"Why are they (and their rings) irrelevant just because we passed a round number in an arbitrary counting system? If we are going to do this by the rules of reason, let's try to keep it all rational. Right?"
I hear you Ww. But is it then not equally unfair to go back to the beginning of baseball history for a ring count when many of the current teams weren't even in existence yet? For example, after Arizona won last year, a favorite comeback of arrogant Yankee fans was "well we got 26 rings, you only got one" even though Arizona has only existed for less than a decade. Therefore in my book, the current championship ring is all that matters; everything else is just ancient history, and that opinion is neither the product of an arbitrary counting system nor an inventive child.
I hear you Ww. But is it then not equally unfair to go back to the beginning of baseball history for a ring count when many of the current teams weren't even in existence yet? For example, after Arizona won last year, a favorite comeback of arrogant Yankee fans was "well we got 26 rings, you only got one" even though Arizona has only existed for less than a decade. Therefore in my book, the current championship ring is all that matters; everything else is just ancient history, and that opinion is neither the product of an arbitrary counting system nor an inventive child.