The MLB season has a truly nasty schedule, including the postseason. And this year, it was leveled up to a whole new dimension, where the defending champions, the Los Angeles Dodgers and Toronto Blue Jays, played seven games in just nine days—that included an 18-inning marathon in Game 3, and who can ignore the 11-inning thriller in Game 7, the grand finale. So, the environment from that amazing series still lingers, even several weeks after the series ended. While the World Series is one of the most popular sports in the USA, former NFL star Jason Kelce doesn’t seem to think so, and that forced MLB legend A-Rod to chime in.

While speaking on his New Heights podcast, Jason Kelce questioned why Americans should get excited about a Canadian Baseball team and another team that spends the most money in the league playing against each other in the World Series. He went on to say that the sport is bad, as the result was very predictable. “That’s why baseball s–ks… You just buy World Series championships. It’s the dumbest thing in the world,” Jason said.

And now, MLB legend Alex Rodriguez joined the chat, giving his response in a Sports Illustrated interview. He feels the 2025 World Series Championship was the greatest of this kind. “In my lifetime, I’ve never seen a better one,” Rodriguez said.  “It had all the elements of just the juiciest, most delicious World Series.” But why so? A-Rod explained, “It had the three S’s, right? It had superstars, it had strategy, and it had incredible storylines.” And then came the perfect “Game of Thrones” theory.

A-Rod explained the Super Bowl is a “one-off” event, and it is like a “Tom Cruise movie” that everyone watches. But he finds a seven-game series more rare and exciting.

“We’ve only had two prior to this one in the last eight years is so it’s like a mini docu-series, and there are seven episodes, and just like Game of Thrones, if you watch all six now, you’re invested. You’re hooked. You’re hooked on the characters, the storylines, the strategy. Um, and then you must watch game seven. So, it was just awesome. I’m so proud of the game.”

And here we must mention that Travis Kelce tried to reason with his brother and noted an “unexpected player” actually won the final game. But Jason’s rant felt personal, considering the Dodgers eliminated Kevin’s hometown Phillies in the NLDS Game 4. But still, A-Rod’s “Game of Thrones” analogy is a perfect defense that argues Jason Kelce just missed the “plot” and “character” setup.

So, what was the plot?

A-Rod’s “juicy” label was not an exaggeration. Toronto stunned the highly favored Dodgers in Game 1 in a shocking 11-4 rout, where we witnessed the first-ever pinch-hit grand slam in World Series history from the Blue Jays rookie Addison Barger. Then we have seen one of the greatest comebacks from the Dodgers, only because of Yoshinobu Yamamoto’s complete game mastery that tied the series. Then the game moved to Los Angeles for Game 3, which became an 18-inning marathon, one of the longest ever in World Series history.

The Blue Jays once again stormed back after that marathon loss and won two straight games in Los Angeles to clinch the series lead 3-2 and forced the final games to home. The heavily favored Dodgers faced elimination in Toronto and needed a hero in Game 6. Starter Yoshinobu Yamamoto just delivered that role once again and saved their season, and once again tied the series, which forces Game 7.

Then comes the winner-take-all Game 7 that destroys Kelce’s predetermined claim.

The Dodgers started their $700 million superstar, Shohei Ohtani, and Ohtani struggled badly on short rest. Bo Bichette crushed a 442-foot three-run home run in the third that sent Ohtani out of the mound just 2 1/3 innings, and the Dodgers trailed 3-0 and later 4-2. This is where Kelce’s buyable theory failed. The Dodgers were down to their final outs in the 9th inning when Miguel Rojas hit a solo homer that tied the game and forced the game to extra innings, where the Dodgers eventually won after a Will Smith homer and again Yamamoto’s masterful performance to close the game perfectly.

So, which side are you? Do you agree with A-Rod or Jason Kelce?