Game Thread (9/29/2022): Marlins (Garrett) at Brewers (Lauer) - 6:40 PM CDT

[Brewcrew82]

What a mentally weak team this year. 

[mtrebs]

Crappy throw by Adames. It’s like they want to find ways to blow games. 

[mtrebs]

Just now, mtrebs said:

Crappy throw by Adames. It’s like they want to find ways to blow games. 

At least they turned the DP there. 

[edfunderburk]

17 minutes ago, GoBrewers1982 said:

 Yelich=Loser, $20M a year= 0 return.

$26M I believe

[Sixtolezcano]

Oh no Cutch is batting.

[GoBrewers1982]

Sorry, got that wrong!

Yelich=loser, $27M a year = 0 return!

[MrTPlush]

I know Peralta isn’t a regular bullpen arm, but this has been such a theme this year…and even worse the last month. I don’t care what the offense scored. The bullpen has been handed many leads…many multi run leads and they blow way too many of them.

This isn’t on Counsell. It’s on the guy that took an iffy bullpen and made it worse at the deadline after trading the top bullpen arm in baseball. It’s flat out unacceptable. David Stearns traded Hader and filled the bullpen with literal garbage. Don’t forget he traded for a dude WHO NEVER EVEN THREW A PITCH. It was honestly pathetic and it’s hard to imagine how Stearns could have done any worse.

[mtrebs]

I know we say it multiple times every week, but this was the worst loss of the season. 

[Sixtolezcano]

Come on Cutch that was ball 4. 

[willie key]

I just can’t believe counsell left peralta in after he walked the guy.    I just can’t believe it.     I mean what the hell

[adambr2]

We still have 6 more full seasons of the nightmare that is the Christian Yelich contract. 

[YelichPosse]

The door was wide open today for the WC.

we slammed it on our own hand.

[wOOgiE22]

Hiura gets caught trying to steal 3rd. Then a couple pitches later a base hit that would have scored him. Then Wong can’t score from 2nd on a hit and bobble in the OF.  That is 2 extra runs right there. Theme of the season. 

[AKCheesehead]

This game was like when the dog starts doing that slow heaving and you try to get to it to take it outside or at least onto the linoleum floor but it avoids you and makes sure to throw up on the carpet instead.

[Sixtolezcano]

5 minutes ago, willie key said:

I just can’t believe counsell left peralta in after he walked the guy.    I just can’t believe it.     I mean what the hell

Entirely predictable. Counsell has done the same thing all year. You can’t change a tiger’s stripes. Let’s face it, the game has passed him by.

[beekay414]

Counsell couldn't manage a Walmart

[wiguy94]

6 minutes ago, MrTPlush said:

I know Peralta isn’t a regular bullpen arm, but this has been such a theme this year…and even worse the last month. I don’t care what the offense scored. The bullpen has been handed many leads…many multi run leads and they blow way too many of them.

This isn’t on Counsell. It’s on the guy that took an iffy bullpen and made it worse at the deadline after trading the top bullpen arm in baseball. It’s flat out unacceptable. David Stearns traded Hader and filled the bullpen with literal garbage. Don’t forget he traded for a dude WHO NEVER EVEN THREW A PITCH. It was honestly pathetic and it’s hard to imagine how Stearns could have done any worse.

Since the beginning of August the Brewers bullpen has the most meltdowns in the MLB (when a reliever lowers his teams win probability by 6% or more) with 41 and we are 26th in bullpen WPA. Bullpen has been a total failure since the deadline. The offense hasn't been great but our bullpen has been given numerous leads in lower scoring games in the last few months and has choked a ton of them away. Fixing the bullpen and bringing in a big bat are priority 1A and 1B this offseason.

[wildcat2237]

8 minutes ago, adambr2 said:

We still have 6 more full seasons of the nightmare that is the Christian Yelich contract. 

No way he makes it that long. Likely dfa'd in two years or so.

[wiguy94]

3 minutes ago, wildcat2237 said:

No way he makes it that long. Likely dfa'd in two years or so.

Why? As long as he's an average MLB player which he has been this year and last it makes no sense DFA him and pay him not to be on the roster.

[GoBrewers1982]

I say we put this year to rest, in the ground like a coffin! It has been utterly painful to say the least. I mean honestly, even if they do absolutely everything wrong as they have been doing lately and still win the WC, who really cares! They are not going anywhere! I blame Sterns the most! For screwing up this teams chemistry! Then of course Yelich! *** is wrong with him? Give him glasses or something, or a brain transplant, my god! I will not be able to take 6 more years of him!

[HarveysWBs]

I know, I know, if it's the postseason, anything can happen, and I'm not saying making the wild card wouldn't be worth it.  A shot is better than no shot.

But this bullpen couldn't hold two runs against the Marlins, and they've been leaking for months.  They're not going to face AAA lineups in the postseason.  This next week kind of feels like trying to win a steel cage death match, only to find out you were all on death row anyway.

I want to believe, but the end result seems so obviously painful.

[wibadgers23]

This has been one of the more painful seasons that I can remember. 2014 was brutal too but this year has been one giant kick to the nuts after another.

[mtrebs]

14 minutes ago, Sixtolezcano said:

Entirely predictable. Counsell has done the same thing all year. You can’t change a tiger’s stripes. Let’s face it, the game has passed him by.

I don’t think he even had anyone warming up until after the walk to load the bases. It was obvious Peralta didn’t have his command for most of that inning. Counsell should have had people up much sooner. 

[superfly]

19 minutes ago, adambr2 said:

We still have 6 more full seasons of the nightmare that is the Christian Yelich contract. 

The horse is dead guys. 

[BruisedCrew]

32 minutes ago, OldSchoolSnapper said:

Stranded bases loaded certainly looms large even if they were just sitting 3-4 right now and not down 2. 

But like I said today when the Cubs won, it only matters if you're ahead of PHL on the last day. That is still very much in play. I thought we had to go 7-2 in the final 9 but 6-3 might do it.  

 

It’s hard to get excited about a team that only has a chance to grab the last spot in an expanded playoff system if the team they are competing with falls on its face worse than the Brewers do.

On the surface I would like to see the Brewers make the playoffs. But, when the likely result of that would be getting to see the Cardinals celebrate at the Brewers expense for a second time, maybe a quiet end to this disappointing season would be more merciful than anything else.