October 5, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n\u201cI just want to ask this question: we\u2019re talking about mindset, coming into the series, it seems like the whole world, all they are talking about is the Los Angeles Dodgers going for a three-peat,\u201d Jeter noted. \u201cAnd you guys sort of just seem to fly under the radar. Your mindset, your mentality, is it you guys want to play the spoiler? Or you\u2019re just not necessarily thinking about the Dodgers? You\u2019re just out there trying to prove to the rest of the world that you have the best team in baseball?\u201d<\/p>\n
What a strange and clunky question. Is Jeter really asking Harris about playing spoiler two games into the NLDS? And does Jeter really think the Braves are just here to play spoiler? \u201cJust here to play spoiler\u201d means the Braves can\u2019t win a championship of their own; they\u2019re just trying to keep the Dodgers from winning their third in a row. Which is ridiculous. Of course the Braves are thinking about winning their own title, not just playing defense to prevent the Dodgers from winning.<\/p>\n
Maybe Jeter just doesn\u2019t know what \u201cplaying spoiler\u201d means because he was always going for a championship with the Yankees. But you can only imagine what Jeter would have been thinking if Mike Francesa or Chris Russo asked him about playing spoiler during any of his playoff runs with the Yankees. Although it probably would have sounded similar to the Jeterian answer Harris gave.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Atlanta Braves might not be expected to beat the Los Angeles Dodgers, but Derek Jeter has to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":822592,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2394],"tags":[78932,95634,191,46,4166,5,192,6954,57,661,4],"class_list":["post-822591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-atlanta-braves","tag-2026-mlb-playoffs","tag-2026-nlds","tag-atlanta","tag-atlanta-braves","tag-atlantabraves","tag-baseball","tag-braves","tag-derek-jeter","tag-los-angeles-dodgers","tag-michael-harris-ii","tag-mlb"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/117391487538333359","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/822591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=822591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/822591\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/822592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=822591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=822591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=822591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}