2. Former Yank Gary Sanchez. Seriously. He flopped in NY, after a grand unveiling. Still, no regrets. And who'd'a thought he'd have a ring, and Judge doesn't?
3. Fuck Tampa. Seriously. They love hating us more than they love their team. The stands were full of Brewers fans. I realize that, if the Rays won, it would hasten their collapse, as they systematically sell off their players. Still, it's nice to see them flounder. And Tropicana Field is terrible.
4. Milwaukee has never hurt us. To reopen a flesh wound, you must time-travel back to 1957, with Del Crandall, Lou Burdette and a 23-year-old Hank Aaron. Even I don't go back that far. (Also, Green Bay doesn't count.)
5. Milwaukee, the city. How can you hate on a town known for beer and sausage?
6. The Brewers' victory undercuts the owners' claim that a salary cap is necessary to restore competitive balance. What a load of crapola.
7. The Brewers won via fundamentals: Singles, bunts, baserunning, glovework - I half expected to see a hidden ball trick. Do the lords of baseball, as they sabotage their sport, realize how utterly boring it is to watch a game with 30 strikeouts? Yet they chase the three true outcomes.
8. Front Row Amy. First time I noticed the cleavage - (first batter, first inning, game one) - I figured she was some B-list scream queen, or a Kalshi's marketing answer to Sydney Sweeney. How refreshing to learn the truth: She's a true fan who has attended home games since 2007 and who scores each game by hand. Write this down: She's the greatest fan in American sports.
9. Brewers manager Pat Murphy is a Syracuse native, from a modest city neighborhood called Eastwood. That's the heartland, folks. Kids on bikes. Halloween decorations. Root for the Cuse.
10. The Dodgers didn't win. Neither did Boston. And the Mets sucked. Baby steps, eh?
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Wait a second…..
The Yankees failed to win again and baseball is done for the year and maybe even longer?
WAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!
I miss the hidden ball trick. And the Folly Floater. And the Swinging Bunt. And the Swinging Sixties. And the Swinging Blue Jeans. But, I digress.
“Sometimes it is simply better to digress than to undress”
The Honorable Ed Koch
CONGRATULATIONS, MILWAUKEE BREWERS!!! THE 2026 WORLD SERIES CHAMPIONS!!!
They didn't put up a 20 spot in the playoffs, but I'll take it! I guess playoff pitching is better than regular season pitching. And it's too bad that they couldn't sweep. I guess the fucking Tampa Rays are not as bad as they looked in the first three games. But again, I'll take it!
We got to be reminded of what real baseball looks like, however brief it was. Now, I must trudge back to the Yankee Gulag, presided over by Hal and Brian. Boone is just another inmate, but he doesn't know it yet.
There was a great comment by the broadcast crew (I think it was the tv crew - I was flippin' back and forth between the tv and radio broadcast) that Brewers skipper Pat Murphy said in August of this year that he wasn't sure about the Brewers, that they might be the same team that lost in the previous playoffs. Well, he might've been a little too close to the trees to see the forest. Because half way through the season, I knew the Brewers were going to win the World Series this year. I could feel it.
So, for the last time this year, please allow me to put on my Christoph Colombo face and say: "I TOLD YOU SO!"
They did it with no home runs, right? If they don't hit any homers, they win. LOL
Didn’t watch a single pitch.
Christian Yelich had his frickin' dogs on the field to celebrate the victory. Not his agent, not his escort, not his bookie. His dogs. Make all the jokes about Heartland Values you want, but as I hunker down waiting for another Chicago winter, all y'all were watching Pat Murphy manage the team and getting goosebumps.
There was a time not so long ago when Rizzo and Judge use to frolic in the field with their two Dachshunds-like little doggies . . .(sniffle, sniffle)
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