2026 Championship Series: LAD-MIL; CLE-TB

Brewers & Rays though it will probably be the opposite.

Two seven game series leading to Dodgers Guards

For the first time under the 2022 expanded 12-team format, no Wild Card teams had ever made to the League Championship Series nor the World Series, as all four teams made it are top two seed division winners.

Whoever wrote this on Wikipedia doesn’t know shit lol, the NLCS last year was Brewers-Dodgers (both division winners) and ALCS was Blue Jays-Mariners (both division winners). I guess they’re leaning REALLY hard on the technicality of “top two seed division winners” even though Cleveland won their division this year with a wild card contender type record and the only reason they’re the 2 seed in this year is the ALW champs scraped in with a .500 record lol.

MORE IMPORTANTLY all these teams are bye teams, the “rust not rest” excuse needs to be dead and never heard again. (It was always shit!)

I'll root for the Brewers and Guardians, so that's who I voted for. Really hope Mis/Skubal lives up to the hype: in a long-gone fantasy world, the Brewers win 1-0 with a Chourio walk-off in the bottom of the ninth (both starters still in the game, of course).

This morning user Sharivari reminded me that he turned to me during game 3 of the CHW-CLE series, around the time Jo Adell hit that triple, and said “That’s it, they’ll come back to win this series.”

I laughed at him.

“The game’s not over yet, how can you be so sure.”
“It’s going to happen.”

And so it did. And while his lifetime supporting Spurs undoubtedly conditioned him to see disaster approaching from miles away that might be impossible for fans of normal teams, there is a pattern that repeats here too.

I remember when I was first getting into baseball and my two gurus on the subject were Tracer Hand and Mookieproof. Tracer Hand told me a formative memory for him was “the Bill Buckner groundball” of 1986:

https://i.postimg.cc/fRFWn5Jp/IMG-2150.jpg
And I focused on the impact on him as a fan, but later on I realised talking to our other Red Sox fan friend that there was a game 7. What the fuck! I thought. There were pitchers who didn’t make outs, batters who couldn’t score runs, and a whole nine innings to get it back, and Buckner was the scapegoat?

I think I have referenced the Athletic’s incredible oral history of the 2003 Chicago Cubs before on here. I had heard so much about this brilliant doomed team and their two aces. If you haven’t read it:

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/4890443/2023/10/05/chicago-cubs-2003-season-oral-history/

They do a bit about the Bartman catch of course, but the Kerry Wood quote here always stuck with me:

https://i.postimg.cc/J4ZS4qYL/IMG-2148.jpg

We know what happened next, of course.

Finally, I thought about a point Mookieproof made to me about the difference of fan mentality and player mentality, about how fans live and die with every pitch, but players are quicker to shake off losses than fans because they have to. There’s always a game tomorrow, always a plane to get on, always a new pitcher coming in. You have to be able to shake off failure, or the game will eat you alive. So for regular season losses, he said, fans probably wouldn’t like that players move on faster.

But the postseason is different. We all know this, but this one so far has really underlined the truism that you get exposed hard in the postseason.

That Red Sox-Yankees season, for instance. I never believed in their hot streak. I remembered reading Cole Hamels dismissing Cody Ross in the not-yet-lost 2010 NLCS series to the Giants.

“He’s been battling and hitting pitches that most normal people can’t hit at this time,” Hamels said. “If he can hit that through the regular season, we’ll be very impressed, but that’s what happens when guys are hot: they can hit anything.”

Show some respect to 2010 NLCS MVP Cody Ross, Cole Hamels! Thing is, he was right, just not in that situation. It was true of the Red Sox summer streak which replicated a similar hot streak that propelled them to the playoffs last year. They got huge production from a selection of fringe and quadruple A guys. The pitchers were basically unhittable. And then they got to the playoffs and the fact that they couldn’t hit anything in September came up and sent them back home, just as it did last year.

The playoffs expose because the timescale is compressed. 162 season, you can shake off a losing streak, because you know you always have time, within reason. That Red Sox team was dead and buried 14 games under .500. The Boston Globe was publishing articles saying they should make a decision to sell in June.

But most players simply can’t overcome a brutal shock like that in such a short timeline. The 86 Red Sox and 03 Cubs teams were full of veterans with cumulative decades of experience. The 2026 White Sox, as we know, are the complete opposite. Now, they never had the pitching to make a deep run, but the bats simply couldn’t overcome enough to grind something out.

The Yankees fan interference catch, similar thing. They hadn’t led once the entire series. They think they’ve tied it. The umpire overturns the call, run comes off the board. They are punctured, they lose.

And that’s why the playoffs are everything that’s great about the regular season in a brutal do or die timeline.

https://i.postimg.cc/MH929znm/branca.jpg

https://i.postimg.cc/pXdtp57b/vlad.jpg

Who is the first one?

Rooting for Brewers-Rays.

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/23/sports/baseball/ralph-branca-brooklyn-dodgers-beyond-the-pitch.html

Teams do come back from crushing post-season losses. The two that come to mind immediately are how the Reds came back to win G7 in '75 (after the Fisk HR in G6...that may not fit because it's not like anyone on the Reds made a monumental error or anything), and the Diamondbacks coming back from the two devastating Byung-Hyun Kim HR in 2001. Being able to wheel out Randy Johnson and Curt Schilling helps. Much to my surprise, Kim came back in 2002 and had a very good season--if they'd lost that series, maybe not.

i sit here with a thousand yard stare after reading that Kerry Wood quote, that series collapse is the source of so much Cub fan PTSD, mostly erased by the 2016 title, but not completely.

xp they do, but like the Red Sox ALCS comeback, they tend to be remembered cos they’re anomalous, I’d argue.

Omar, have you read the article? It’s a heartbreaker. I think of that specific quote because of the way it instantly captures the way it turned in an instant. But there’s plenty of other awful stuff in there like

The next morning, the talk was about the Cubs collapse and the so-called Billy Goat curse more than Wood starting Game 7 at home. Steve Bartman’s name started getting out in the media.

CLEMENT: I’m a sympathetic person. So, in my mind, I’m like, man, we gotta win so this guy doesn’t eat this.

Yeah, that whole story is just rough. I think ultimately Bartman was obviously not the reason for the whole thing falling apart, the Cubs were not psychologically able to close it out and that was the big part. The way the media went at that poor dude was not just irresponsible, but kind of evil.

And of course, rather than the beginning of a new successful era, it just heralded the end. Like the 2015 cubs got booted from the playoffs, but that just led to 2016. 2004 was just a disaster in comparison, Mark Prior and Kerry Wood were done and Sosa declined and they just remained disappointing for another decade.

