{"id":"1792880767298-sports-segment","slug":"brewers-fans-break-the-bank","title":"Brewers Fans Break the Bank","summary":"The Yankees and Dodgers are out of the 2026 postseason, and the World Series is set between the Brewers and Rays, as confirmed by ESPN's coverage of Milwaukee's return to the World Series.\n\nThe Brewers are in the World Series after a long absence, and ESPN's story confirms Milwaukee fans celebrated a Game 1 win after waiting decades for a World Series appearance.","publishedAt":"2026-10-24T22:26:07.298Z","channel":{"id":"sports","name":"Oncast Sports","language":"en"},"show":"The Pregame","verification":{"status":"verified","leadVerdict":"TRUE","notes":"TRUE: The Yankees and Dodgers are out of the 2026 postseason, and the World Series is set between the Brewers and Rays, as confirmed by ESPN's coverage of Milwaukee's return to the World Series.\nSource: [espn.com](https://www.espn.com/mlb/story//id/50265668/milwaukee-brewers-world-series-party) (https://x.com/SidelineSpeak/status/2113781357008887825)\n\nTRUE: The Brewers are in the World Series after a long absence, and ESPN's story confirms Milwaukee fans celebrated a Game 1 win after waiting decades for a World Series appearance.\nSource: [espn.com](https://www.espn.com/mlb/story//id/50265668/milwaukee-brewers-world-series-party) NAMES: MLB = Major League Baseball; Guardians = Cleveland's MLB tea (https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/50265668/milwaukee-brewers-world-series-party)","claims":[{"verdict":"TRUE","summary":"The Yankees and Dodgers are out of the 2026 postseason, and the World Series is set between the Brewers and Rays, as confirmed by ESPN's coverage of Milwaukee's return to the World Series.","sourceName":"[espn.com](https://www.espn.com/mlb/story//id/50265668/milwaukee-brewers-world-series-party)","sourceUrl":"https://x.com/SidelineSpeak/status/2113781357008887825","claim":"The Yankees AND Dodgers are out, and for once I genuinely don’t care who wins the World Series 😂 I don’t particularly like either team, but I’m just hoping for some GREAT October baseball!! #worldseries #postseason #raysup #brewers #mlb","author":"@SidelineSpeak"},{"verdict":"TRUE","summary":"The Brewers are in the World Series after a long absence, and ESPN's story confirms Milwaukee fans celebrated a Game 1 win after waiting decades for a World Series appearance.","sourceName":"[espn.com](https://www.espn.com/mlb/story//id/50265668/milwaukee-brewers-world-series-party) NAMES: MLB = Major League Baseball; Guardians = Cleveland's MLB tea","sourceUrl":"https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/50265668/milwaukee-brewers-world-series-party","claim":"Tailgates, watch parties and texts to Mom: Inside Milwaukee's joyous return to the World Series - Milwaukee fans waited decades to see their team in the World Series. And in Game 1, the Brewers -- and the party -- didn't disappoint.","author":"ESPN"}]},"sources":[{"url":"https://x.com/SidelineSpeak/status/2113781357008887825","name":"[espn.com](https://www.espn.com/mlb/story//id/50265668/milwaukee-brewers-world-series-party)","kind":"x","verdict":"TRUE","author":"@SidelineSpeak"},{"url":"https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/50265668/milwaukee-brewers-world-series-party","name":"[espn.com](https://www.espn.com/mlb/story//id/50265668/milwaukee-brewers-world-series-party) NAMES: MLB = Major League Baseball; Guardians = Cleveland's MLB tea","kind":"news","verdict":"TRUE","author":"ESPN"}],"url":"https://oncast.fm/story/1792880767298-sports-segment-brewers-fans-break-the-bank","listenUrl":"https://oncast.fm/c/sports","attribution":{"publisher":"Oncast","site":"https://oncast.fm","url":"https://oncast.fm/story/1792880767298-sports-segment-brewers-fans-break-the-bank","cite":"Cite https://oncast.fm/story/1792880767298-sports-segment-brewers-fans-break-the-bank and the original source links. Fact-check by Oncast (oncast.fm)."},"hostsSaid":[{"host":"Liam","text":"Brewers fans just made the Dodgers-Yankees ticket prices look like a bargain bin."},{"host":"Marcus","text":"Of course they did. Milwaukee waited forty years for this."},{"host":"Liam","text":"SeatGeek says World Series Games 1 and 2 in Milwaukee are going for about 80 percent more than last year's Dodgers-Yankees openers."},{"host":"Marcus","text":"Big market, schmig market. The Brewers faithful are emptying their wallets."},{"host":"Liam","text":"Nearly 70 percent of buyers are from Wisconsin. They're not selling to tourists, they're selling to the guy who's been screaming at his TV since '82."