How do $750 million dollar contracts compare to "baseball cards", "County Stadium" and the joy of "Let's Play Two? The Field of Dreams is becoming just that... a far away dream.

[AKCheesehead]

1 hour ago, owbc said:

It's bad to have Yamamoto and Ohtani on the same time. First, the obvious one of never seeing Ohtani bat against Yamamoto. As well as robbing a fanbase of the opportunity to get excited about signing an international superstar. 

Instead, all of that excitement just goes to seeing if the Dodgers win 105 or 110 games before getting bounced in the postseason. 

If the NBA is any guide, people love to see the superteams lose, and it happens quite frequently. But in MLB we'll probably get writers moaning about how MLB's postseason format is unfair to the Dodgers. 

Guilty, I love seeing the superteams lose.  And the subsequent griping I'm totally cool with.  It's just the cherry on top of the sundae.

[CheezWizHed]

On 12/12/2023 at 12:34 PM, Rick Daltons Flamethrower said:

 IMHO Sometimes it's ok to just feel sad. It's part of the grieving process. It's honest.

You can not lose that which you never had.  Seems like every year we look at the green grass in someone else's pasture instead of appreciating the green grass we have.  

[Rick Daltons Flamethrower]

4 hours ago, CheezWizHed said:

You can not lose that which you never had.  Seems like every year we look at the green grass in someone else's pasture instead of appreciating the green grass we have.  

Appreciate your response. IMHO I think you can look at the other pastures and still appreciate your own pasture. I grew up cheering for people in alot of different pastures. Pastures in St Louis, Chicago, Boston and New York to name a few. So grateful the  people of Seattle let go of something that has become so special here in Milwaukee.  I am sure there were people in Seattle who greived the loss of something that had become special to them. 

[Soupbone]

To comment on Cheesehead's thought. Any fan of small market teams loves it when the big spenders lose. But it might be because that is all we realistically have to cheer for. Oh our Brewers have been competitive and it has been a great run. Hopefully it continues. But most years we truly have no chance to win the WS. You can talk about "bites of the apple". You can say we were close in 2018. (the Dodgers were dominated by the Red Sox.) And so on. At some point a team has to "go for it" or we are going to be full of apples with no championship flags to fly.

[Rick Daltons Flamethrower]

Happy New Year as we wait for some smart Small market moves. No time for desperation.

[BrewerFan]

On 12/15/2023 at 8:31 PM, Rick Daltons Flamethrower said:

Appreciate your response. IMHO I think you can look at the other pastures and still appreciate your own pasture. I grew up cheering for people in alot of different pastures. Pastures in St Louis, Chicago, Boston and New York to name a few. So grateful the  people of Seattle let go of something that has become so special here in Milwaukee.  I am sure there were people in Seattle who greived the loss of something that had become special to them. 

Yeah, agreed. Also...I don't agree. Of course you can "grieve" the loss of a playoff series, a season. You only get so many of them, then but so many real chances in the post-season...so it sucks when you lose. That's what we're grieving. It's rough. 

I still wouldn't trade my "pasture" for anyone else's.