I began the month with predicting a title after a 4-2 World Series record (though I predicted Judge would come back and carry New York to a pennant) so I’ll stick with that: Brewers in 6.
Like many of you, I’m also surprised by my lack of nerves. There’s definitely a feeling of excitement, and I have seen more than enough playoffs from the Brewers (and Packers) to know how very real the prospect of defeat remains.
But this team looks and sounds like a group that is at the meeting point of confidence, preparation, and experience. This organization has proven itself elite at every level, taken its licks and gone to school on its mistakes, and it’s all coming together at the perfect time.
The Brewers were the best team in baseball nearly all year, are clearly superior to the Rays, and have already proven their mettle against the hottest team as well as what may go down as the greatest assemblage of talent in the history of the sport. For all that, our Brewers are 7-1.
Friends: if they lose, it will be because of the strangeness of baseball, but I’ve never been more convinced of our team’s greatness than I am right now. If they fail, it will hurt, though I can accept it.
But I think we win.