Some of the greatest stories ever told have been about opposites and how they balance each other out. You may refer to this as “the Yin and the Yang” or dualism. All things in nature seem to have duality, a strange phenomenon indeed, but one that also helps us paint the broader picture of understanding. The light has the dark. Good has evil. And the Astros have the Dodgers.
Dualism does not necessarily always mean good versus evil. On the contrary, the opposites can also be very similar. The Germans have a word for this and it is called a “doppelganger.” The Dodgers are, from every indication, the Astros’ doppelganger. A team so different but also a mirror image at the same time. This is why two games in and this series already seems like it is destined to be legendary. The 2017 World Series is the Even Steven World Series.
If you look up and down the rosters of these teams you will find players who seem like they are one of a kind, only to look at the other team’s roster and find a player that seemingly came from the Upside Down world as a the natural opposite to that player. Dallas Keuchel is known as the pitcher with a beard, but over on the Dodgers side they have a leader named Justin Turner who also possesses a big beard but also with long Viking hair and he is a long ball hitting infielder as opposed to a Cy Young winning lefty. Yin and Yang indeed!
The Dodgers have a Cuban sensation named Yasiel Puig who is loud and demonstrative but also one of the most dangerous guys in the lineup. Since everything is bound to the mutual whole however, Puig is not without his opposite. Yuli Gurriel is also a Cuban sensation who does not run around kissing his teammates and refrains from polarizing comments or action, but is also extremely dangerous possessing all 5 tools just the same as Puig.
Even in an infinite multiverse, there are ways of explaining things because there are rules. The duality of man is inescapable. That is why the Astros and Dodgers are meeting the World Series. You may call it fate or hard work, but in Dualism the answer you will find is that this World Series is occurring in nature because natural law dictated that it was bound to happen.
While the Astros may have “tanked” for a few years to get to this point, they are here. Judging the means to this sort of end is on each individual. If you have something against how the Astros arrived here then that is according to your own beliefs. The fact is it worked and they got to the World Series. In dualism, disasters turn out to be blessings.
The same can be said for Dodgers but on the opposite end of the spectrum. The Dodgers had a problem with spending money on players as they tried to desperately buy their way into the World Series. It was a sickness that in the end led them to health. They are in the World Series despite what you may think of their Capitalistic tactics.
It has taken a while for the MLB’s Yin and Yang to come together but we are finally here and it is giving us a World Series for the ages. For nearly 30 years in Los Angeles and 55 years in Houston it was two steps forward then two steps back. Now they both come together for the Even Steven World Series, because opposites attract.
– Alan Michael