r/baseball: Brewers fans react to the team's first World Series trip since 1982
The other side of the same night: what a long-awaited pennant means to fans of a small-market team.
Posted seconds after the Dodgers thread, this image post marks the Milwaukee Brewers clinching the National League pennant with a four-game NLCS sweep of the two-time defending champion Dodgers. It drew about 16,800 upvotes and 1,400 comments in a 2.8-million-member community.
Where the Dodgers thread is mostly about the loser, this one belongs to Milwaukee fans. The top reply describes a kind of euphoria the writer had never felt, after the Brewers came from behind in most of the games. Others call it a "team of destiny" and look ahead to the American League winner. One long, widely upvoted reply recalls weekly Brewers games with an elderly Wisconsin neighbor.
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Milwaukee Brewers
After exploring THE BREWERS ARE GOING TO THE WORLD SERIES!, the club's long road is traced in Milwaukee Brewers.
The club's history: a National League Central team based in Milwaukee, named for the city's brewing industry, which has played at its current ballpark since 2001.
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