Is this a mickey mouse ring? I mean we never actually got to see the true destined matchup to cap off an almost perfect MLB season, due to a fluke in the NLCS. By all rights the Phillies should have represented the National League in the World Series. With a fraudulent team in their place, is the integrity of competition compromised? A team like the Phillies is a team of destiny, a team that belongs on baseball’s biggest stage in the fall classic. Every baseball fan that watched the NLCS knows games 6 and 7 were illegitimate, and many have called for the MLB to investigate for possible scandals. Unfortunately the stolen NLCS sort of invalidates the achievement of the Rangers. It’s a shame that history will always attach an asterisk alongside the 2023 Texas Rangers, as no such cupcake matchup is worthy of the honor of calling oneself champion. The only real solution here is to have a final 7 game series between the Rangers and Phillies, and if the Rangers win that, they can call themselves true champions. But not before.