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#18: 2026 World Series Recap — 57 Years in the Making

Necessary Roughness Ep. 18: 2026 World Series Recap — 57 Years in the Making

Welcome back to Necessary Roughness—your daily dose of raw sports takes riffing straight off the Twitter feed.

Milwaukee is a World Series champion for the first time in franchise history, and they got there with the 19th-ranked payroll, a 103-mph first pitch, and two 22-year-olds rewriting record books that have stood since Ty Cobb and Babe Ruth.

In this episode, we go game by game through the Fall Classic. A premature celebration overturned by replay in the ninth. The wildest first inning in 33 years. Seven…

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