The Fancestor: Fans of the 2026 World Series
Garret Heinrich, Chrystal O'Keefe, and Ruth Kapelus joined The Fancestor podcast to review the 2026 Major League Baseball postseason and preview the World Series. The discussion covered notable playoff eliminations, the role of team managers, and how small-market team success affects the sport.
Garret Heinrich, Chrystal O’Keefe, and Ruth Kapelus joined The Fancestor podcast to review the 2026 Major League Baseball postseason and preview the World Series. The discussion covered notable playoff eliminations, the role of team managers, and how small-market team success affects the sport.
The episode concluded with the panelists offering their World Series predictions. The Fancestor podcast explores baseball fandom by interviewing supporters from all thirty Major League Baseball teams to understand why people remain fans.
The Fancestor: Fans of the 2026 World Series
Garret Heinrich, Chrystal O’Keefe, and Ruth Kapelus return to The Fancestor to join a panel discussion on the 2026 MLB Postseason and preview the World Series (kinda sorta).
The panelists discussed their favorite “hater moments” from the 2026 postseason, including Atlanta’s elimination and the Padres’ heartbreak, the Cubs’ swift exit, and Pete Crow-Armstrong‘s poor fashion choices.
Next, the panel discussed just how much managers still matter. From there, the conversation shifted to small market teams in the postseason and whether their success is good for baseball. The episode concluded with World Series predictions.
The Fancestor is a podcast about that will speak to 30 fans from 30 Major League Baseball teams to determine exactly why we are fans. Through interesting conversations, it strives to understand and explain fandom: how we became fans, the moments that tested our fandom and why – at the end of the day – we are still fans.
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