Great post gyac. I read somewhere that in order to find a "true" series winner you need 20+ games to reach statistical significance. What is, in the regular season, just the ups and downs of the job take on a mythical status in the postseason, particularly once you're past the WC. The narrative machine goes into overdrive.

With all due respect to WSGM7 winner Will Smith.... I have no idea what Roberts is thinking batting him 3rd with this slump he's got going

Cmon Brewers

Fox has a new score bug

Great AB by Teo

Brewers have to win this game, otherwise its over

miz is gonna get chased out this inning

This dude is so cooked... Wish they would have kept him fresh for the playoffs!

"Cy Young winner" quickly turns into an opener status.

Dang it miz

Lights too bright for Miz? In a vacuum, game played in an empty stadium with no stakes you pick him over Skubal, but I think Tarik's traditional I-am-literally-a-psychopath starting pitcher temperament is what you want here.

47 pitches 1ER after 2IP against Miz. Not much more you can realistically ask for

Gets out of it

But yeah what HP said

Skubs grinning after blowing him off the plate case-in-point lol

man if only the Brewers could've made an offer for that guy

but yea I don't think Miz's issue is not enough rest here I think he's just jittery and not yet mentally ready to be the ace pitcher you bring in for playoff games vs. superteams. a couple years ago he wasn't really considered much of a prospect and had long stretches where he was totally wild, might take another year or two before he feels fully comfortable I think

With a little luck, he's doing fine. The Dodgers should be up 2- or 3-0.

I can guarantee if you asked every dodgers fan in the world, they would all in a heartbeat take a 1-0 score 70pitches in 3ip from Miz

70 pitches through 3 though, mission accomplished by LA really

xp

Not to say this game isn't still very winnable by the crew, but you know, you got your ace pitching you don't want to be down. This is smelling like NLDSgm3 Yama vs. Sale

but yea I don't think Miz's issue is not enough rest here

Mis IP
2022: 1.2 (A)
2023: 71.1 (A/AA)
2024: 97.1 (AA/AAA)
2025: 129.1 (AAA/MLB)
2026: 234.0

this is some Dusty Baker territory he's in right now... velo down + getting hit HARD, "he's a gamer", etc.

admittedly he looked good against Smith & Ohtani but those dudes are as cold as it gets.🥶

SOMEONE GET A CRASH CART OUT HERE STAT

omgggggggggggggg

terrible call

You can't also give all the calls to the Dodgers

yeah Teo got bailed out. Why is it always Teo!!!!!!!!!

Some good news

Yessir

bad challenge, battery is tilted

three double plays already (apparently, i just got in)

Only one

brewers have turned 3

/ dodgers have hit into 3

Fuck yeah

Product placement sighting (Tums)

Unbelievable

Smh

Is it just me or are there twice as many commercials in the playoffs

Three more outs

to paraphrase (mayor) kenneth 'spanky' lloyd at my high school basketball games:

D IT UP, BREW CREW

would be nice to score one here though

1

2

cmon one more

man those pitches weren't even close

Why

i would throw strikes thats just me

Phew. Did the 9th the hard way there.

YEAH

gg brewcrew

ding dong

Love it. Dodgers lost that game in the first three innings. I know Misiorowski was off, but I figured get through five (he almost did) and the Brewers must have decent middle relief if they won 103. And I still remembered Skubal melting down a couple of years ago in a G5.

closers walking bottom of the order guys is my biggest annoyance in baseball. alas I will forgive it

Megill did almost fuck it up--can't believe he brought Betts to the plate.

Brewers struck out 13 times pretty hard to win when you do that

I mean all around it was a pretty bad game for them and they still eked it out, they really needed it with their best pitcher going and Yamamoto tomorrow. who knows maybe they get to him

11 walks and 13 hits is pretty wild for a 2-1 squeaker. so much for dominant pitching!

hey at least they didn't strike out 21 times

I was watching a video of Brice Turang saying yesterday that the hardest pitcher for him to hit was Skubal. Skubal is notoriously difficult for left handed hitters to hit home runs off, I think he might be in the single digits for his career still? Sinker at the knees, left on left off Skubal to left centre. I bet you line that up a billion times in a simulation and it comes out like that one time. The place must have gone crazy.

realizing that any permutation of the world series that doesn't involve the dodgers will be a ratings nightmare for mlb

hence why they called a balk on miz for throwing out teo

it didn't matter and the Brewers won so I'm not gonna complain about it but yeah that was some bullshit

announcers went zapruder film on it trying to find the balk

i actually thought smoltz was not too bad when discussing skubal/miz, some nice insights from a former pitcher. he was clearly geeked up to be watching this matchup

I like how he called out the Brewers relievers for issuing dumb walks, lotta announcers won't do that

kind of a must win for the Brewers so they did what they needed to do

So we weren't wrong--we kept looking and looking for whatever caused that balk and couldn't see anything.

it was the tiniest of wobbles of his front leg and i would not even call it a movement towards home it was so miniscule.

How stacked does that deck need to be?

Wrong thread sorry

bruich, a stór (gyac)
Posted: 12 October 2026 at 22:06:09
Obligatory “fuck Mookie Betts” comment

Sorry about my snoring, I dozed off during that typically boring Turang AB

He’s mortal!!!

Go Brewers

What is that Andy Pages neck tattoo? Je suis what?
*googles*
https://i.postimg.cc/15bqZTJh/IMG-2200.jpg
🙄

lowlight, highlight, lowlight

Pressure is getting to the Brewers

Henderson looks jittery but he’s pitching okay

https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/dodgers-max-muncy-welcomes-ghost-234156317.html

Shout out Max Muncy, he welcomes your ghosts and ghouls. Probably one of the funniest baseball traditions, everyone staying in the haunted hotel. I don’t know Milwaukee but is that really their only option? Or is it just some obscure baseball tradition?

I DO like that faded “Dios” nestled in Contreras’s neck fat though. That’s quite sweet.

Bauer swung at Ball 4 five times in a row

12 pitches into the AB, i find the pitch comm issue here suspicious

Yamamoto over 70 pitches in the third

I was bored to death watching that AB.

Alright Yeli here’s your signature moment

I’ll take it!!!

nice!

