Diamondbacks-Rangers is the MLB World Series that no one wanted and isn’t worth your precious TV time

This is the World Series that no one wanted.

Not Major League Baseball.

Not commissioner Rob Manfred, who continues to drag down a once proud game.

Not baseball fans across the globe, who are going to have a very hard time forcing themselves to tune in to what already feels like one of the most forgettable World Series in MLB history.

Are newly chest-puffing Texas Rangers fans super eager for Game 1?

Sure.

The MLB club based in Arlington, Texas has never won a World Series, despite officially dating back to 1961.

When the Rangers did make the Fall Classic in 2010 and ’11, pain and heartbreak followed.

The Arizona Diamondbacks only date back to 1998, yet they won it all in 2001 with a Game 7 shocker versus the New York Yankees that stunned America.

But, really, who’s a hardcore, old-school DBacks fan?

Can you even name their current manager?

Or anyone in Arizona’s limited baseball history not named Randy Johnson, Curt Schilling, Luis Gonzalez or Bob Brenly?

This obviously isn’t a knock on the Rangers’ Adolis García, who’s become one of the best stories in the modern game and just humbled the heck out of the can’t-win-at-home Houston Astros.

This has nothing to do specifically with Ketel Marte, Corbin Carroll or Zac Gallen, who have turned Arizona from an 84-win afterthought into a fun and cool club that humiliated the Los Angeles Dodgers in the National League Division Series and just reminded Bryce Harper that the Phillies’ supposed homefield advantage has been seriously overrated in back-to-back postseasons.

This is all about MLB in 2023, with its over expanded and watered-down playoffs, and a final Fall Classic pairing that won’t hold a candle to NFL Sunday, college football Saturday or the next Formula One race.

There were three 100-plus win teams in MLB this season.

None made the World Series.

Tampa Bay’s 99 victories were also worthless in October.

The same for the high-priced New York Mets, New York Yankees and San Diego Padres, who burned crazy cash and highly frustrated fanbases all season.

Arizona ranked in the bottom third of the league in team payroll, while Texas couldn’t win its division this year and spent 2021-22 as one of the worst teams in the sport.

Credit to the Rangers for their quick turnaround and AL dominance in 2023.

They were also smart enough to hire fix-everything skipper Bruce Bochy, who’s become synonymous with the Fall Classic.

A tip of the cap to the Diamondbacks for getting hot at the last minute and reminding the world that Philly talks a ton of smack but rarely backs it up.

But Arizona vs Texas in the World Series?

Zzzzzz.

Bryce Harper and the hard partying Phillies would have been fun to watch again.

Everyone either absolutely loves or hates the Astros, making them perfect to yell at on TV.

No one in MLB was storyboarding this boring Arizona-Texas scenario during sunny spring training, and that’s a bad thing for baseball’s standing in the ever-changing sports hierarchy.

In the end, this is baseball’s fault and yet again falls at Manfred’s feet.

By opening up the playoffs to multiple wild cards in both leagues and turning the initial round into a three-game series, it’s no wonder that the the Atlanta Braves and Baltimore Orioles were left out in the end.

Then there’s the fact that a sport that watered down its postseason for a pure moneygrab will now face a World Series without the Boston Red Sox, Chicago Cubs, Dodgers, Yankees or Mets.

You know … recognizable teams that fans buy merchandise to support and make baseball a ton of extra money.

This isn’t the future of MLB or a wonderful one-year anomaly.

This is already a bore and the weakest matchup in decades.

Baseball has the longest and most grueling regular season in pro sports, yet now almost half the sport makes the postseason.

After 162 games and far too many playoff teams, baseball fans are now being asked to tune in to a late October “battle” between the Rangers and Diamondbacks.

Who?

Skip that channel and move on with your busy life.

It’s time to check in on Patrick Mahomes, Travis Kelce and Taylor Swift again, and see how much the thrilling Kansas City Chiefs are winning by.