World Series thread

[craigharmann]

Go Jays! That's all I've got. I haven't watched a second since the Brewers lost, and I'm OK with that. I just want the Dodgers to lose. 

[MrTPlush]

23 hours ago, Brian said:

LOL not only Yelich, Also: Rhys Hoskins took the Brewers to the cleaners in 2025.  Hoskins could be the biggest slip up of Matt Arnolds career. 

We say this a lot when the Brewers have a flop FA signing…but who was the great alternative? And outside of that alternative, how many other flops would we realistically have targeted too?

His $17mil salary is an eye brow raiser…but then you remember it was for two years. Often times the realistic alternative was spending $17mil less on the payroll. Maybe he was a bad signing, but usually for use that’s FA in a nutshell when you have to spend money on sloppy seconds.

[owbc]

The fans have spoken — more viewers were watching game 3 in the 18th inning than at the start. 

https://x.com/mulvihill79/status/1983687697861620071

[Underachiever]

1 hour ago, MrTPlush said:

We say this a lot when the Brewers have a flop FA signing…but who was the great alternative? And outside of that alternative, how many other flops would we realistically have targeted too?

His $17mil salary is an eye brow raiser…but then you remember it was for two years. Often times the realistic alternative was spending $17mil less on the payroll. Maybe he was a bad signing, but usually for use that’s FA in a nutshell when you have to spend money on sloppy seconds.

If you are saying that it was 17 mil for two years, I don't think that is correct. I think it was 2/$34, with buyouts and other language.

Hoskins didn't work out well. The only alternatives are for Arnold to be perfect or not try. A bad signing like this tends to hamstring the Brewers worse than most organizations, but this group was pretty excited when Rhys signed. Especially the guy whose quote appears in my signature.

https://brewerfanatic.com/forums/topic/41892-brewers-sign-rhys-hoskins/

 

[homer]

24 minutes ago, Underachiever said:

If you are saying that it was 17 mil for two years, I don't think that is correct. I think it was 2/$34, with buyouts and other language.

Hoskins didn't work out well. The only alternatives are for Arnold to be perfect or not try. A bad signing like this tends to hamstring the Brewers worse than most organizations, but this group was pretty excited when Rhys signed. Especially the guy whose quote appears in my signature.

https://brewerfanatic.com/forums/topic/41892-brewers-sign-rhys-hoskins/

 

As an aside, that person hasn't posted once since the day of the Hoskins signing. 

[Brian]

2 hours ago, MrTPlush said:

We say this a lot when the Brewers have a flop FA signing…but who was the great alternative? And outside of that alternative, how many other flops would we realistically have targeted too?

His $17mil salary is an eye brow raiser…but then you remember it was for two years. Often times the realistic alternative was spending $17mil less on the payroll. Maybe he was a bad signing, but usually for use that’s FA in a nutshell when you have to spend money on sloppy seconds.

The great alternative may have been anyone who didn't have a meniscus surgery in his right knee and an ACL tear in his left knee and was 30 years old when he could finally play again.  But he is water under the bridge now and Arnold overall is a very good GM. 

[owbc]

1 hour ago, Brian said:

The great alternative may have been anyone who didn't have a meniscus surgery in his right knee and an ACL tear in his left knee and was 30 years old when he could finally play again.  But he is water under the bridge now and Arnold overall is a very good GM. 

When you scrape the bottom of the barrel with free agency, that's what you get. 

Thankfully we were able to resurrect Vaughn but had we not done that we'd be back in the same situation this offseason looking for a a righty platoon option. And given that guys like Ty France and Donovan Solano managed to stay on MLB rosters for most of 2025, the options are not good. 

 

[igor67]

Even though it didn't turn out that way, it's perfectly reasonable based on the info available to believe that Rhys was more likely to hit well enough to be an asset than Vaughn. I don't mind that they tried Rhys and it didn't work out, despite being a big salary number for us it was done in the context of not having good young alternatives, so spending to fill that hole made sense. It didn't work out so it goes on the overall scorecard as a loss, but not a huge one.

[Brian]

18 minutes ago, owbc said:

When you scrape the bottom of the barrel with free agency, that's what you get. 