Yeah

Not trying to do too much™️

Holy shit

Hell yeah got him out of there

and Yamamoto out!

would not have put money on that happening

Pressure is getting to the Dodgers

Yamamoto yoinked after 2.2 was not on my bingo card

Dodgers are carrying thirteen pitchers

Honestly I know he was struggling and visibly sweating and all that and missing the zone but I still felt at any second he’d throw some filth that dipped in and caught a corner and got himself out of it. Like the second strike in that Bauers AB. You could tell he was praying for someone to catch one of those million foul balls.

realizing that any permutation of the world series that doesn't involve the dodgers will be a ratings nightmare for mlb

― 龜, Monday, October 12, 2026 6:01 AM (nine hours ago)

even right now at this very second, LA is still the odds-on favorite to win the WS.

Pressure is getting to the Dodgers

― na (NA), Monday, October 12, 2026 5:21 PM

hahaha

_realizing that any permutation of the world series that doesn't involve the dodgers will be a ratings nightmare for mlb

― 龜, Monday, October 12, 2026 6:01 AM (nine hours ago) _

even right now at this very second, LA is still the odds-on favorite to win the WS.

Fox was playing California Love coming back from one of the breaks lol

I take it Die Kreuzen, Garbage, Al Jarreau or the VFemmes are not on the playlist?

If they manage to beat Skubal and Yamamoto then I hope someone has a nice banana type pie waiting for Murphy

”If two-thirds of the inning is over, it means one-third of the inning is left, and a lot can be done. One-third is a big piece of the pie, you know what I mean? Like, I love banana cream pie with vanilla wafers. Or banana pudding in a pie-shaped form, if you know anyone that makes them. Anyway, I love that. And if I eat two-thirds of it, that's a big portion, but there's a lot left for tomorrow."
Reporter: "That went in a totally different direction than I expected."
Murph: "It did for me, too."

Banana pudding in a pie-shaped form

Yankees is a mindset

Damnit Henderson

All three runs were just given away

Never seen a pitcher be pulled for their lack of defensive acumen

Bomb

This game is so much fun

Who even closes for the Brewers these days?

Was he safe?

They didn’t challenge it so de facto. Didn’t matter anyway

Megill would probably close again

Coop was safe, he wasn’t on the bag when he caught it

Can both teams just try be normal for the next three innings please

Brewers are playing well

Wild Bill feelin it today

Yeah does he have a personal grudge or something?

Megill would probably close again

Bunt catch and steal till they get to…Megíll?

New inning: time for a lead change 🤞

Uribe is so nasty

Stupid

How the fuck did he make contact there this guy’s pitches probably scream into the glove

Hamilton balling out today

I love him and I love that they remind everyone that the Red Sox never bothered to get him to bunt while he was there!

I thought it was great when they interviewed Dave Roberts and he mentioned him 😌

Isn’t Wrobleski a starter? Why are they using him here?

Oh ok last lefty from the pen but I thought he was a long relief guy

Alright Megill please no walks

Wrobo is everything. Ace-bum-opener-starter-longrelief-middlerelief-closer. He's like the utility guy of pitchers. He's the Enrique Hernadez of pitchers

412 million vs 142 million

lol dodgers suck

Don't see the Dodgers coming back from 2-0 with the state of the bats. Not to take anything away from the Brewers, they've played like the best team in baseball

Beating Yamamoto and Skubal is remarkable really

Ashby is such a dog

Honestly some very impressive ABs against the best pitching staff in the whole game. I really enjoy watching Yamamoto and he’s your ultimate big stage guy and they still blooped him to death, honestly impressive the way they take ABs

They gave away 4 runs and left 12 on base and still won by 3 vs. the best postseason starter in the game, awesome win

that Bauer AB was legendary

can't believe they took the first two.

deeply satisfying, thanking u brews

that Bauer AB was legendary

Heard his ABs aren’t worth watching 😎 That was incredible, seven minutes or whatever? Arguably a pivotal moment in the game

foster griffin is a tough option to have to go with for your series opener

aka foster the griffin

He was mowing down White Sox iirc, are they just all lefties with high swing and miss who can’t hit LHP or what

Brewers pitchers only gave up 4 hits (3 singles, 1 double) and 2 BBs but LA capitalized on that for 4 runs. Truly old school baseball.

Ohtani and Smith are both obviously hurt, might as well slot them in the meat of the order right?

De Paula as DH, Feduccia as C. Roberts just has to

Only way I'd miss that game is for tennis, and unfortunately, that's what happened. Love the result. Win one in L.A., one more at home. (Not that such thinking ever works.)

I imagine they’re feeling a little ambitious than wanting to win one in LA right now!

xps to Shasta hard to move him lower when you have Kyle Tucker hitting eighth (?!)

Have to say I was glad the Cubs didn’t sign Tucker

jesus. glad they seem ok after that collision

Rays put in Cole Sulser instead of their #1 set-up man Kevin Kelly and Sulser ended up imploding. Thought the Rays were gonna cruise through this round but this game might set the tone for the rest of the series.

the Bauers BB was unreal. the Yelich single was basically nailed on after that

I still see the Dodgers getting back in this series and sending it back to Milwaukee. I would not be upset if the Brewers win out though, they are a good story and at least it's not the Padres.

brewers sweeping the dodgers in nlcs one year after getting swept by the dodgers in the nlcs would be such a good story

especially since they lost to the Dodgers in the playoffs twice before that, one in an NLCS that went to Game 7...still remember Yelich hitting a home run in the 1st inning and thinking, oh my god, this could actually happen....they lost 5-1. they just cannot score against this team in the playoffs. until now!

not counting any chickens though, Milwaukee has lost in the postseason in pretty brutal fashion before, this team definitely feels different though. they did all the things last night you do when you lose big playoff games, didn't really play great in Game 1 either...but they won both

pat murphy has so much rizz too, who are the real wizards behind the curtain over at milwaukee? losing counsell to get murphy, letting stearns go run the mets into the ground while matt arnold quietly assembles one of the best teams in baseball

timellison
Posted: 12 October 2026 at 23:42:10
Banana pudding in a pie-shaped form

hard to say, I think Murphy has done a great job managing this team in Bud Grant style, he believes in his guys and expects them to be at their best but he's not pushing them too hard or forcing them to do things they're not good at. personally I think their pitching coach and related staff have to be the secret sauce, for the last decade they've made solid starters out of castoffs, great bullpen guys out of failed starters, lockdown relievers out of people who weren't really on anyone's radar, a lot of these guys like Burnes, Peralta, Hader etc. have gotten big contracts elsewhere but they've never been as good as they were in Milwaukee

I liked that he didn't hide his irritation at Henderson's terrible throw over to first.

he was also pissed that he walked Mookie to lead off the game. did say he thought he was pitching well overall though

this has got to be the first day in my life where the Brewers are actually considered the favorites to win the World Series. who knows if they'll actually do it but man, I really never thought I'd see the day

lol that is kind of a crazy thought

Frogs did you see that article in the Athletic re Yeli

Also shout out Hammy getting a video feature on mlb network lol

no, can't find it either (they do have one on Contreras, who is also awesome)

Yeli is a good example of what makes this fanbase so great. feel like that kind of career - one MVP season, one near MVP season, then a bunch of seasons underperforming and hurt, never really coming through in the playoffs - would not play well in a major market. he's still widely loved here and you can tell it means a lot to him.

