The World Series is over. No team has come back from a 3-0 deficit to win a World Series. Let’s take stock. Here are the teams of the various decades, based upon number of titles won:

1900s: Chicago Cubs (2)
1910s: Boston Red Sox (4)
1920s: New York Yankees (3)
1930s: New York Yankees (5)
1940s: New York Yankees (4)
1950s: New York Yankees (6)
1960s: St Louis Cardinals, Los Angeles Dodgers, New York Yankees (2)
1970s: Oakland Athletics (3)
1980s: Los Angeles Dodgers (2)
1990s: New York Yankees (3)
2000s: Boston Red Sox (2)

The decade isn’t over yet, but Boston is leading. The Yankees haven’t won a World Series since 2000, despite outspending every other team by an obscene amount. It’s a great time to be a Yankee hater.

Addendum: I became a baseball fan in 1967, when I was 10 years old. The first World Series I watched was in 1967. This year’s Series is therefore my 40th. The Yankees have won only six of them (in 1977, 1978, 1996, 1998, 1999, and 2000). My beloved Detroit Tigers have won two (in 1968 and 1984). The Yankees are not getting much bang for their buck.