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Zach Crizer
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Baseball writer helping fans fan smarter. Read and subscribe to The Bandwagon: Bandwagon.ghost.io

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World Series Game 4 gave us an alternate plane, where the Rays and Brewers have to sit together with seeds of hope and doubt, for at least a matter of hours.

I ranked the plays that are living in limbo — somewhere between 2004 Big Papi and 2024 Volpe. bandwagon.ghost.io/world-series...
The Limbo Plays
Hope and doubt mingle in World Series Game 4
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October 28, 2026 at 4:32 PM
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Shane Drohan was simply too impossible a Sporcle answer to get the last out.
October 28, 2026 at 4:26 AM
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Alright I’ll admit it: I just checked whether Brad Paisley sang the national anthem tonight.
October 28, 2026 at 4:01 AM
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Alright, there's a first I didn't account for.
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The @Brewers are the first team in MLB history to have 7 consecutive batters get a hit in a postseason game.

🐦 https://x.com/OptaSTATS/status/2114899335108309165
October 27, 2026 at 2:02 AM
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The Beer Pong offense.
zcrizer.bsky.social Zach Crizer @zcrizer.bsky.social · 1d
Single, single, double, double, single, double.
October 27, 2026 at 1:50 AM
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Single, single, double, double, single, double.
October 27, 2026 at 1:49 AM
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Power hour for the Brewers.
cyrthogg.bsky.social Curt Hogg @cyrthogg.bsky.social · 1d
The Brewers just scored six runs in a span of 12 pitches.
October 27, 2026 at 1:40 AM
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there are so many fun predictions here (please read the whole thing) but this could be an Mike Blowers level call if it comes true
First World Series with all games decided by one run
October 26, 2026 at 5:26 PM
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Checking in on a couple notable potential firsts:

ABS challenge: ✅
104 mph pitch: Pending (record velocity yes, 104 no)
No starter completing 6: Still in play
All games decided by 1 run: Still in play!

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First of its kind: A World Series preview
The Brewers, the Rays, and the possibilities
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October 26, 2026 at 5:29 PM
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Go read this @baumann.bsky.social story that really cuts at the heart of why the Brewers and Rays are here, at why they’re The Brewers and The Rays and other teams aren’t.

It’s not a secret data weapon It’s a lot of secret human weapons. blogs.fangraphs.com/the-brewers-...
The Brewers, the Rays, and the Pumping of Tires
The key to accessing an athlete’s talent and maximizing their skill turns out to be a little persuasion and a truckload of positivity.
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October 26, 2026 at 12:54 PM
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There is shrimp content. There is pie in the sky content. There is bunt content, because legally there is required to be bunt content.

Not really, but maybe? bandwagon.ghost.io/firsts-mlb-2...
First walk-off bunt without an error involved There has been a walk-off bunt, two actually. The most recent was in 1969, when a Mets sacrifice bunt turned into a throwing error and a run and a win. An earlier similar instance came in 1914. This first is about the bunt winning the game on its own merits. (For the record, there has also not been a late-inning go-ahead bunt of any sort other than the previously mentioned, error-empowered two.) Bunts are a little bit back in vogue, because athleticism is fun, speed is fun, and it’s hard to score. Look under every rock, right? The Rays and Brewers look under every rock. These two teams led MLB in bunt hits in 2026, with the Rays first at 49 and the Brewers second at 32.
October 22, 2026 at 10:12 PM
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World Series preview. First of its kind.

Read The Bandwagon. 👀 bandwagon.ghost.io/firsts-mlb-2...
First of its kind: A World Series preview
The Brewers, the Rays, and the possibilities
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October 23, 2026 at 5:38 PM
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The Bandwagon preview of this World Series is about things we've never seen before, about things we might see in Brewers-Rays.

It's about firsts. bandwagon.ghost.io/firsts-mlb-2...
First of its kind: A World Series preview
The Brewers, the Rays, and the possibilities
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October 22, 2026 at 10:09 PM
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The Bandwagon preview of this World Series is about things we've never seen before, about things we might see in Brewers-Rays.

