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Welcome to Pardon My Take, presented by DraftKings. The crown is yours. Today is Friday, October 16th, and for the first time since 1982, the Milwaukee Brewers are on to the World Series. I thought we probably have to start with that. A sweep of the Los Angeles Dodgers. A shit-kicking, although the Brewers, they're so good that they trailed in every single game, and basically scored all their runs the fifth inning on.

They're the best team in baseball all year, and they proved it, and they absolutely decimated the Dodgers. They were down 4-0. They're like, Shohei finally did something, and the Dodgers just keep chipping away, or the Brewers keep chipping away, and they're going back to the World Series for the first time in what, how many years is that?

43 years?

Zach Burns (3:15)

Is that it? Holy shit.

Dan Katz (3:16)

That's a long time, but yeah. Congrats to the Brewers. I don't like the Brewers, but I have to respect them because they play such good baseball, and I would say that the biggest moments in the, did they name an MVP? I didn't even see of the series. The biggest moment, or the MVP should go to Jake Bauer because Jake Bauer had two at bats in this series that broke the Dodgers will. He is, he's the MVP. Okay.

The at bat against Yamamoto in game two when he went 12 pitches, basically chased him after two and a third. And then the at bat on Wednesday night against Blake Snell, who had been pitching his balls off, was at like nine strikeouts.

He just completely like grinded him 11 pitches, hits a go ahead home run. That guy was nails. He was everything the Brewers are. They just get clutch hits and they're so disciplined and great at the plate.

Zach Burns (4:13)

So the Brewers, I think most people that are unaffiliated in a rivalry against the Brewers are probably rooting really hard against the Dodgers in the series. I think it's awesome for baseball. I think it's great. It was great to see them get swept. And the Brewers are everything that I think most people say that they want in a baseball team now. Yeah. Because the knock against the direction baseball has been going for the last 10 years is you strike out, you hit home runs. And that's the way that you do it with the Brewers.

They knew that they're not going to be able to compete to get like the top name power hitting free agents. So what the Brewers did was they threw all their money into analytics.

So like they saw where does your dollar go furthest? And it's not like they were doing the money ball thing where they're like, oh, let's get guys that get on base. They actually decided there's no salary cap in terms of how many nerds that we can hire. So they hired all the smart guys, as many smart guys as you can. They were like scouring blogs to figure out, okay, who is next level thinkers when it comes to finding some advantages that we can get. And they spent all their money figuring out where we can get these little advantages. They're one of the only teams that coaches intentionally hitting opposite field singles. Yeah. Opposite field doubles. Yeah.