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The Milwaukee Brewers win the first World Series title in franchise history

56 points skeptrune 1 hour ago 19 comments

speakspokespok 1 hour ago | parent

I live in the US, and have heard nothing at all about this. What surprises me is this never used to happen when I was a kid.

CGMthrowaway 1 hour ago | parent

All news is politics news now in the US. Didn't used to be like that. (Dear readers, go watch some old 80s-90s TV news broadcasts on youtube if you don't believe me)

stuart78 1 hour ago | parent

I (an extremely casual fan) forgot the series was on until yesterday's game but enjoyed the final two. I think it doesn't help that these are two 'regional' teams (compared to the Dodgers or Yankees). Good baseball just the same.

LocalH 46 minutes ago | parent

Tuesday's game was definitely the highlight of the series in terms of good baseball. Monday's game sucked ass, and I missed the first two, but tonight was like Tuesday lite. Tuesday night was some of the best baseball I have watched. I wish Tampa Bay had won a couple of more to give us a full series, but it was clear by the 7th that this game was over.

Context: I'm an adult fan of baseball that didn't like sports at all as a kid, so I developed no team loyalty. I'm all about good, exciting baseball whoever wins.

veryfancy 2 minutes ago | parent

The first two were more like Tuesday, without the extra innings.

jaqalopes 54 minutes ago | parent

You read a headline about it on a website less than an hour after it happened?

cheschire 26 minutes ago | parent

The World Series is a multi game, multi day event. This one started last Friday.

mjevans 41 minutes ago | parent

- Politics (in focus) others already pointed out

- When sports do their major events has shifted in the last decades or so

- There's no longer a common TV culture.

That last point started more with Cable TV, but everyone still got 'over the air' so coverage on major TV networks usually provided a foundation of shared culture and events. It also provided major news summaries that most busy adults managed to see a bit of. As if any of us with jobs have time for that these days.

There's also the war for everyone's attention on "Social Media" and the Internet generally.

ipaddr 20 minutes ago | parent

It doesn't explain why it is not discussed on openair channels.

jimt1234 32 minutes ago | parent

Both teams are small-ish markets. (Milwaukee is the smallest market.) Neither team has big-name players like Shohei Ohtani or Juan Soto. In other words, this was the series MLB didn't want, especially with the upcoming contracts talks.

jmyeet 3 minutes ago | parent

Baseball in general is in long-term decline [1]. And of course football rules supreme. I try not to yuck someone else's yum and I'm not the biggest sports watcher in general but personally I find baseball to be boring. There's too many games. They go on for too long. Not much happens. I think the fandom, such that it is, is from older people with nostalgia from when it was a far bigger deal and when they probably grew up playing it themselves. The latter is increasingly being displaced by soccer

[1]: https://news.gallup.com/poll/714281/football-top-sport-socce...

cbfrench 55 minutes ago | parent

Was fun to have a Series in which each team was the best in its league and in which each team was competing for its first championship. I’m a Red Sox fan, and I remember 2004. It’s a tremendous experience as a fan (of the team or just of baseball). Go Brew Crew.

milleramp 33 minutes ago | parent

As a Dodgers fan, I have to begrudgingly agree. These two teams were playing at an amazing level.

lakeviewterrace 40 minutes ago | parent

The Brewers' legendary beloved announcer Bob Uecker, who recently died at 90, and whose name adorned fans' signs during the game, was known for playing insane pranks:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmbtT5ii5F8

taftster 11 minutes ago | parent

Crazy amounts of language on this video. Not sure if that's even a data point any more.

jimt1234 31 minutes ago | parent

Any time the Dodgers or Yankees don't win the World Series, that's a reason to celebrate.

_doctor_love 19 minutes ago | parent

Congrats to the Brewers!

russellbeattie 18 minutes ago | parent

That leaves just the San Diego Padres (1969), Seattle Mariners (1977), Colorado Rockies (1993) and Tampa Bay Rays (1998) left who have never won a World Series.

Since this is baseball, I might as well provide the other stats I just pulled up as that's very much in the spirit of the game:

21 teams have won more than once: Yankees (27), Cardinals (11), Athletics (9), Red Sox (9), Dodgers (9), Giants (8), Pirates (5), Reds (5), Tigers (4), Braves (4), Cubs (3), White Sox (3), Twins (3), Orioles (3), Phillies (2), Guardians (2), Mets (2), Royals (2), Blue Jays (2), Marlins (2), Astros (2).

5 teams have one exactly once: Angels, Diamondbacks, Nationals, Rangers, Brewers.

The Mariners are the only team to never have even played in the Series.

It's been 78 years since Cleveland last won. Followed by Pittsburgh (47), Baltimore (43) and Detroit (42) (not counting the two teams that have never won above - Padres and Mariners).

The longest gaps between series wins are the Cubs at 107 years (1908-2016), White Sox at 87 years (1917-2005) and Red Sox at 85 years (1918-2004).

And in case you're unaware, the first World Series was played in 1903.

That's 124 total scheduled championship seasons (1903 through 2026), minus 2 canceled seasons (1904 boycott and 1994 strike) for a total of 122 World Series.

jackschultz 3 minutes ago | parent

Odd to see this here but I’ll comment! From Milwaukee, live here still, watch >95% of Brewer games all season and this is by far the best team I’ve ever witnessed. Entire year after the 13-13 start while some of the team was recovering from the Venezuela WBC win, we won at an absurd rate. Still had the worry about playoff mini choking, but every part of our lineup from batters and pitchers were all so good.

Best thing for me about this is we were the best regular season team, best in the playoffs, and considered deserving and the clear winner. Doesn’t happen too often and that makes it feel a lot better than just getting hot at the right time.

I just love baseball and love being able to follow a team and can’t believe they won.