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7676153/2026/10/10/christian-yelich-brewers-journey-mvp-captain/?unlocked_article_code=1.IVE.otqM.C8RqJOdZyIZG&source=user_shared_article&smid=ta-ios-share

Here you go chief, I will look for the Contreras one later. WmC lmk if not allowed

(xpost) Nice way to frame that. I think Toronto's kind of the same--if you're a fan favourite, you really have to mess up to lose that.

(Blue Jays, that is...not sure if that's true of the Leafs.)

Do Yankees fans hate Paul Goldschmidt? I kind of doubt they do. I imagine they would have generally been OK with Yelich over the last five years. This year less so, but I'm sure there was talk in Milwaukee about his offensive numbers as well.

extremely annoyed that the rays fixed freddy peralta

chandler simpson baltimore chop, defense so preoccupied with trying to throw simpson out at 1st they let mesa jr go all the way to third from first

guards are getting guardsballed

Tampa's season-long bullpen magic has worn off.

they've been pulling that off for a decade now!

xp was this in relation to Ian Seymour giving up an rbi lol

Deluca walks out to Candy by Mk.Gee?

He’s DeLike that.

ALCS game 3 moved to 1pm EST tomorrow which is great news for me who’ll be in France and wasn’t planning on staying awake till 5am for these games. Good fucking luck @ me finding somewhere to watch them though

The last four teams standing walk up music

https://www.mlb.com/rays/ballpark/music

https://www.mlb.com/brewers/ballpark/music

https://www.mlb.com/dodgers/ballpark/music

https://www.mlb.com/guardians/ballpark/music

Jake Bauers with the classic soul cut ("California Soul" by Marlena Shaw)

xp was this in relation to Ian Seymour giving up an rbi lol

― bruich, a stór (gyac), Tuesday, October 13, 2026 11:45 PM (yesterday)

Seymour looks rusty, but Cole Sluser and Kevin Kelly both shit their respective beds.

Kelly esp:
2026 regular season: 2.44 ERA 0.90 WHIP (63K:8BB)
2026 postseason: 6.75 ERA 3.00 WHIP (1K:1BB)

Kelly going by his regular season game logs is a guy that needs to pitch regularly to stay on top form, he hadn’t pitched since the 7th when he entered the game on the 12th

Rays should have targeted teh WC

Least a small market team like them could have done, leave winning the division to the big boys

haha... seeing so many LAD/NYY gear ads in the algo, MLB really must be shitting their pants.

Ohtani and Smith still in the lineup

This surely cannot be true because oh no if so. Do they think the Brewers invented the art of grinding out an AB?!

https://i.postimg.cc/JnVC8ddd/IMG-2344.jpg

hahahahaha YES

lol okay then

one pitch and they scored more than they did vs him last year

Jackson ChWHOrio

pitching very well besides that though

god their outfield defense is so good

suffocating in brew rn

worse ways to go I guess

Joey Ortiz has a real Super Troopers look going

that's just a normal looking dude over here in Australia

8 strikeouts for Snell already Jesus

Crazy that Ohtani is batting below Pages given last years playoffs

🚨🚨🚨Ohtani on base🚨🚨🚨

I've seen this game too many times. Ace Dodger gives up single home run in the 1st, then locks down for a complete game to lose 1-0 with 12LOB by the Dodgers offense

Surely Uribe is due for a regression

Gasser looking like the actual real young stud SP for MIL.

Cmon don’t walk the leadoff guy

Brutal

drake meme:
walking the bases loaded
walking the bases loaded to get to Ohtani

meatball right down the middle... that's a slump buster

Why is he still out there

Barf

Surely Uribe is due for a regression

― H.P, Wednesday, October 14, 2026 6:35 PM (fourteen minutes ago)

🎯

wild he wasn't taken out after the 3rd walk

should've been out after the 3rd batter, if it's a 1-0 playoff game and your guy walks 2 in a row without them even swinging the bat you can't leave him out there

pretty bad body language from enrique there

hopefully they can get Snell out this inning, if they go down quick it might be over

man you could pack for a weeklong trip in those bags under Snell's eyes

aahhhhhhhhh so close

hahahaha suck it

THERE IT IS!!!!

hahahaha suck it

― 龜, Wednesday, October 14, 2026 10:09 PM (fifty-two seconds ago)

LEAVE HIM IN

AMAZIG!!!

greeehehehehee

Omfg

Adam Vaughn has broken his second pitcher in as many games

it's Jake Bauers!!

Brewers smacking 3 HRs while the Dodgers only scoring their walks is not how I saw this going

yes i was excited my bad

Great job from the Fox producer/director with that montage of stunned looks.

https://preview.redd.it/just-hook-it-to-my-veins-v0-a9v2r8g4f45f1.jpeg?auto=webp&s=635e22f4ef55ae52245b8602203ad4b3558a0c3f

think the dodgers saw fewer pitches in that inning than bauers did in his at bat

lmao that Bauers returned to the league just for the health insurance, god bless this country

awesome defense on all 3 outs there

great time to be a life long brewers fan like myself

That's the Jakey B that helped power my team to the title in a "Dingers Only" one-stat fantasy league!

lol that soliloquy about pitbulls sometimes he might bite a kid but hes going to protect everything we believe in

thats cool if not biting kids isnt something you believe in i guess to each their own

oh, so i DID hear that right?!

hahahahah

This Hall dude is lowk excellent.

yeah if i knew how to look up pitching stats i'd wanna know the rpm on that breaking ball of his, it's got a wicked snap

https://baseballsavant.mlb.com/gamefeed?date=10/14/2026&gamePk=849811&chartType=pitch&legendType=pitchName&playerType=pitcher&inning=&count=&pitchHand=&batSide=&descFilter=&ptFilter=&resultFilter=&hf=pitchVelocity&sportId=1&liveAb=#849811

wow yeah he hit 3000 rpm on those curves he was throwing edman, that's elite

dodgers stadium lookin pretty empty, traffic back from chavez ravine truly must be wicked

Let’s go Super Troopers

threepeat on life support

🧹🧹🧹🧹

This video of Jackson Churio with the mantis on his shoulder is amazing, the end part is like from a cartoon lol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0sGF_2gb4E

This Hall dude is lowk excellent.

