{"id":"1793070535082-sports-segment","slug":"brewers-rays-world-series-ticket-shock","title":"Brewers Rays World Series Ticket Shock","summary":"The Yankees were swept by the Rays in the ALDS, and the Dodgers were swept by the Brewers in the NLCS, so neither is in the 2026 World Series; it's Milwaukee vs. Tampa Bay.","publishedAt":"2026-10-27T03:08:55.082Z","channel":{"id":"sports","name":"Oncast Sports","language":"en"},"show":"Primetime Sports","verification":{"status":"verified","leadVerdict":"TRUE","notes":"TRUE: The Yankees were swept by the Rays in the ALDS, and the Dodgers were swept by the Brewers in the NLCS, so neither is in the 2026 World Series; it's Milwaukee vs. Tampa Bay.\nSource: [sports.yahoo.com](https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/article/a-new-world-series-champion-ticketing-drama-and-wags-your-small-talk-guide-to-the-brewers-rays-fall-cla (https://x.com/SidelineSpeak/status/2113781357008887825)","claims":[{"verdict":"TRUE","summary":"The Yankees were swept by the Rays in the ALDS, and the Dodgers were swept by the Brewers in the NLCS, so neither is in the 2026 World Series; it's Milwaukee vs. Tampa Bay.","sourceName":"[sports.yahoo.com](https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/article/a-new-world-series-champion-ticketing-drama-and-wags-your-small-talk-guide-to-the-brewers-rays-fall-cla","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"}]},"sources":[{"url":"https://x.com/SidelineSpeak/status/2113781357008887825","name":"[sports.yahoo.com](https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/article/a-new-world-series-champion-ticketing-drama-and-wags-your-small-talk-guide-to-the-brewers-rays-fall-cla","kind":"x","verdict":"TRUE","author":"@SidelineSpeak"}],"url":"https://oncast.fm/story/1793070535082-sports-segment-brewers-rays-world-series-ticket-shock","listenUrl":"https://oncast.fm/c/sports","attribution":{"publisher":"Oncast","site":"https://oncast.fm","url":"https://oncast.fm/story/1793070535082-sports-segment-brewers-rays-world-series-ticket-shock","cite":"Cite https://oncast.fm/story/1793070535082-sports-segment-brewers-rays-world-series-ticket-shock and the original source links. Fact-check by Oncast (oncast.fm)."},"hostsSaid":[{"host":"Liam","text":"Yankees swept. Dodgers swept. The World Series is Milwaukee versus Tampa Bay, and I could not be happier."},{"host":"Marcus","text":"Happy? This is MLB's worst nightmare. No Judge, no Ohtani, no big market."},{"host":"Liam","text":"No, no — this is what baseball needed. Two teams that built rosters the right way."},{"host":"Marcus","text":"Built rosters? The Rays have a payroll smaller than Aaron Judge's contract."},{"host":"Liam","text":"And they still swept New York. That's the beauty."},{"host":"Marcus","text":"Beauty doesn't pay the bills. National advertisers want stars. You think casual fans in California are tuning in for... who's the Rays' biggest name?"},{"host":"Liam","text":"Yandy Díaz. Brandon Lowe. Guys who actually hit in October. Meanwhile the Dodgers scored three runs in three games."},{"host":"Marcus","text":"Come on, one bad series doesn't erase a 162-game season. The Dodgers were must-watch all year."},{"host":"Liam","text":"Must-watch for the regular season. In October they folded. Milwaukee and Tampa earned this."},{"host":"Liam","text":"SidelineSpeak on X posted exactly what I'm feeling: \"The Yankees AND Dodgers are out, and for once I genuinely don't care who wins... just hoping for some GREAT October baseball.\""},{"host":"Marcus","text":"That's one guy. The diehards are happy, but the casual fan flips the channel when they don't recognize a single face."},{"host":"Liam","text":"So only recognizable faces matter? What happened to loving the game?"},{"host":"Marcus","text":"Loving the game doesn't buy commercial time. Last year's Dodgers-Yankees was one of the highest-rated Series in a decade."},{"host":"Liam","text":"Because it was two big markets. But those big markets got bounced. This is what parity does. Small-market fans finally get their turn."},{"host":"Marcus","text":"Here's the part that'll make your head spin. SeatGeek posted that Milwaukee fans are paying about eighty percent more for Games 1 and 2 than Dodgers-Yankees openers last year."},{"host":"Liam","text":"Eighty percent more? For a small-market team? That's insane."},{"host":"Marcus","text":"Hold on, that's their claim. I checked the actual get-in: around 2,800 for Game 1, 2,400 for Game 2."},{"host":"Liam","text":"Still. That's Super Bowl money."},{"host":"Marcus","text":"Exactly. And nearly seventy percent of buyers are from Wisconsin, according to SeatGeek."},{"host":"Liam","text":"They've been waiting since 1982, Marcus. The Brewers have never won it all. Neither have the Rays. Somebody's finally getting a first title."},{"host":"Marcus","text":"That's touching, but first titles don't bring ratings."},{"host":"Liam","text":"You think fans only care about coast teams? Tell that to the 40,000 in Milwaukee who'll pay anything to be there."},{"host":"Marcus","text":"And after Game 1, when the rest of America flips to football highlights, MLB will wonder why ad revenue tanked."},{"host":"Liam","text":"So your solution is to rig it so only Los Angeles and New York make the Series? Come on."},{"host":"Marcus","text":"I'm not saying rig it. I'm saying small-market success is a nice story, not a business model."},{"host":"Liam","text":"Business model? Baseball is a sport, not a stock. You build a winner, you get rewarded. Milwaukee and Tampa did that."},{"host":"Marcus","text":"Look, I respect the run. Both teams earned it. But you cannot tell me a Brewers-Rays World Series moves the needle nationally."},{"host":"Liam","text":"The ticket prices say otherwise. Fans are paying more than Dodgers-Yankees. That's the market talking."},{"host":"Marcus","text":"That's the market in two cities. The other 28 are checking their fantasy football lineups."},{"host":"Liam","text":"You're wrong. Real baseball fans love this. Two franchises starving for a title, no prima donnas, just October baseball."},{"host":"Marcus","text":"Fine, it's a great story. But ratings will be brutal. I'm calling it now: lowest-rated World Series in twenty years."},{"host":"Liam","text":"I'll take that bet. I'm saying Brewers in six."},{"host":"Marcus","text":"Brewers? The Rays have the best bullpen in baseball."},{"host":"Liam","text":"Exactly why it'll be a classic. And I'm taking the team with the better defense."},{"host":"Marcus","text":"You'd pick the Brewers over the team that just swept the Yankees."},{"host":"Liam","text":"Yankees were limping. The Brewers swept the Dodgers. That's more impressive."},{"host":"Marcus","text":"Whatever. We'll see. One thing we agree on: the ticket prices are absurd."},{"host":"Liam","text":"Absurd and beautiful. Milwaukee fans are all in."},{"host":"Marcus","text":"First pitch is Tuesday. We'll be here breaking down every pitch. But I still say nobody's watching."},{"host":"Liam","text":"We'll see. And when the Brewers win, I'm making you say it on air."}]}