THE SITUATIONAL: Aristotle Wept

How many current MLB teams would win a seven-game series with the famed 1927 Yankees?

All of them. The Yankees only needed to beat other 1927 clubs, and did so more often than not - winning 110 games and sweeping the Pirates in the World Series. The 2026 Milwaukee Brewers would no-hit the Yankees in a hypothetical game that would not end unless the umpires and local ordinances intervened.

We're not disparaging the dead or pretending the two baseball teams played the same sport. No pitch clock back then, today's ground-rule double was a home run, and 18 pitchers in 1927 were grandfathered into throwing newly prohibited spitballs. It was all appropriate for the era. This is simply the reality…