Congratulations to the World Series winner Milwaukee Brewers, clearly the best team in baseball in 2026. The small-market Brewers had the best regular season record in baseball at 103-59 and then waltzed through the post-season at 11-2, crushing fine teams like the San Diego Padres, Los Angeles Dodgers, and Tampa Bay Rays along the way.
Baseball franchise owners were hoping the L.A. Dodgers would win their third straight World Series so they’d have proof that it was unfair to expect small market teams to compete without a salary cap, which is vastly lucrative to franchise owners. But the Dodgers, despite their giant metropolis and being the second winningest team, got swept by the Rust Belt Brewers.
Some people are noticing that retired slugging shortstop Alex Rodriguez, the former boyfriend of Anne Wojcicki, founder of genetic testing firm 23andMe, is a really good baseball commentator:
A-Rod loves baseball.
As I wrote in 2017:
A Tale of Two Sisters
Steve Sailer
August 30, 2017
Much of the mania of the moment stems from a growing crisis of faith among elites over how much longer they can expect the ideological dogmas under which they have prospered so mightily to withstand the onrushing findings of genetic science.
No family illustrates this tension more ironically than the Wojcicki sisters, Susan (the former landlady of Google guys Larry Page and Sergey Brin) and Anne (the former wife of Sergey).
Susan Wojcicki (pronounced Wo-jit-skee) now heads Google’s subsidiary YouTube. This month she has taken the lead in corporate America’s march toward censorship of genetic explanations for sex and race differences, getting Google engineer James Damore fired and installing a system for neutering the impact of politically incorrect videos.
Meanwhile, Anne Wojcicki is the cofounder and CEO of 23andMe, a well-known genetic testing service for quantifying your racial past and what your genes might portend for your future.
The Wojcicki sisters enjoyed the ideal nature and nurture for fabulous Silicon Valley careers. Their father was chairman of the Stanford physics department, their mother an energetic teacher at Palo Alto High School, and they grew up in faculty housing on the Stanford campus, surrounded by brilliant scientists.
The Wojcicki sisters’ father was the gentile Polish chairman of the Stanford physics department and their mother was a famous Jewish teacher at Palo Alto high school. Actor James Franco was one of their mom’s best-known students … before he got cancelled.
And the Wojcicki sisters were in the right place at the right time to meet the right people.
As you’ll recall, the Internet was initially hyped as a breakthrough that would eliminate the tyranny of location: You could work from anywhere in the world! But, it turned out, where you live matters not less but even more in the Internet Age.
After completing her UCLA M.B.A. in 1998, Susan and her husband bought a five-bedroom house (with help from her parents) in Menlo Park near Stanford for about $600,000. They rented the garage to grad students Larry and Sergey to use as an office. Soon the landlady was working for nascent Google as a marketer and introducing Sergey to her sister.
This month, Susan won the power struggle within Google over software engineer James Damore documenting some of the biological science behind Google’s hiring patterns. (Paradoxically, Damore was fired for defending the hiring practices of Google executives, such as Susan Wojcicki.)
And Susan has now had YouTube enforce, in cooperation with the Anti-Defamation League, a policy of soft censorship of heterodox videos, such as journalist Jared Taylor’s “Race Differences in Intelligence.”
You can’t watch it on Youtube anymore, but you can see it at:
https://altcensored.com/watch?v=MlQBWdGjH4U
Heretics are currently being allowed to keep their videos up on YouTube’s near-monopoly service to deny them martyrdom. But most functionality, such as comments, advertising, and sharing, is being stripped away.
As Susan asked in an op-ed condemning Damore’s impudence:
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