},{"host":"Marcus","text":"And you know what? He earned it. That team just knocked out the Dodgers."},{"host":"Liam","text":"The Dodgers AND the Yankees are gone. SidelineSpeak posted he doesn't even care who wins now."},{"host":"Marcus","text":"That's the sound of a man whose bracket is dust and now he's pretending to enjoy baseball."},{"host":"Liam","text":"Oh come on. Everyone outside New York and LA is thrilled. You want another Dodgers-Yankees snoozefest?"},{"host":"Marcus","text":"I want the two best teams, period. But I'll give Milwaukee this: they played Game 1 like a team possessed."},{"host":"Liam","text":"ESPN's got the story — tailgates, watch parties, texts to Mom. These people partied through a WIN."},{"host":"Marcus","text":"Forty years of waiting, and the first World Series game back is a victory. I'd probably text my mom too."},{"host":"Liam","text":"The Rays have their work cut out. Tampa's got the pitching, but that crowd in Milwaukee is a weapon."},{"host":"Marcus","text":"Crowd's worth a run a game in October, minimum. Trust me."},{"host":"Liam","text":"You played in front of crowds that loud?"},{"host":"Marcus","text":"I played in front of crowds that WISHED they were that loud. There's a difference."},{"host":"Liam","text":"Fair enough. Speaking of postseason chaos, college football is having an identity crisis."},{"host":"Marcus","text":"You're gonna have to explain that one. I thought we were talking baseball."},{"host":"Liam","text":"Half of X is asking if college football just turned into March Madness. Newsweek posted it, fans are posting it."},{"host":"Marcus","text":"Because of the upsets, right? Teams nobody saw coming."},{"host":"Liam","text":"Exactly. College Football Zone posted that college basketball is awesome, March Madness is incredible, but college football is NOT college basketball."},{"host":"Marcus","text":"He's not wrong. The committee selects by opinion, not data. It's always been a beauty contest."},{"host":"Liam","text":"Duke Dog Burner says the solution is analytical rankings — Q1, Q2, Q3, Q4 wins, like basketball uses."},{"host":"Marcus","text":"Oh, I hate that. You can't reduce football to spreadsheets. It's a sport of momentum, injuries, weather."},{"host":"Liam","text":"And basketball isn't? The quadrant system makes the tournament MORE fair, not less."},{"host":"Marcus","text":"The college football playoff expanding solved the biggest fairness problem. Now you're telling me the ranking system is broken too?"},{"host":"Liam","text":"I'm telling you that when a 9-3 team gets left out because some analyst had a bad lunch, fans notice."},{"host":"Marcus","text":"That's the sport! It's supposed to be argued about. You think the analytics won't have their own biases?"},{"host":"Liam","text":"It's not PERFECT. But it's better than 'the eye test' from a committee that's watched three games this year."},{"host":"Marcus","text":"You want a computer to tell you who wins before they play. That's not football, that's accounting."},{"host":"Liam","text":"I want the RIGHT teams in the playoff, not the most popular ones. If data does that, fine."},{"host":"Marcus","text":"Data didn't see TCU get boat-raced two years ago. The committee's gut did."},{"host":"Liam","text":"And the data didn't see Boise State beat Oklahoma in 2007. That's the point — nobody has it perfect."},{"host":"Marcus","text":"So we agree, then?"},{"host":"Liam","text":"No! I'm saying analytics are less wrong. You're saying feelings are less wrong."},{"host":"Marcus","text":"I'll take a room of football coaches over a Python script any day, Liam."},{"host":"Liam","text":"See, and I'll take the script. If it gets the right four teams in, who cares how?"},{"host":"Marcus","text":"Fine. Agree to disagree. But if your analytics ever sends a two-loss SEC team to the four-seed, we riot."},{"host":"Liam","text":"Deal. Now, one more baseball note before we wrap."},{"host":"Marcus","text":"I hope it's not another Cleveland podcast promo. Those guys posted twice about the Guardians falling."},{"host":"Liam","text":"It's not. But SidelineSpeak said something interesting — he's just hoping for great October baseball."},{"host":"Marcus","text":"For once, I agree with him. Brewers vs. Rays? Nobody circled that in March."},{"host":"Liam","text":"Nobody, and that's why October matters. The regular season is the resume, the postseason is the interview."},{"host":"Marcus","text":"And Milwaukee just aced their first interview. Tampa's got to respond in Game 2."}]}