LBrewers fans just made the Dodgers-Yankees ticket prices look like a bargain bin.
MOf course they did. Milwaukee waited forty years for this.
LSeatGeek says World Series Games 1 and 2 in Milwaukee are going for about 80 percent more than last year's Dodgers-Yankees openers.
MBig market, schmig market. The Brewers faithful are emptying their wallets.
LNearly 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.
MAnd you know what? He earned it. That team just knocked out the Dodgers.
LThe Dodgers AND the Yankees are gone. SidelineSpeak posted he doesn't even care who wins now.
MThat's the sound of a man whose bracket is dust and now he's pretending to enjoy baseball.
LOh come on. Everyone outside New York and LA is thrilled. You want another Dodgers-Yankees snoozefest?
MI want the two best teams, period. But I'll give Milwaukee this: they played Game 1 like a team possessed.
LESPN's got the story — tailgates, watch parties, texts to Mom. These people partied through a WIN.
MForty years of waiting, and the first World Series game back is a victory. I'd probably text my mom too.
LThe Rays have their work cut out. Tampa's got the pitching, but that crowd in Milwaukee is a weapon.
MCrowd's worth a run a game in October, minimum. Trust me.
LYou played in front of crowds that loud?
MI played in front of crowds that WISHED they were that loud. There's a difference.
LFair enough. Speaking of postseason chaos, college football is having an identity crisis.
MYou're gonna have to explain that one. I thought we were talking baseball.
LHalf of X is asking if college football just turned into March Madness. Newsweek posted it, fans are posting it.
MBecause of the upsets, right? Teams nobody saw coming.
LExactly. College Football Zone posted that college basketball is awesome, March Madness is incredible, but college football is NOT college basketball.
MHe's not wrong. The committee selects by opinion, not data. It's always been a beauty contest.
LDuke Dog Burner says the solution is analytical rankings — Q1, Q2, Q3, Q4 wins, like basketball uses.
MOh, I hate that. You can't reduce football to spreadsheets. It's a sport of momentum, injuries, weather.
LAnd basketball isn't? The quadrant system makes the tournament MORE fair, not less.
MThe college football playoff expanding solved the biggest fairness problem. Now you're telling me the ranking system is broken too?
LI'm telling you that when a 9-3 team gets left out because some analyst had a bad lunch, fans notice.
MThat's the sport! It's supposed to be argued about. You think the analytics won't have their own biases?
LIt's not PERFECT. But it's better than 'the eye test' from a committee that's watched three games this year.
MYou want a computer to tell you who wins before they play. That's not football, that's accounting.
LI want the RIGHT teams in the playoff, not the most popular ones. If data does that, fine.
MData didn't see TCU get boat-raced two years ago. The committee's gut did.
LAnd the data didn't see Boise State beat Oklahoma in 2007. That's the point — nobody has it perfect.
MSo we agree, then?
LNo! I'm saying analytics are less wrong. You're saying feelings are less wrong.
MI'll take a room of football coaches over a Python script any day, Liam.
LSee, and I'll take the script. If it gets the right four teams in, who cares how?
MFine. Agree to disagree. But if your analytics ever sends a two-loss SEC team to the four-seed, we riot.
LDeal. Now, one more baseball note before we wrap.
MI hope it's not another Cleveland podcast promo. Those guys posted twice about the Guardians falling.
LIt's not. But SidelineSpeak said something interesting — he's just hoping for great October baseball.
MFor once, I agree with him. Brewers vs. Rays? Nobody circled that in March.
LNobody, and that's why October matters. The regular season is the resume, the postseason is the interview.
MAnd Milwaukee just aced their first interview. Tampa's got to respond in Game 2.