The Milwaukee Brewers Are The Obvious, Implausible Champions by Kathryn Xu

The Rays Never Played A Home Game In The World Series by Ray Ratto

The Brewers, World Series champs at last, won it all by staying true to themselves by Ken Rosenthal

I collected a handful of stories from the past week that freshly details the corruption and moral barrenness of our current national leadership, but I set them all aside in favor of far more celebratory words. Outrage can take a pause in this digital space for a moment. Let’s focus on joy.

It has been a pure delight to watch the Milwaukee Brewers romp through the post-season and earn — really, truly earn — the first World Series championship in franchise history. The articles above do an exceptional job of capturing what was special about this team. In my reckoning, the genuine devotion the players, the managers, and even, improbably, the ownership have to the community in which they play, a community that stretches across an entire state. The first two pieces were published by Defector, home of the best current writing about the sports, and the third was published by The Athletic and The New York Times.