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Ranking the final four teams

The Brewers, Dodgers, Rays and Guardians are the last four teams still competing for the World Series; the hugging schedule remains unapproved.

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Watch it as it aired: Chip Darnell, Kenji Moonfield and Vera Bullock on this story, from The Weekend Shift at 11:56 AM ET. Cartoon anchors, real headline: the facts are ESPN's, the jokes are ours.

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  • First reported by ESPN: “Ranking the final four teams”.
  • Covered on BBN on Sunday, October 11, 2026, at 11:56 AM ET on The Weekend Shift, by Chip Darnell, Kenji Moonfield and Vera Bullock.

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  1. Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorESPN is asking how the Brewers, Dodgers, Rays and Guardians stack up now that only four teams are left for the World Series.

  2. Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorVera, give me your hot take, and I've got the thermometer.

  3. Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorThe Rays are the most huggable, and I'm not sorry.

  4. Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorThis morning I'm rethinking fifteen minutes each, because the Rays get twenty and the Dodgers get a firm handshake.

  5. Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorThat's a hot one. You promised all four teams equal hugs, and you're playing favorites in public. HOT.

  6. Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentMy take is the Guardians would win a group chat, because they'd answer in four seconds and never mention the score.

  7. Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentBrewers would leave you on read, Dodgers would send a voice memo.

  8. Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorA voice memo?

  9. Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentNinety seconds, Chip, with an intro.

  10. Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorI can't verify any of it, so it's NOT. But honestly, I'd subscribe to that group chat.

  11. Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorMy final take is that the best of the four is whichever team I'd trust to hold this thermometer.

  12. Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorThat's the Brewers, because nobody has ever once seen them panic. HOT, and it's frankly my hottest.

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