Smart Can Win

And so ends the Los Angeles Dodgers' reign as baseball's most overwhelming boogeyman. The poster kids for the omnipotence of money, the belief that having the best player means being the best team, the power of the big market over all it surveys—all of that feels less important at this moment than the ability to do the things the Milwaukee Brewers do better than anyone else. The same old song has been replaced, for the moment, by this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Xzmeye6MaY Yes, meet your new overlords. The Brewers pack extraordinary amounts of baseball into every game, play it better than anyone else, and supposedly have no interest in hitting home runs. It was fitting, then, that they gave the nation a little tweak on the cheek Thursday night en route to sweeping the Dodgers out of the postseason when the final run they scored in their 6-4 win came on a moonshot from noted Boston Red Sox ex-pat and devoted homer avoider David Hamilton. The Brewers did all the things that made them the best team in baseball this season, and mostly kept the Dodgers from doing the things that won them the last two World Series—and then they did the stuff that contemporary winning baseball teams do, too, in a typically unpredictable way.

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