Trevor Megill has earned the right to say whatever he wants to Cubs fans. The people mad about it are just mad the Brewers won.
Megill stood in a champagne-soaked clubhouse Wednesday, got asked what he wanted to tell the fans, and said, "Have fun talking shit to Chicago next year. We have a ring." A man who recorded the final outs of his franchise's first championship in 57 years took a shot at the division's loudest fanbase. That's the whole offense.
Trash talk after a title is receipts. The Brewers beat the Rays 4-1 in Game 5 to close out the 2026 World Series in five, and Megill was on the mound for the final outs, entering the eighth with a 4-0 lead. His postseason line: a 2.00 ERA, five saves in eight appearances. Do that and nobody gets to lecture you about humility. Humility is for the team that lost.
The Cubs have been losing this argument for a while. Milwaukee won a franchise-record, MLB-best 103 games in the regular season, then ran through the Padres, swept the Dodgers, and handled Tampa Bay. They also eliminated the Cubs from the 2025 playoffs. Chicago's one fallback has always been the oldest taunt in the book: cute division, where's your trophy? Megill just buried that taunt, and he knows exactly which fanbase has been leaning on it.
The pushback is that Megill used to be a Cub, so he's throwing stones from inside a glass house. That gets it backwards. Chicago took him in the 2019 Rule 5 Draft, gave him 28 games, watched him post an 8.37 ERA with seven home runs allowed, and let him walk for nothing. He was a non-tender, a guy they decided wasn't worth keeping. Five years later he's a closer with an ERA under 3.00 in each of the last three seasons, and he's the final image of a championship for the team the Cubs can't keep pace with. Wearing Cubs blue once only sharpens the jab.
The Cubs front office gave away a reliever who turned into a title-clinching closer. The roster keeps finishing behind Milwaukee. The fans spent a year talking before their team gave them anything to back it up. Megill didn't invent any of that. He just read the scoreboard out loud.
William Contreras won World Series MVP, not Megill, and that's fine. The ring earns the mic. Megill has one, the Cubs don't, and no amount of offseason outrage from Chicago changes that math.
