overwhelming majority seem to have move passed what happened.

Other players like Steven Souza have publicly praised the Astros for not bringing down the whole league and exposing every other team that had similar systems. Of course good stories are only good if they have a bad guy, so the Astros take the fall and (for the most part, rightfully so), the bad guy role in the narrative.

If Kershaw is going to be mad, why doesn't he bring up how overall badly the Dodgers played? The team batted .205 for the series -- outside of Joc Pedersen no one on the offense consistently showed up. They got mad about actually tipping pitches and the Astros taking advantage of it, rather than doing it the other way.

In the seven years since that series, all the Dodgers have done is choked. They put together super teams and when the dust clears, they are no where to be found. They have been on one of the most magical regular-season runs in baseball history -- four 100-win seasons and been bounced in the first round three times.

If you want to go back further, they have 10 first-place finishes in the last 11 years... that 11th year, they finished one game behind an insane 107-win Giants team.

All they have to show for it? One World Series championship in a season that no one outside of Los Angeles counts or remembers. Kershaw seems like the kind of guy to not throw his teammates and organization under the bus, so of course it's easy to point things back to the bad guy. If he and anyone else in that dugout were being honest, they'd talk about their inability to finish the job.

Since then? The ALCS has become an Astros invitational series.... baseball championships come through Houston. This team is f'in dominant. It shows it can and will win when it counts. It has been built to win and built to withstand.

If the Dodgers don't like it, they certainly have done nothing to prove they were better. Let them be mad. Dodgers fell short and kept falling short. Baseball cried and kept crying. Astros won and kept winning. Flags fly forever and that 2017 flag will always say World Series Champions.

**EDIT -- I am referring to his pregame comments, not the Apple TV interview. I have not seen the interview as I was at the game watching Breggy Bombs, Framber Day, Jon Homerton batflips, Joey cook and Dodger tears.