The 2026 World Series begins today, and instead of paying my final respect to the Cleveland Guardians on their well-fought ALCS battle against the Tampa Bay Rays, I'm choosing instead to focus on the pennant winners today because I am hoping that by this time next week, I will be congratulating the Milwaukee Brewers for clinching their first championship in franchise history. My prediction—well, wish, rather—of a Brewers win seems bold, but when the teams with the best record in their respective leagues face off in the World Series, I tend to lean toward the one with the best overall record. What affirmed this was my own gut-wrenching and in-person experience of the 98-win Los Angeles Dodgers defeating the 93-win New York Yankees in 2025. The time it happened before that was when the Rays and Dodgers were the two "best" teams of the COVID-shortened 2020 season, and as a San Francisco Giants fan, there should be no doubt that I was all in on Tampa that year. And while I wo...
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