Brewers' World Series Run and Their Viral Fan Song

Sam Baseball's got a team doing something it has never done before, and a whole city seems to be losing its mind over a song. What's actually going on here?

Maya The Milwaukee Brewers swept the Los Angeles Dodgers, the two-time defending champions, in four straight games to win the National League Championship Series on October 15. That sends the Brewers to just their second World Series ever, and their first National League pennant in franchise history.

Sam Four straight against the team that just won back-to-back titles sounds like a beatdown. Was there something about the matchup that made this more than a simple case of one good team against another?

Maya There's a wrinkle that makes it stranger — the Dodgers swept the Brewers in the postseason the year before. So Milwaukee becomes the first team in MLB history to sweep a club in the playoffs the season right after getting swept by that same club. The clinching game itself was tight too, a 6–4 win.

Sam That's a real turnaround to process. Does their regular season back up the idea that this wasn't a fluke, or were they more of an underdog who caught fire at the right moment?

Maya They finished 103–59, the best record in the National League, which earns them home-field advantage in the World Series. Their only other trip to the Series was in 1982, when they lost in seven games to the St. Louis Cardinals, so Milwaukee is still chasing its first championship ever.

Sam With home-field advantage locked in, who exactly are they waiting on? I assume someone still has to win the other league's series before this gets going.

Maya The American League side isn't settled — the Cleveland Guardians lead the Tampa Bay Rays 2–1 in that championship series, and Game 4 was postponed. Game 1 of the World Series is scheduled for Friday, October 23, with Games 1, 2, 6 and 7 in Milwaukee and Games 3 through 5 at the American League champion's ballpark.

Sam So depending on how long it runs, this could stretch deep into the month. Is there a date out there that would make a deciding game feel especially strange?

Maya A Game 7, if it happens, would fall on Halloween, October 31. Every game airs on FOX, FOX Deportes and FOX One.

Sam Since Halloween's on the table, let's get into this song everyone keeps bringing up alongside the games. Where did it even come from?

Maya It's the work of a local Milwaukee rapper who performs as Foenem. He wrote a one-minute-39-second track and posted it to TikTok on October 4, before the sweep even happened. By October 17, that post had been viewed 522,100 times and liked 56,800 times, according to an MLB.com report from that day.

Sam Those are massive numbers for a song nobody outside Milwaukee had probably heard of two weeks earlier. Did it stay a phone-screen thing, or did it turn into something bigger?

Maya Six days after that first post, Foenem released a full music video filmed outside American Family Field, the Brewers' home stadium. That video has since pulled in more than 66,000 views on YouTube, on top of the original TikTok numbers.

Sam So there's now a visual version tied to the actual ballpark, not just an audio clip floating around online. Has it taken hold inside the team itself, or is this purely a fan phenomenon happening outside the clubhouse?

Maya It's reportedly become the unofficial theme song inside the clubhouse as the team gets ready for the World Series. That's notable because Milwaukee already has a long-running stadium anthem, "Roll Out the Barrel," so this is something new sitting alongside that old tradition rather than replacing it.

Sam Stepping back from the song itself, what's the actual reason a franchise that most of the country barely thinks about during the season suddenly has people everywhere paying attention?

Maya Milwaukee is a small-market team, meaning it operates with less revenue and a smaller media footprint than teams in cities like New York or Los Angeles. Getting to the World Series for only the second time ever, and the first time in 44 years, is already a massive regional story on its own, and the sweep of the two-time defending champions gave it a revenge angle that carried the story past Wisconsin.

Sam That underdog angle makes sense for sports fans, but plenty of people who don't follow baseball at all seem to know about this. Is the song the thing doing that extra work?

Maya A hometown rapper's TikTok track turning into the sound of a pennant run is the kind of organic, bottom-up fan moment that tends to cross from sports pages into general pop-culture conversation. That's why outlets ranging from MLB.com to Yahoo Sports to Wikipedia have all been tracking it at the same time, rather than it staying confined to baseball coverage.

Sam Before we close out, if someone only takes one thing from everything we've covered today, what should that be?

Maya A 44-year wait ending with a sweep of the team that beat you the year before is already a complete story, but pairing it with a song written by a local artist before the run even happened is what let this travel beyond baseball fans entirely.

Sam That's a great note to end on. Thanks for walking through all of this with me, and to everyone listening, we'll catch you in the next episode.

Maya Take care, and know that this show is AI-generated with synthetic voices, built from reporting whose authors have no connection to this production, so enjoy the story but check the originals if you want the full detail.

Sam We'll be back with another episode tomorrow, so until then, keep an eye on that World Series schedule and don't be surprised if that song is still stuck in your head.

Maya Everything today came from reporting by MLB.com, Yahoo Sports and Wikipedia, and that's where you can follow both the Brewers' World Series run and Foenem's song as they keep developing.