He and Joey Ortiz were in the Corbin Burnes trade and it’s taken both of them a little while to start clicking. Ortiz is a pretty good defensive shortstop, he’s a league average bat but they don’t need him to be a bopper, they just need him to put the ball in play.

lol that soliloquy about pitbulls sometimes he might bite a kid but hes going to protect everything we believe in

What was this 🫪

one of the tv guys relaying a conversation he had with one of the managers comparing one of the players to a pit bull sry dont remember who the guys were

Someone just reminded me of something I hadn't thought of once thus far: the Pilots are one win away from the WS.

I subsequently found the quote and lmao worst compliment ever

"He's our pit bull," manager Pat Murphy said. "You've got to keep him in the cage, and then when you let them out, he might bite a few kids and there might be some ramifications. But you know he'll do a lot of good out there, and he's going to protect our values and standards."

lol values and standards

what can I say Murph has a way with words

Only two first-pitch HR in post-season history both given up by Snell (flashed by quickly, but I think I read that right...and I of course remember the other.)

Speaking of which...on this day in 1968: "MLB American League expansion draft: Kansas City Royals pick Baltimore Orioles pitcher Roger Nelson, and Seattle Pilots pick California Angels infielder Don Mincher first as they choose 30 players each."

did last night's game even sell out? there looked to be plenty of open seats in the upper deck and after the back-to-back HR it looked absolutely dead. I can't believe people were streaming for the exits while only down 2. yes the offense looked dead but this team won two straight WS and won 100 games this year, you really think it's over?

I've always said the postseason is all about watching teams with stars like the Brewers hit home runs.

dodgers stadium is old school and seats 56k so harder to sell out xp

did last night's game even sell out?

LA, if you've never been, is a carbrained quagmire of traffic at all hours. Dodger Stadium is located smack dab in one of the most isolated areas of that urban megapolis with zero mass transit solutions. The stadium is notorious for snarled congestion leading in (and out of) the park that backs up several major freeways on gamedays.

Dodger fans have the reputation for arriving in the 3rd and leaving in the 7th, and as someone who once lived within 2 miles of that stadium I can be empathetic to their plight as some fans have spent several hours in the car already just to get there, who wants to spend another hour or two idling in the parking lot in a sea of brake lights.

So that's why you never really see pictures of Dodger Stadium unless it's midgame because you will wonder if anyone even goes to the games due to the wide swaths of yellow and orange empty seats early and late.

dodgers stadium is old school

It was designed during/for peak carbrain-ism and is now a living fossil of that tattered empire.

(remember LA lost one of their basketball superstars because he thought taking a helicopter might be safer and faster than driving 60 miles)

If the Brewers win tonight I'm 100% turning this thread into a Mike Davis tribute.

it's probably one of the absolute worst locations of any sportsball park in the country and obv its history is "complicated"

chandler simpson ☺️

Electric triple from him, the shot of him on third with his batting helmet fallen off firing up the dugout was gold

Gavin Williams is getting a literal red neck, please put on sunscreen omg

sonny gray's pine tar?

Rays bullpen woes continue... wild.

Idk if I’d call giving up a two run shot to a random woes and not just standard variance tbh? Guardians look like they’re throwing everything at them pitching wise and the Rays haven’t been able to break through. 3 runs in 9 innings isn’t anything if they were hitting. And they were fortunate Wells and Matz looked good coming in.

We’ll see, I’m not convinced either team has the juice for the WS on this form so far. I think you could have expected the Guardians to win this one with their ace going. Who was saying the other day they liked Chandler Simpson cos they loved Rickey?

that'd be me

I can’t recall where the clip was now but when they had that Negro Leagues game at Rickwood Field he made this fun post (nothing to do with Rickey, just Chandler Simpson tipping the cap to an older tradition of baseball that is important to him!)
https://i.postimg.cc/W4301nh2/IMG-2433.jpg
https://i.postimg.cc/tgMWZxVL/IMG-2434.jpg

hah love that. can't remember where i read it but i'm remembering now a lot of modern baseball strategy like the double steal was first innovated in the negro leagues (iirc it was considered unsportsmanlike in the white major leagues at the time?)

so many redass killjoys back then too

Yeah. I only got into the game in 2022 so a lot of the cultural knowledge and context of the game is something I have to learn for myself and form connections that would be obvious to long term fans, especially Americans. 42 was really helpful in that regard because the film specifically highlighted how Jackie played, as a legacy of how they played the game in the Negro Leagues, and how much certain white players in the league despised the way he played because “playing the game the right way” to an extent has always meant “playing the game the white way.”

https://www.mlb.com/royals/news/ozzie-smith-rickey-henderson-ferguson-jenkins-and-luis-tiant-enter-hall-of-game/c-120476322

Rickey debuted long after integration but he was still inducted into the NL HoF as a recognition of how his play reflected how those players played - fast, fearless, flamboyantly.

I watched the the first game, Cleveland is cooking. Too bad there isn't a participation trophy in the next round.

Let's Fo!

We didn’t miss you in this thread btw

First play is an omen

I just learned to ignore you

Xpost

Don't understand the hate, why you don't get me is baffling.

Your participation trophy comment, being a fan of a team that finished almost as far below .500 as the Rockies, is a joke.

Don't understand the hate, why you don't get me is baffling as I wear my heart on my sleeve. ILM...

participation was just a play on words. The AL just doesn't have a chance in the next round is all.

Sheesh I thought Drohan was gonna have to get pulled there

Clean up hitter Will Smith: .201 OPS

Minor rally squandered by Ohtani and Smith, who could have predicted this?

Sheesh I thought Drohan was gonna have to get pulled there

He’s a rookie in the biggest game of his life tbh and I imagine they’ll have a quick hook if the game’s still close, he was probably shitting himself. I was glad Contreras eventually went out to him.

Did they just play "elevated"

One of my all-time favorites!

@ Shasta isn’t Smith either playing hurt or recently returned from injury? He hasn’t looked himself at all

That album has turned out to be one of the best pop albums of all-time

May pitching here in Los Angeles against his old team must seem surreal

Oh ok Dustin May I guess this is one of those games

Why put Rojas in the lineup if you’re going to ph for him immediately

How is Muncy your #7 hitter? Only a Dodgers problem

Fuck.

