Our Pastime on the Brink: the 2022 World Series  - a podcast by Andrew, Ed, and Zak

Welcome back to the Bill Bradley Collective, where we are a mere two days away from first pitch of the 2022 World Series, the very topic of week’s conversation. The baseball postseason has been noteworthy for some true parody on the National League side, as the two surviving teams began seeded 5th and 6th, and the top four teams bombed out in the wild card and division series rounds. We start with a look at MLB’s newly installed playoff format, which has been debated by many in the media following this unlikely NLCS featuring the underdog Padres and Phillies. Your hosts offer some quick dispatches on those teams, as well as the Yankees on the precipice of yet another in a long line of early playoff flameouts; the conquering Astros who continue on as baseball’s closest thing to a modern dynasty while still wearing stench of 2017’s cheating scandal, and finally taking the interest-level temperature of the World Series on a Collective and presumed national level. First we rant: Ed’s in the lead-off spot with an examination of the nepotism enveloping Iowa Hawkeye football’s success at setting offense in college football back forty years every Saturday; Andrew’s on-deck with the factors in play leading pod-fave Terence Crawford to step away from a potential super-fight with P4P rival Errol Spence, Jr.; and finally Zak bats out of the hole with an assessment of the fallout from Georgia’s Senatorial debate, wherein Herschel Walker flashed a badge that wouldn’t have gotten him on Andy Griffith’s Mayberry detail.

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