It's about firsts. bandwagon.ghost.io/firsts-mlb-2...
First of its kind: A World Series preview
The Brewers, the Rays, and the possibilities
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October 22, 2026 at 10:09 PM
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The spy drama “Slow Horses” has never reached the breakout status of fellow Apple TV series “Ted Lasso” or “Severance,” despite being, in Inkoo Kang’s estimation, the streaming site’s best offering by a mile. www.newyorker.com/culture/on-t...
“Slow Horses,” Apple TV’s Best Show, Retains Its Pungent Relevance
The spy drama “Slow Horses” has never reached the breakout status of fellow Apple TV series “Ted Lasso” or “Severance,” despite being, in Inkoo Kang’s estimation, the streaming site’s best offering by a mile.
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October 22, 2026 at 2:04 AM
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The Rays and Junior Caminero turned winning the pennant into professional wrestling.

It rocked. bandwagon.ghost.io/rayfabe-rays...
Rayfabe
The Rays cut a promo.
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October 20, 2026 at 2:02 PM
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Read this
zcrizer.bsky.social Zach Crizer @zcrizer.bsky.social · 8d
The Rays and Junior Caminero turned winning the pennant into professional wrestling.

It rocked. bandwagon.ghost.io/rayfabe-rays...
Rayfabe
The Rays cut a promo.
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October 20, 2026 at 4:53 PM
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Or, why the Rays' amped up charisma on a postseason stage could alter the future.

📬 The Bandwagon is free to read, and very fun to support. bandwagon.ghost.io/rayfabe-rays...
What little I know about professional wrestling, I have absorbed accidentally. But the final two frames of the ALCS were unmistakable. A haymaking blow from a main character, full minutes of time spent celebrating and heralding that split-second achievement, a rapid series of barely believable events rendering that triumph essentially moot, a new haymaker thrown, a coronation, a promo cut on the microphone. Maybe it’s the sheer size of Caminero and Diaz. Maybe it’s the color pop of the Devil Rays alternate uniforms Tampa has adopted for this run. Maybe it’s the freezer-aisle-at-Costco lighting of Tropicana Field. This baseball game became pro wrestling. And that felt good, actually, felt right. Tampa Bay has fielded successful teams many, many times without necessarily filling the rafters at the poorly placed dome in St. Petersburg, and often without inspiring more admiration than what you’d offer for a particularly onerous mathematical advancement. The Rays’ deep postseason runs, though, have come with extra park-adjusted oomph that animates their excellence — a sort of lie that amplifies the truth. What I’ve come to understand as kayfabe.
October 20, 2026 at 2:08 PM
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The Rays and Junior Caminero turned winning the pennant into professional wrestling.

It rocked. bandwagon.ghost.io/rayfabe-rays...
Rayfabe
The Rays cut a promo.
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October 20, 2026 at 2:02 PM
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If the baseball thing doesn’t work out he’s got a real future as a mall Santa.
keithlaw.bsky.social Keith Law @keithlaw.bsky.social · 8d
I feel like Drew Rasmussen should use less rouge.
October 20, 2026 at 1:20 AM
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Have determined, with the help of these Cleveland Guardians, that the second inning is the most infuriating inning for mid-inning pitching changes.

Thanks, I guess.
October 20, 2026 at 12:50 AM
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The Brewers are a sharp baseball-game-winning instrument, not a pawn in a billionaire's chess game.

The Bandwagon, on pennant-winning team that means more than it should have to, and less than it deserves.
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The Brewers had the means to end the Dodgers
Did you see the Brewers for what they are?
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October 16, 2026 at 7:38 PM
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I love what the Brewers are doing. I wish it weren't playing out attached to a disingenuous puppet show. bandwagon.ghost.io/the-brewers-...
The Dodgers being out is not the good part, not really. To seek a good outcome above all else is to disregard how you get there. Baseball is too hard and too interesting to be squished into the tiny form of a pawn on a chessboard. It isn’t a game of design and construction so much as sculpture. The season sands teams down to an essence that can only be partly planned. It grinds away at players who absorb the losses, then struggle to shape what’s left into something productive.
October 16, 2026 at 7:47 PM
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The Brewers are a sharp baseball-game-winning instrument, not a pawn in a billionaire's chess game.

The Bandwagon, on pennant-winning team that means more than it should have to, and less than it deserves.
bandwagon.ghost.io/the-brewers-...
The Brewers had the means to end the Dodgers
Did you see the Brewers for what they are?
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October 16, 2026 at 7:38 PM
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By the transitive property, now the Brewers are ruining baseball.
October 16, 2026 at 3:20 AM