There’s clearly still plenty of bad blood about a month and a half after this year’s Fall Classic between the two eternal rivals wrapped up.

No New York Yankees fan will ever forget the fifth inning of Game 5 of the 2024 World Series. After falling behind 3-0 in the World Series and fighting back to take Game 4 against the Los Angeles Dodgers, the Yanks jumped out to a quick 5-0 lead at home in the fifth game of the series, seemingly well on their way to a trip back to Los Angeles for Game 6 and potentially even a seventh.

Then, the fifth inning happened. The defense absolutely imploded en route to five runs for the Dodgers- all of which went as unearned on the ledger for New York ace Gerrit Cole. It all started with a dropped fly ball by center fielder Aaron Judge with no outs, which has become one of the most infamous plays in New York sports history.

The Dodgers went on to win the game, clinching the series in the process. Now, the ball dropped by Judge has been auctioned off, with the winning bid surpassing a value of $43,000. The ball was put up by the team through Major League Baseball’s auction site, a move that one New York radio host thought was a rude one, to put it mildly.

Evan Roberts of WFAN radio thought that the decision to auction off the ball showed that the Dodgers are “a bunch of classless pigs,” a very interesting take on what is a fairly routine call to cash in on a memorable piece of baseball history.

It’s easy to understand why those on the Yankees’ side of things are highly frustrated by the fifth inning, one of the worst sequences of events in sports history, but it says little about the Dodgers that they view it very differently- as a momentum swing that won the team a championship.

Roberts said that he didn’t blame whoever bought the ball, but viewed the organization itself as being at fault.

He claims that with so many memorable moments from a season that included a historic MVP campaign for Shohei Ohtani, a big comeback in the NLDS against the rival San Diego Padres, and of course, a World Series win, capitalizing on the Yankees’ misfortune amounts to nothing more than “a troll” of the Bronx Bombers.

The very solid question asked by Roberts and co-host Tiki Barber, a former New York Giants star running back, is how exactly the Dodgers ended up with the ball.

Batted balls are generally taken out of play, so the ball dropped by Judge would likely have gone straight to a Yankees ball boy.

Perhaps, as the two noted, there’s some sort of system in place through which the ball goes into the possession of the team that benefitted from the moment, but regardless, Roberts is quite sure that the Dodgers shouldn’t have done what they did upon receiving it.