Will the Dodgers win 130 games? Is there really a pennant race? Is the Singularity upon us?

In case you've been lollygagging in the Strait of Vermouth over the last month, you may have missed the Dodgers Singularity, which is transpiring across MLB.

After four years of a systematic avalanche of spending - annual payrolls that created the most lopsided advantages in the history of sports - the Los Angeles Dodgers have become baseball's one true story. 

They have won 15 of their first 19 and - for now, anyway - are enroute to a 127-win season. This will not beat the Cincinnati Red Stockings of 1869, who went 67-0. (Shout out to Harry Wright, the great 2B and prelude to Altuve - all 5'9" of him.) And let's not forget the 1906 Chicago Cubs, who won 116 games out of 152, in the "Modern Era," (though they lost the World Series to the dreaded White Sox.)

Today's Dodgers - with a $416 million, 40-man roster payroll - will outspend the Yankees this year by $78 million. They will outdo the Tampa Rays - currently atop the AL East - by $307 million. 

When the Dodgers play Tampa, it's like Thumbellina fighting Katy Perry. 

MLB's six best teams, according to today's standings, are in the NL. Two others are tied with hateful Tampa in the AL. Eight teams have better records than the Yankees, who have struggled through the cupcake section of their 2026 schedule. 

This year, the Dodgers will outspend the Mets - second in all of MLB - by $37 million. 

Of course, throughout baseball history, the joke was always on the rich codgers with glass tubes for genitals: They spend outlandishly, yet their erections still flitter and flop, leaving us to rejoice in the vagaries of the game. You cannot buy the championship, we say, sagely, while Boonie brings in Camilo Dotel to pitch the eighth. 

Well, the Dodgers have won 15 of 19 despite their best hitter/pitcher, the Japanese Babe Ruth, batting .265, and with Mookie Wilson still below .170. Kyle Tucker and Freddie Freeman have yet to hit their weights. Fifteen of nineteen, and the team is just warming up. You must wonder: Will this be the year when everything collapses, when money becomes money? 

The Dodgers, of course, are what the Yankees used to be, and our lost tribe has no right to whine about Hal's refusal to dive into the shallow end of a spending pool. He'd be a fool to do so. Today, the AL East looks like the Mid-America Conference in women's volleyball. All we gotta do is finish 2nd, and our wild card ticket is probably punched. 

So, let's all do join in on the obligatory "IT'S ONLY APRIL, TRA-LA-LA..." mantra and hope the Dodgers get bored, and lose a few. They need the Phillies and Mets back in the mix, to maintain the illusion of a race. It's a long season, and nothing that happens in April will seem to be on the same planet in September. 

But the Dodgers Singularity may be finally here. 

By the way, we'll see them in mid-July. Any bets on where we'll be?