NL Wild Card Game 1-Diamondbacks (Pfaadt) vs Brewers (Burnes): 10/3/23, 6:08pm

[brewers888]

1 minute ago, rickh150 said:

Turang being allowed to hit…

Bad base running by Adames andYelich

Awful pitching by best pitcher and like our fifth best pitcher this year

Winker batting there….and making the roster even. And being allowed to keep hitting after getting hurt… and not having him hit live MLB putching the last five games.. and and and…and letting this goof play and hit #2 for half the season…. And Hiura

Nah Hiura and Tyler Black can't be given a shot when you've got hitters like Turang, Wiemer, and Winker to choose instead. 

[adambr2]

5 minutes ago, RobertCrawley said:

The same doom and gloom, though. Every time.

Our stars let us down tonight.  It's a brand  spanking new day tomorrow.

Doom and gloom about some random game in May seems irrational.

Doom and gloom when you are literally one loss away from playoff elimination after you blew your best matchup seems quite reasonable and understandable.

[Cool Hand Lucroy]

I get the frustration. Of course I feel it too.

But the season didn't end tonight. I'm going to enjoy the heck out of one more baseball game, win or lose, and feel good about a season where we won the damn division.

Everyone can engage with baseball how they want. But the nature of the sport and the nature of being a small-market fan make basing a season's worth of results on a three-game series a losing proposition for me. I guess, at the end of the day, I just watch baseball for more than just the possibility of a World Series. That's there, sure. It hurts when it's no longer possible in a given year. But it always feels like a bonus more than anything.

Again, maybe that makes me weird. I accept. I just have more fun being weird, personally speaking, than I have being anything else.

Nyjer Morgan's throwing out the first pitch tomorrow. I'll be wearing my Gomez shirsey and trying to manifest at least one more homefield elimination game.

[RobertCrawley]

Just now, tmwiese55 said:

F the luck of that Longoria catch.  game changing play there.

I think I've said it before, but I think whatever team hands Burns his 250+ mil deal is going to regret it.  He's good but not true top top Cy Young level like the guys who have actually lived up to those type of contracts like Max, Cole, etc.   

He gave it all he had, but he had a bad day. It happens in sports.

[adambr2]

We managed to lose 6-3 in a game we were tied 4-4 with no outs in the 5th. That's a new low, even for us. 

[Bulldogboy]

2 minutes ago, brewers888 said:

Regular season success just isn't enough anymore since we've had no playoff success at all since 2018. No wonder why Counsell is probably chomping at the bit to get out of town.

That's probably true but he is accountable for part of the failure. He needs a fresh start and so do we.

[JefferyLeonard]

Can't wait to see what washed up, hoping for a revival, one year deal hitter they sign next off season. That ought to fix the offense, right? 

[Sixtolezcano]

Who cares it’s only a game. Everyone will be over playoff elimination by 10/31/25.

[BruisedCrew]

4 minutes ago, Cool Hand Lucroy said:

Fans should think that, sure.

But if the players are going in afraid of facing good pitchers, this series is over before it starts anyway.

They might not be afraid of facing a good pitcher but they might be incapable of hitting one. 

This was a game the Brewers really needed to win and they laid a major egg on several fronts. 

The team that won the first game won every series in the wild card round last year and only one of them went 3 games. The Brewers have put themselves into a tough spot. 

[markedman5]

 

[titletownking]

I seemingly post this every year at the end of the season, I feel like that’s now. 
 

Baseball breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring, when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall all alone. You count on it, rely on it to buffer the passage of time, to keep the memory of sunshine and high skies alive, and then just when the days are all twilight, when you need it most, it stops.

Questioning my love for this team at the moment. But I know I’ll be back next February. Until then, go Crew. 

[willie key]

I don’t even know if I’m mad at Turang batting with the bases loaded anymore.   Cc would have hit winker there anyways.     What’s the difference

[brewers888]

2 minutes ago, JefferyLeonard said:

Can't wait to see what washed up, hoping for a revival, one year deal hitter they sign next off season. That ought to fix the offense, right? 

It'll probably be Canha who everyone besides me seems to want back. 

[RobertCrawley]

5 minutes ago, titletownking said:

I seemingly post this every year at the end of the season, I feel like that’s now. 
 

Baseball breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring, when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall all alone. You count on it, rely on it to buffer the passage of time, to keep the memory of sunshine and high skies alive, and then just when the days are all twilight, when you need it most, it stops.

Questioning my love for this team at the moment. But I know I’ll be back next February. Until then, go Crew. 

Yep. The fans of very single team will have doom and gloom anger on their bulletin chat boards about players and manager.

Except one.

[Bulldogboy]

It hits home that we saw Burnes last Brewers start and it wasn't awesome. Feels kinda fitting. Very interested to see what they can get back. Also the whole Caratini thing is a question. Why did Contreras start catching him all of a sudden? I would have just left it as is for one game. It's not like Canha did anything. 

[RobertCrawley]

1 minute ago, brewers888 said:

It'll probably be Canha who everyone besides me seems to want back. 

I can't remember him having a good at-bat tonight. He'll need to do better tomorrow.

[willie key]

4 minutes ago, JefferyLeonard said:

Can't wait to see what washed up, hoping for a revival, one year deal hitter they sign next off season. That ought to fix the offense, right? 

Get braun off the couch.  That son of a gun can still hit I bet

[brewers888]

Just now, Bulldogboy said:

It hits home that we saw Burnes last Brewers start and it wasn't awesome. Feels kinda fitting. Very interested to see what they can get back. Also the whole Caratini thing is a question. Why did Contreras start catching him all of a sudden? I would have just left it as is for one game. It's not like Canha did anything. 

I really hope we trade him regardless of what happens this postseason. 

[adambr2]

It's admirable that you guys are just satisfied with the journey.

 There's also nothing wrong with expecting more from the destination. We deserve to expect more instead of just always being satisfied with 2nd level accomplishments like a division title. I don't even know where I'm going with that, because I had no illusions that this team was going to compete with Atlanta or Los Angeles. 

[yourout]

Just now, RobertCrawley said:

I can't remember him having a good at-bat tonight. He'll need to do better tomorrow.

He did get beaned once. I guess you can call that a good at bat for this team.

[edfunderburk]

A three game series leaves no margin for error 

I miss a seven game series 

Too many mediocre teams make the playoffs today

 

[Sixtolezcano]

Just now, willie key said:

Get braun off the couch.  That son of a gun can still hit I bet

Just regularly schedule his HGH injections.

[edfunderburk]

I would be confident if we had Woody tomorrow & Peralta on Thursday 

[jason21nl]

1 minute ago, adambr2 said:

It's admirable that you guys are just satisfied with the journey.

 There's also nothing wrong with expecting more from the destination. We deserve to expect more instead of just always being satisfied with 2nd level accomplishments like a division title. I don't even know where I'm going with that, because I had no illusions that this team was going to compete with Atlanta or Los Angeles. 

That’s exactly it.   This team was never going to compete for a WS so I’m not sure why I’m so disappointed.  

[brewers888]

Just now, adambr2 said:

It's admirable that you guys are just satisfied with the journey.

 There's also nothing wrong with expecting more from the destination. We deserve to expect more instead of just always being satisfied with 2nd level accomplishments like a division title. I don't even know where I'm going with that, because I had no illusions that this team was going to compete with Atlanta or Los Angeles. 

I want to win the world series and anything less is disappointing but the complete lack of postseason success since 2018 is unacceptable.