Rojas got his one AB against the lefty

Lmao

What a. Moment

hoping the dodgers lose but Ohtani bombs are so aesthetically pleasing

i dont understand why joe davis is allowed to be the announcer for this series, clearly he cant be impartial

John Smoltz is worse

Was Ohtani yelling, “What’s up?”

xp he's been totally fine (based on the limited bits i've seen)

The stadium is like half full

Weird but is probably a traffic problem.

But they just showed another shot and it looks half full

Bauers again!

Wow

We have a game

bauers had some incredible takes that ab. pitches were barely missing the inside

they keep coming

Yes

god i love manufactured runs

You can get field level seats for Game 5 tomorrow for under $200 on SeatGeek right now

Dodgers are gonna blow a 4-0 on the way to a 0-4 NLCS

god i love the wheels on this team

Chourio’s line out to center 109.8 mph

Gotta cash in here cmon

Bases loaded

why am I watching this

I guess that’ll do

Tie

shook ones pt ii

tyler glasnow makes a lot of money for a nearly 32yo who has:

9.2 career bWAR
107 career ERA+
never made more than 22 starts in a season and broken 15 only twice
never pitched more than 134 IP in a season and broken 90 only three times
no cy votes and one all-star nod

― mookieproof, Wednesday, May 28, 2025 10:19 PM

good guy tho

I actually think about that post quite a bit

Dodger bullpen use will be interesting from here on out

wow

Wow!

Unbelievable

Yeah that's me. Congrats frogs

Oh my god

Hey 4 innings to go it ain’t over

The Brewers are just a better team

I want the sad faces cam

Dodger bullpen use will be interesting from here on out

― timellison, Thursday, October 15, 2026 6:59 PM (seven minutes ago)

Yama & Skub?

i'm crediting mets legend daniel vogelbach for this vulgar display of power

That AB was sick

i'm crediting mets legend daniel vogelbach for this vulgar display of power

otm

Git him

Pretty nice getting through that part of the order without using Ashby

jojo romero has retired more than $1 billion worth of dodgers

Diaz against top of the order

"hey snell, you good to go in the 9th?

Ok

Got him,

good morning, good afternoon and good night shohei

Brewers gets out of a double

Oh no

https://i.ibb.co/rJqSybN/Screenshot-2026-10-15-at-7-47-39-PM.png

how was the ABS on #5 upheld as a ball or is my gameday wonky?

It was barely out

this ^^^ overlay alone is sponsored by kalshi/polymarkets

Wow

Ashby might get that MVP after all

They’re not making this easy are they

Come on come on come on

not even a brewers fan and i can't watch

Asking Diaz for a 3rd inning is a choice

nice

This team

(Hamilton had 4 HRs all season)

Wow Diaz had eight batters down

Wheeeeew

Asking Diaz for a 3rd inning is a choice

unfathomable

Dave Roberts will have an interesting offseason.

not gonna lie enjoying the diaz schadenfreude right now

I can't believe this, we're so close

wish it had been treinen instead

1

ONE MORE

CURVEBALLS

2

well done brewcrew

Congrats Brewers fan

woooooooow

what a series.

better than the 82 team?

congrats to frogs

ws first pitches in milwaukee:

yount
molitor
. . .

Congrats frogs!

Congrats Brewers on crushing your enemies, seeing them driven before you, etc etc

Bauers NLCS MVP

what a moment for the 'richest nation' in the world's lack of healthcare for its own people

Hurray!

I remember Mike Caldwell

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=po5HxJgyaMU

how it feels rn

lol

(xposts) I remember Danny Walton.

alright I'm gonna be real corny right now and share this photo my wife took

https://i.imgur.com/4wNlFYJ.jpeg

❤️

awesome moment!

aww

Hell yeah, enjoy it! 2010 was a massive bonding moment with my father

Brew Crew! Congratulations frogbs! Imagine spending all that money on a roster and getting got by David Hamilton! It’s nice to see them finally break through in October given that they’ve dogwalked the whole game this year.

alright I'm gonna be real corny right now and share this photo my wife took

https://i.imgur.com/4wNlFYJ.jpeg🕸

I’m so glad I’m in France and can see this 🥺 your son must be so excited!

not gonna lie enjoying the diaz schadenfreude right now

DAVID HAMILTON got him? David Hamilton?!

_tyler glasnow makes a lot of money for a nearly 32yo who has:

9.2 career bWAR
107 career ERA+
never made more than 22 starts in a season and broken 15 only twice
never pitched more than 134 IP in a season and broken 90 only three times
no cy votes and one all-star nod

― mookieproof, Wednesday, May 28, 2025 10:19 PM_

I actually really like Glasnow and he’s very good and frank about the realities of the game and what it demands from pitchers (look up his Chris Rose rotation interviews) & it’s good he got paid cos he’s been running his body into the ground for teams his whole major league career. Supremely talented when he’s on. He’s like 6’8 and throws hard, not that many teams can afford to have him as part of their rotation because you can’t guarantee he’ll qualify for the ERA title.

He and Snell have basically one Yamamoto’s worth of a rotation spot between both of them. It’s kind of what I was saying with risk not being a concept the Dodgers experience the same as the rest of the league due to their resources.

Whats so awesome about the sweep for me personally is that months ago I got tickets to see Weird Al, the Packers/Cowboys game, and BEAT, unbeknownst to me that these all fell within the same week, which are today, Sunday, and Monday, the potential games 5, 6, and 7. I don't know how I could've concentrated during any of them!

2025 sour-grapes guy: what I especially love is the humiliation factor. You're going to get swept, you're going to lose the final game at home, and you're going to lose the lead in every game.

last year sucked but it wasn't exactly difficult emotionally because it never really felt like the Brewers were in it. when Shohei hit his 3rd home run in that game where he also struck out 10 it just made me laugh like, okay, I get why they gave this guy four trillion dollars

2018 (also against the Dodgers) was the one that was brutal. Brewers were up 2-1 and had a chance to get them on the ropes but lost a 13-inning Game 4, the one where Machado (possibly) tried to injure Jesus Aguilar and then scored the winning run with the help of a wild pitch. pretty sure this happened at like 2 AM and I had to work the next day at 6:30 so that was brutal. they got it to Game 7 and Yelich hit a HR in the 1st inning and I remember thinking, oh my god, they could actually be WS bound. they lost 5-1 though. iirc things flipped when Yelich got robbed in the outfield and then Puig hit a 3 run HR off Jeffress, which was fairly predictable given the announcers saying Jeffress hadn't given up a homer in soooo long

at the time it seemed like that was gonna be their last chance for a while, insane they've made the playoffs every year since. Yeli of course is the only one left from that team and outside of Burnes, Hader, Woodruff, and maybe Orlando Arcia (?) none of those players are even in the majors anymore.

