Welcome to Free Tuesday, where we ask the question: How good ARE these Brewers?
But first, a few quick announcements:
We had a two-fer last week on The Joy of Baseball. Early in the week, Molly and I talked with Joey Votto.
And then, leading into the World Series, we talked with Lindsey Mitchell Storc, sister of Brewers center fielder Garrett Mitchell, about how it feels to root for your best friend.
Super fun stuff. Later today, our latest with Justin Halpern should pop up — like and subscribe!
Also, every Friday (give or take a day or two), our intrepid editor Kathleen collects all sorts of fun baseball links and stories to share. It’s a blast.
You can subscribe to The Joy of Baseball here.
Oh, and while we haven’t finalized it yet, I believe Molly and I will be doing a live video chat during Game 4 of the World Series tonight. Keep an eye out for the email and come join us if you like.
There are only 98 days left until FIFTY SEASONS hits bookshelves. That means I have to decide whether I’m going to narrate the audiobook. I have narrated my last three books, and this one might be the most personal of them all, so a part of me says, yeah, I definitely should narrate it.
Then another part of me remembers: It’s EXHAUSTING to narrate a book. It’s so much more exhausting than you think it will be, and at the end of it I always say, “OK, that’s it, I’m not going to narrate another book.” And then the next book comes along, and amnesia kicks in, and I think: “Oh, it won’t be that hard — all you do is sit there and read your own words. You should definitely do it.”
And then I do it, and I remember, “Oh yeah, that’s so exhausting.”
But, yeah, I’ll probably do it again.
Remember, if you preorder FIFTY SEASONS from Rainy Day Books, I will sign your book and personalize it any way you like. That offer goes until December 15.
With the Brewers apparently steamrolling to their first World Series ever — and we’ll talk in a minute about jinxes and such things — this feels like a good time to ask: Is Milwaukee actually one of the greatest teams in baseball history?
We tend not to think about the Brewers this way for any number of reasons. They are so young. They don't have a player who’s already clinched a spot in the Hall of Fame. They don’t have a star famous enough to host Saturday Night Live (maybe they will after the series). They were a playoff disappointment for years before this season.
But let’s look at this point by point: