{"id":834462,"date":"2026-10-21T09:18:22","date_gmt":"2026-10-21T09:18:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/834462\/"},"modified":"2026-10-21T09:18:22","modified_gmt":"2026-10-21T09:18:22","slug":"screw-the-haters-brewers-rays-could-be-an-all-time-world-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/834462\/","title":{"rendered":"Screw the Haters. Brewers-Rays Could Be an All-Time World Series."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"image-link image2 is-viewable-img can-restack\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/$s_!ISoq!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4c03edce-f4fa-46b4-8688-5c93aedd8eb5_2741x2048.png\" data-component-name=\"Image2ToDOM\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/https:\/\/substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com\/public\/images\/4c03edce-f4fa-46b4-8688-5c93aedd8eb5_2741.jpeg\" width=\"1456\" height=\"1088\" data-attrs=\"{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com\/public\/images\/4c03edce-f4fa-46b4-8688-5c93aedd8eb5_2741x2048.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:1088,&quot;width&quot;:1456,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:4316291,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image\/png&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:false,&quot;topImage&quot;:true,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/neilpaine.substack.com\/i\/220972491?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4c03edce-f4fa-46b4-8688-5c93aedd8eb5_2741x2048.png&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}\" class=\"sizing-normal\" alt=\"\"   fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>With the Tampa Bay Rays joining the Milwaukee Brewers in the 2026 World Series, defeating the Cleveland Guardians in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/game\/_\/gameId\/401908028\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Game 6 of the ALCS<\/a> Monday night, we have a battle between two teams who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/leagues\/MLB-standings.shtml\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">combined to win 201 games<\/a> during the regular season. It\u2019s the sixth time in the Division Series era that No. 1 seeds in both the AL and NL met up in the Fall Classic. Together, the Brewers and Rays are 14-3 in the postseason and they are clearly the two best and most deserving teams of the 2026 MLB season.<\/p>\n<p>Naturally, though, the TV-ratings hand-wringing <a href=\"https:\/\/biz.chosun.com\/en\/en-sports\/2026\/10\/16\/KUDJDTCWFNGH5IQ2EWCECSDNNM\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">has already started<\/a> around this matchup. \u201cIt a nightmare World Series for the TV executives with two small-markets \u2013 including one which failed to even sell out several games of the postseason,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/mlb\/columnist\/bob-nightengale\/2026\/10\/19\/rays-brewers-world-series-payrolls-schedule\/92340530007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">wrote USA Today\u2019s Bob Nightengale<\/a>, \u201cthat could lead to the lowest ratings in World Series history.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Luckily, I\u2019m not a TV executive \u2014 and, most likely, neither are you \u2014 so I don\u2019t give a shit whether this World Series delivers record-low ratings, record-high ratings, or anything in between. What I care about is the baseball, and the baseball should be immaculate between these two great teams.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With the Tampa Bay Rays joining the Milwaukee Brewers in the 2026 World Series, defeating the Cleveland Guardians&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":834463,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2401],"tags":[5,136,843,59,4280,4],"class_list":["post-834462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-milwaukee-brewers","tag-baseball","tag-brewers","tag-milwaukee","tag-milwaukee-brewers","tag-milwaukeebrewers","tag-mlb"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/117478156496399779","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/834462","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=834462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/834462\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/834463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=834462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=834462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=834462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}