{"id":80421,"date":"2026-10-24T10:55:14","date_gmt":"2026-10-24T15:55:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/24\/the-world-series-of-the-have-nots-is-here-but-baseballs-money-problem-isnt-going-away-tom-dart\/"},"modified":"2026-10-24T10:55:14","modified_gmt":"2026-10-24T15:55:14","slug":"the-world-series-of-the-have-nots-is-here-but-baseballs-money-problem-isnt-going-away-tom-dart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/24\/the-world-series-of-the-have-nots-is-here-but-baseballs-money-problem-isnt-going-away-tom-dart\/","title":{"rendered":"The World Series of the have-nots is here. But baseball\u2019s money problem isn\u2019t going away | Tom Dart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Baseball\u2019s two best regular-season teams are also among its lowest spenders. But their unlikely World Series comes with a warning about the sport\u2019s future<\/p>\n<p>The best pitcher in baseball led the best team to victory over the second-best team? Weird.<\/p>\n<p>A World Series that makes the logical feel novel began on Friday as the Milwaukee Brewers <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/oct\/23\/brewers-rays-world-series-game-one-christian-yelich\">beat the Tampa Bay Rays 3-2 in Game 1<\/a>. Of course the Brewers, with their MLB-topping 103 regular-season victories, should be facing the 98-win Rays on the grandest stage. But of course, since these are two of the smallest and lowest-budget franchises in the sport, they shouldn\u2019t.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/oct\/24\/brewers-rays-world-series-game-one-baseball-payroll-salary-cap\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Baseball\u2019s two best regular-season teams are also among its lowest spenders. But their unlikely World Series comes with a warning about the sport\u2019s future The best pitcher in baseball led the best team to victory over the second-best team? Weird. A World Series that makes the logical feel novel began on Friday as the Milwaukee &#8230; <a title=\"The World Series of the have-nots is here. But baseball\u2019s money problem isn\u2019t going away | Tom Dart\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/24\/the-world-series-of-the-have-nots-is-here-but-baseballs-money-problem-isnt-going-away-tom-dart\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about The World Series of the have-nots is here. But baseball\u2019s money problem isn\u2019t going away | Tom Dart\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80421\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}