They literally haven’t made it to the WS in my lifetime. That’s crazy.

Good shit Frogbs! happy for the Brewers, if i weren't a lifelong LA fan it would be very easy to root for Milwaukee

Thought this was pretty great:

https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1872727384176912

I’ll watch the rest of that clip in a minute but this reminds me of a conversation I had earlier about how Hamilton was hated in Boston even though then as now he was never an everyday player and was basically moved around various positions, not encouraged to or directed to bunt, attracted disproportionate amounts of hate. He’s not an everyday guy on the Brewers either, but he’s been deployed perfectly and I’m so happy to see him doing so well.
https://i.postimg.cc/9F6KCMpJ/05ec09a5-b94a-48b3-92f4-c107110b1b9b.jpg

My churlish post above notwithstanding, I'm seeing a few post-game Dodger interviews, and to a player they're all pretty gracious.

oh wow, I was wondering they Hamilton bunted there with 2 out no one on...that's awesome

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7691517/2026/10/16/brewers-sweep-dodgers-milwaukee-world-series-drought/?unlocked_article_code=1.JFE.bitc.TiVkSKAihsxx&source=user_shared_article&smid=ta-ios-share

“We adore our ’82 players,” Marti Wronski, the Milwaukee Brewers’ chief operating officer, said on Thursday night. “We celebrate them whenever we can.”

Wronski was 10 years old that fall, watching with her father at home in Neenah, Wisc., up near Oshkosh. Her favorite player, Robin Yount, did all he could in that World Series, hitting .414 to match the Milwaukee area code. When the St. Louis Cardinals won in seven games, the city still held a parade down Wisconsin Avenue. The Brewers had made them proud.

ya I mean no matter what happens this is easily the most beloved Brewers team of my life, can't wait to see what the atmosphere for Game 1 is gonna be like

Things looking dicey in Cleveland. MLB just announced a delay. Heard a 9pm start being floated around lol.

How the fuck has this game not been postponed yet?

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

One hour delay is not to bas

still pouring, outfield/warning track underwater, tarps still on...

good god cancel this shit! i knew this was gonna happen twelve fucking hours ago. play sunday who gives a fuck if you have no off day.

Yeah, I agree

ok they finally PPD

Been postponed;

Sat 8 PM est 5 pacific
Sun 5 PM est 2 pacific

has there ever been a doubleheader in the postseason?

I don't think postseason doubleheaders are allowed in the current CBA.

speaking of CBA, i've been warned there are S-tier garbage takes in the new thread. should i continue to avoid it?

Yes but I admire JOd take even if it is wrong.

Defense more than take it should read

my takes are good, naturally

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

Petey Halpin makes me want some scotch. who am i to argue?

Only one run; huge for Cleveland.

Honestly unsure who to cheer for in this series. I love the idea of two teams meeting up in the WS that have never won before, but am finding the Guardians easier to root for

You're a Jays fan; all those years of the Rays fucking us up is hard-wired into your soul.

double steal hell yeah

why would you not ABS there?!!?!?!?!?

its yandy diaz

Apparently he “doesn’t challenge”??

Also terrible play by DeLauter there. Nearly collided with Petey chasing the ball down

How can that only be a single when the ball went under the outfielders glove?

Oh sorry, he was on third

single and two bases on the error yeah?

I don't get the logic of never challenging. The one reason you might do that is to get the umps on your side...which, with the challenge, doesn't matter.

great inning by the rays. 3 runs on no extra base hits

There's one

Like others I don't know who I'm rooting for. Just looking for some good games.

"Hmmm, let's use Freddy Peralta for a couple outs and then switch him out with a guy who I've lost trust in, and leave him out to dry..."

Holy cow...thought this one was over.

Another one

My daughter and I logic’d this out and decided; we’re cheering Guardians.

wow, they really want to lose this one

Peralta threw 9 pitches
Seymour threw 29

He cut open his lip by sliding into first

I'll never understand

Broadcasters are now talking about it

it looks cooler is basically what it comes down to. modern, agreed upon understanding is that it's slower tho, correct?

“chase delauter hit a homer” to country roads is p good

Best of 3

I don't get the logic of never challenging. The one reason you might do that is to get the umps on your side...which, with the challenge, doesn't matter.

His logic is apparently that it takes him out of the game, but one of the beat reporters said the team doesn’t like it (that he won’t use ABS). When they reported on this in August (with a quote from June):

Outfielder Chandler Simpson had issued only four challenges through Tuesday, none of which resulted in an overturn. Designated hitter Yandy Diaz has so far refused to make a challenge, occasionally giving the umpire an unsavory look but never tapping his helmet.
“I don’t like it,” Diaz said via interpreter Kevin Vera. “When I go to home plate, I need a hit, not a challenge. … Maybe in the World Series some time, but now, (no)."

I agree that this is a dumb stance, he’s got a great eye for the zone.

this was the AB in question:

https://i.ibb.co/BK52zksd/Screenshot-2026-10-18-at-9-01-08-AM.png

runners on 2/3 and no outs in the top of the 7th of a 1-run ballgame in the CS.

that is a no-brainer from an analytics side but i do understand the mental focus of a gamer who needs to suppress anything that may interfere with their talent.

if his eye is great for the zone, then it would come in handy in a challenge here.

https://i.ibb.co/BK52zksd/Screenshot-2026-10-18-at-9-01-08-AM.png

First time listening to any pregame shows, and Pedro sounds AWFUL, just struggling to speak. Has he had some sort of health event recently?

Has Messick ever thrown this many innings in a season?

I googled it - 133 minor league innings in 2024 was his previous high

yeah, he had an amazing season but looks like he's reached the end of his proverbial rope.

Miz probably having the same issue

The Dem running against my current asshole congressman has a commercial narrated by Morgan Freeman and he’s managed an ad buy during this game (on hbo).

rays are a better team but the guards have an electric fanbase

rooting for a brewers guards world series but will be happy with brewers rays

Tense!

Steven Kwan is so good.

https://www.mlb.com/gameday/849817/video/shawn-armstrong-in-play-out-s-to-jonathan-aranda-1xglcr

Yandy waking up and remembering he hates Cleveland is so good. Also he had another ball blatantly called a strike in his last AB which he didn’t challenge.

