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Chef Reactions Did Not Pick the Phillies for his MLB Team
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If you’re a Millennial on Instagram, exhausted and scrolling after the kids finally go to sleep, you are no doubt familiar with Chef Reactions, who does wonderfully sardonic cooking commentary. One of the best accounts currently going on social media right now. He had recently teased that he was looking for a baseball team to support, and listed the Phillies as one of the finalists, which resulted in this reveal at the MLB All Star game:
No Phillies, but the team he picked just happens to have Major League Baseball’s best record. So it’s a little frontrunner-ish, which he mentions in an earlier video (spoiler: he doesn’t care). It’s sort of like the people who say “I’m looking for a Premier League team!“, and the big decision ends up being Manchester City, winners of the six of the last eight league titles. Or a European getting into American football and deciding to support the Chiefs. Way to go out on a limb there!
That’s one side of it. The other side is that the Detroit Tigers won 86 games last year, and are good this year, but they haven’t exactly been a perennial powerhouse. They had a nice run when Justin Verlander and Miguel Cabrera were in their primes, and went to two World Series, but were largely dreck for the 20 years spanning 1985 to 2005. So it’s not like Chef Reactions is jumping on the Yankees bandwagon, or the Lakers, or the Cowboys. He’s picking a team that’s good now but last won it all when Ronald Reagan was in office, and Kenny Loggins was on the Billboard charts, so all things considered, this is probably acceptable. No violation, carry on.
(We’re gatekeeping a guy who comments on cooking videos? Yeah. It’s been a slow week.)
Kevin has been writing about Philadelphia sports since 2009. He spent seven years in the CBS 3 sports department and started with the Union during the team's 2010 inaugural season. He went to the academic powerhouses of Boyertown High School and West Virginia University. email - k.kinkead@sportradar.com