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Chance are you’re like me and you don’t have a dog in the fight in the 2020 World Series. My team (the Red Sox) was absolutely embarrassingly bad this year (and was stupid enough to send free taco hero Mookie Betts to Los Angeles). Maybe your team was really bad, too. Or maybe your team made it to the 43-team postseason only to bow out in depressing fashion.

So why should you watch this World Series and who should you root for? Well, I think the easy answer is a dude by the name of Clayton Kershaw, the future Hall of Fame pitcher who has had some bad luck in the playoffs before but is actually one heck of a postseason pitcher.

Kershaw was on the bump for Game 1 Tuesday night and he was his normal dominant self. He gave up two hits and one run in six innings of work.

He struck out eight batters to become just the second pitcher in history to have 200 strike outs in the postseason.

Rays batters swung and missed on 19 of their 38 swings against Kershaw, which is a wild stat and is the first time Kershaw has had hitters whiff on 50 percent of their swings against him.

He also finally got some run support in a playoff game and was able to call it a night with his team ahead 8-1, which must have felt pretty darn good. The Dodgers went on to win the game 8-3 and are now three wins away from a title.

Oh, and it was his 12th postseason win, which puts him in a tie for fifth all-time with Roger Clemens.

Kershaw has long been one of the best pitchers in the baseball. He’s also been on the wrong end of some tough performances in the playoffs that led to lots of jokes and memes and narratives that aren’t actually true.

Now he’s back in the World Series, looking to win a ring that will shut everyone up and leave no doubt about his legacy.

Kershaw, who’s widely known for being a great human being, has been a great pitcher in this postseason, too. He’s 3-1 in the playoffs and now has a 2.88 ERA, which is pretty darn good.

The Dodgers seem poised to win their first World Series since 1988 and if they do, nobody will be celebrating harder than Kershaw.

And that’s something that is easy to root for.

Quick hits: Aikman responds to flyover comments… How to fix the Ravens… Tua a good move for Dolphins… And more.

– Troy Aikman had a message for anyone who thought he was disrpecting the military during that hot-mic moment about flyovers.

– Steven Ruiz looks at how the Ravens’ offense is a bit broken and how it can be fixed.

– Henry McKenna explains why the Dolphins turning to Tua Tagovailoa as their starting QB is the smart move.

– Charles Curtis had some fun and tried to predict who will win the awful NFC East. Man, the winner is going to have an awful record.

– Here are the playoff chances for all 32 NFL teams heading into Week 7.