Messick early hook really hurt the Guards pen, but full credit to them they are fighting every single inning.

I've got a mild rooting interest for the Guardians (more a rooting interest against the Rays), but if the two teams with the best record in their league end up in the WS, I think that's a good thing.

Also he had another ball blatantly called a strike in his last AB which he didn’t challenge.

― bruich, a stór (gyac), Sunday, October 18, 2026 5:03 PM (two hours ago)

thought of you lol!

Rays are obvs a better team on paper (98W) but Cleveland (85W) is doing the WC/Cinderella special and staying hot by playing long series and hopefully have not run out of gas. Cleveland is playing esp. well on the road which will make this St. Pete finale unpredictable. I think Rays take it.

a bold prediction

In series with the 2-3-2 format that have been tied 2-2, teams winning Game 5 on the road (before going home for Games 6-7) have gone on to take the series 21 of 28 times (75%)

FPeralta has been announced as Game 6 starter tomorrow, making his 9 pitches appearance yesterday a fairly notable bullpen session.

I agree with Shasta, the Rays are clearly the better team but there's a weird X factor about this Cleveland team. Guardians vs Brewers feels like a more dramatic series than Rays vs Brewers but history will be made either way.

If it is Brewers/Rays, I hope it totally ends up being the Chourio/Caminero Show (with at least one memorable start from Mis).

Cleveland's 3rd straight bullpen game really exposing how thin their pitching staff really is.

Does the NL have an analog to Chandler Simpson?

#fredward

looking at his stats trying to get an idea of what an analog might look like (outside of "fast!") and surprised at how few doubles he gets (15 this year, 16 last). and it's not like he's tuning them into triples (9 career total). i guess when you can take second base anytime you want (3/4 of the time), you don't have to push your luck.

Ian Seymour is Tampa's hill they will die on.

gg Guardians, well played!

I looked at JRam's 2026 stats today and had no idea his power evaporated. I know he's approaching 35 but I thought he was still a 20-30HR guy.

That Guardian strikeout to end the 8th was terrible...Anyway, 201 wins and the league's two best teams will square off, and somebody will win their first; can't ask for anything more.

Congrats Rays, thanks for not making me look at those hbo commercials anymore. Brewers in 4.

excited to see the 'is getting a bye actually harmful?' stories recommence whenever baseball does

I looked at JRam's 2026 stats today and had no idea his power evaporated. I know he's approaching 35 but I thought he was still a 20-30HR guy.

hamate bone

THE RAYS WIN THE PENNANT OH MY GOD

GAME 1 BOLD PREDIX: Mis gets knocked out after 3.1IP, 110 pitches with 10Ks. Rasmussen dominates for the W.

This is genuinely so heartwarming, Glasnow and Arozarena were there!

https://www.mlb.com/news/tyler-glasnow-randy-arozarena-attend-2026-alcs-game-6-at-trop

And Alejandro Kirk!
https://i.postimg.cc/QdJ7K8Hm/IMG-3039.jpg

I’M GOING TO MAKE A NEW THREAD SHASTA BRB BRB BRB

should have been rooting for clevo but then found myself in practice rooting for the rays

all in for the brewers tho

THERE WAS FINALLY A CAMINERO HOME RUN

who is the ALCS mvp? Is it Drew Rasmussen? Sorry I literally just woke up it’s 5.27 in Belgium

bloody belgians

i'll take a sympathy kriekenlambik if you indulge.

2026 World Series: Milwaukee Brewers vs Tampa Bay Rays
Omg it was Freddy Peralta and he’s going to face the Brewers

xp I had a lambic beer yesterday but it surely wasn’t kriek

THAT’S
MY
ALCS
MVP

https://i.postimg.cc/FsWRMYkJ/IMG-2859.png

some interesting trivia:
last time the WS had two teams that had never won before...
was 1980. Royals v Phillies. honestly had no idea it took the Phils 97 years of baseball to win a WS!!

Only thing I remember from that: Rose playing in at third and daring Willie Wilson to bunt. When he finally did, Rose threw him out and engaged in some theatrics...Looking at BRef, it was actually a really close series.

(Which, checking, I have typically misremembered--got the first part right.)

dude. i hid the answer for a reason!

Ah, sorry--you were quizzing.

I really don’t get what Vogt was doing wasting Cade Smith yesterday

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Zenrr4qAxw

This is cute (also Pedro sounds fine here, so maybe he was just under the weather?)

Richie Palacios after the Rays were down 1-2 comparing them to the Knicks (he was proved correct by events)

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DenN9F7tlOs/

gyac i got your ilxmail by the way but no contact info was left

lol I didn’t know if you had an ilxmail that works so I didn’t include…will message you now

Re Thermo's trivia I messed up above...I'd actually be more inclined to view it through the prism of cities, not franchises. When Toronto faced Atlanta in 1992, neither city had ever won a WS--and I doubt Milwaukee's WS win in 1957 meant a whole lot to people living in Atlanta at the time. Conversely, even though neither franchise this year has ever won one, I bet there are hundreds (maybe thousands) of people in their 70s and 80s living in Milwaukee who were kids when the Braves won in '57.

it feels right for the Brewers to win, they've got that 2016 Cubs vibe imo, hope it's a fun series and Milwaukee fans aren't quite put through the same wringer Cubs fans were in G7 against Cleveland.

Cubs winning it all threw the entire Earth off its axis, when we win it will all be corrected

Cubs transferred the curse from themselves to the world, some real apocalyptic shit

Nice--I'll have to quote that.

Meg rowley’s thing is 2016 opened a portal to hell

Does the NL have an analog to Chandler Simpson?

― be dang if it aint (WmC), Tuesday, 20 October 2026 02:29 (sixteen hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

I was going to say “David Hamilton” but Simpson is an everyday player with a far better hit tool. Hammy is more like Palacios on the Rays.

justin crawford on the phillies imo is an analog to simpson

wow i was bang on (first time ever using baseball savant for this!)

https://i.postimg.cc/wjvqrdBm/Screenshot-2026-10-20-at-2-58-48-PM.png

https://www.sportsmediawatch.com/2026/10/dodgers-brewers-game-1-viewership-milestone-fox/

https://www.sportsmediawatch.com/2026/10/brewers-dodgers-lcs-viewership-high/

https://www.sportsmediawatch.com/2026/10/mlb-postseason-viewership-dips-still-nears-high-lcs-recap/