Thankfully we were able to resurrect Vaughn but had we not done that we'd be back in the same situation this offseason looking for a a righty platoon option. And given that guys like Ty France and Donovan Solano managed to stay on MLB rosters for most of 2025, the options are not good. 

 

OK WS only.

[Team Canada]

Let's keep this on the World Series, not Brewers players.

Toward that end:

"The Toronto Blue Jays' 6-2 victory over the Los Angeles Dodgers in Game 4 of the World Series on Tuesday night averaged 14.81 million viewers on Fox, Fox Deportes and streaming, according to Nielsen.

That made it the most-watched game of this year's Fall Classic and the second most-viewed Game 4 since 2018. Last year's fourth game between the Dodgers and New York Yankees averaged 16.28 million."

https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/46786703/blue-jays-game-4-win-dodgers-draws-1481m-us-viewers

[owbc]

46 minutes ago, Team Canada said:

Let's keep this on the World Series, not Brewers players.

Toward that end:

"The Toronto Blue Jays' 6-2 victory over the Los Angeles Dodgers in Game 4 of the World Series on Tuesday night averaged 14.81 million viewers on Fox, Fox Deportes and streaming, according to Nielsen.

That made it the most-watched game of this year's Fall Classic and the second most-viewed Game 4 since 2018. Last year's fourth game between the Dodgers and New York Yankees averaged 16.28 million."

https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/46786703/blue-jays-game-4-win-dodgers-draws-1481m-us-viewers

Hopefully Manfred is taking notes! People will watch a compelling series even if it’s not two big US markets against each other. 

[RobertCrawley]

A couple of outstanding breaking balls on display tonight.

[treego14]

I am cheering for Paul Molitor!

[yourout]

How about a Joe Carter like moment.

[yourout]

Wow......that was some bad baseball right there.

[RobertCrawley]

2 hours ago, yourout said:

Wow......that was some bad baseball right there.

2nd and 3rd with no outs in the bottom of the ninth.

[owbc]

For whatever reason this World Series has captured the neutral sports viewer. There are going to be a lot of eyes on the game tonight, it’s surely going to be the most watched baseball game since game 7 in 2016 and possibly longer. 

[RobertCrawley]

1 hour ago, owbc said:

For whatever reason this World Series has captured the neutral sports viewer. There are going to be a lot of eyes on the game tonight, it’s surely going to be the most watched baseball game since game 7 in 2016 and possibly longer. 

Not to get into it, but part of the reason is the current political situation. It will be interesting to compare the viewership to the Super Bowl, which was around 128 million viewers. 

[TURBO]

35 minutes ago, RobertCrawley said:

Not to get into it, but part of the reason is the current political situation. It will be interesting to compare the viewership to the Super Bowl, which was around 128 million viewers. 

Please excuse my ignorance, but what is the political situation that has more people tuning in?  Seriously, I don't know...

[RobertCrawley]

1 hour ago, TURBO said:

Please excuse my ignorance, but what is the political situation that has more people tuning in?  Seriously, I don't know...

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/25/sports/baseball/blue-jays-dodgers-trump-canada-us.html

[TURBO]

1 hour ago, RobertCrawley said:

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/25/sports/baseball/blue-jays-dodgers-trump-canada-us.html

Nah, that has nothing to do with anything as far as viewership.  I think you might just be looking for a reason to politicize the WS.

People are watching because it's baseball...

[RobertCrawley]

3 minutes ago, TURBO said:

Nah, that has nothing to do with anything as far as viewership.  I think you might just be looking for a reason to politicize the WS.

People are watching because it's baseball...

If you say so.

[yourout]

14 hours ago, RobertCrawley said:

2nd and 3rd with no outs in the bottom of the ninth.

I suspect that 9th inning is going to haunt the Blue Jays for a long long time.

When you get a chance to take out the king you better not miss

[RobertCrawley]

2 minutes ago, yourout said:

I suspect that 9th inning is going to haunt the Blue Jays for a long long time.

When you get a chance to take out the king you better not miss

100%

[ReverendBrewmeister]

Bo Bichette knocks out Ohtani in the 3rd inning of Game 7. 

Three-run homer to put Toronto up 3-0. 

Still a lot of game to go, but that's the type of early-ish lead the Blue Jays needed at home.