Theo Gerome

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There have been 117 best-of-seven World Series since 1903. In those 117, 25 have seen a team go up 3-0. Those teams are 21-4 in Game Four. None of those series went to six games.

gao!

I was mostly listening on radio on the commute home, and I was legitimately wondering if the Brewers broadcast was piping in noise or editing the levels or something like that, because it sounded like a home crowd for them

guess I gotta start working on my recap article...

Brazil’s results tonight are a big endorsement for the idea that every country should have a second “are you you sure about that” election a couple weeks after the first one for the important stuff

I was rooting for Jackson Chorizo

Looking ahead to Friday, and acknowledging the sample size... Since 2001, LCS and World Series teams with at least five days’ rest and a rest advantage are 5-10 in their first game back.

I've been pretty busy lately, but I wanted to make a post commemorating this year's match-up, now that it's official! www.hotcornerharbor.com/2026/10/Brew...

This is only the 6th time in the 32 postseasons of the Wild Card Era (since 1995) that both 1 seeds reached the World Series World Series Between #1 Seeds Since 1995 1995 Braves/Indians 1999 Yankees/Braves 2013 Red Sox/Cardinals 2020 Dodgers/Rays 2024 Dodgers/Yankees 2026 Brewers/Rays

Brewers/Rays is the 8th World Series between teams that have never won one before 1903 Americans (Red Sox)/Pirates 1905 Giants/Athletics 1906 White Sox/Cubs 1907 Cubs/Tigers 1909 Pirates/Tigers 1920 Indians/Robins (Dodgers) 1980 Phillies/Royals 2026 Brewers/Rays (good idea @mikemedvin.bsky.social)

#1 seed 103 wins vs #1 seed 98 wins with a fanbase guaranteed their first ring ever baseball is, indeed, the best.

And that's the World Series match-up set! Brewers-Rays gives us our fourth-ever All-Expansion Team WS, after 2015, 2019, and 2023 Interesting that each one of those is an entirely different pair of teams, too

We are now officially guaranteed a new World Series match-up! Also, guarantees the end of a pretty substantial drought

Probably a bad thing that the right can come up with a totally nonsense conspiracy theory about James Talarico and journalists have to spend valuable time 3 weeks before the election debunking it instead of covering Paxton actually going to Dubai with his mistress on a trip paid for by a criminal

Relatedly, I believe the earliest “Baseball Is Dying” stories pre-date the World Series

we are seeing some incredible low-ball hits the last few games, what a weird trend

After years of championing "free speech," Texas lawmakers have enabled a dramatic rise of censorship in Texas universities, banning concepts, canceling courses and closing departments seen as "woke," and even using AI bots as censors. All in the name of freedom. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...

Well, you can just mentally cross off the bottom row here now, feeling too lazy to go edit it

cool that MLB owners are gonna do a lockout and cancel part of the season next year purportedly for "if we don't crush player salaries, small markets can't compete!!" when 3 of the final 4 teams this year are Tampa, Cleveland and Milwaukee.

so the final four are * a team that has never won the World Series in its 28 seasons * a team that has never won the World Series in its 57 seasons * a team that hasn’t won the World Series in 77 seasons * Dodgers

Since we had a spate of eliminations today, an update on the World Series Rematch chances: it's gotten pretty straightforward. Any Dodgers World Series pairing would be a re-match, and any Brewers one would be new

Since we had a spate of eliminations today, an update on the World Series Rematch chances: it's gotten pretty straightforward. Any Dodgers World Series pairing would be a re-match, and any Brewers one would be new

It is kind of funny that for 29 teams, referring to something as “the fan interference game” would probably just get blank stares (Cubs is debatable, I guess), but for the Yankees, it’s just “which one?”

“No Way To Prevent This,” Says Only Ballpark Where This Regularly Happens

For some reason, I decided to do my home-bound chores first, meaning I accidentally caught most of the Braves-Dodgers and missed most of the Rays game 😞

The upside of the Dodgers-Braves NLDS is that it at least guarantees we won't have a Dodgers-Braves NLCS. I'm glad this is the series confined to the Buck-Smoltz shadow realm, at least

Flipped over to Astros radio broadcast as soon as the Phillies-Braves ended. Was kind of dreading leaving such an exciting game for The Horrors, and it seems like that was justified

Batting Around – White Sox vs Astros ALWC Series Preview and Predictions The Launch Angle Staff weighs in on how they anticipate the AL Wild Card Series between the Chicago White Sox and Houston Astros will unfold.

Since he’s in the news, bringing this up again

Going to have a busy week, but I managed to finish my annual playoff trivia column to mark the end of the MLB regular season! www.hotcornerharbor.com/2026/09/2026...

The @Astros had just a 6.9% chance to make the postseason on May 20th 😮 Their #Postseason journey begins Tuesday!

Forget the lottery. This is how we should determine the top ten draft slots.

Your American League Worst Champion Houston Astros

SCHN broadcast basically confirming this lol

can't believe we're getting a World Series rematch this October

The idea of having a clinching celebration in Sacramento is just very funny. I can't imagine that's a particularly nice away clubhouse

Y'know, I hadn't really kept up with Dean Kremer after the Orioles traded him. Glad to see he's turned it around in Minnesota (especially today!), but also a little frustrating to see, feels like that happens to ex-O's pitchers a lot...

Intentionally Walking Walker to get to Lucas Spence is a hilarious bit, love to see that blow up!