Braves (Sale) vs Brewers (Peralta): 7/31/24, 1:10pm

[adambr2]

2 minutes ago, tmwiese55 said:

Even if a borderline error its still bad luck/breaks.  Guy gets mediocre at best contact but it goes to a lucky spot making it a tough play.    Just like the scoring one, mediocre contact just happens to go to the wrong spot.

He fell behind 3-1 in the count (really didn't a single strike or anything close prior to that pitch) and had to throw a get me over fastball. Really hard to call that bad/luck breaks just because Riley happened to not make great contact on it. 

[Team Canada]

I trust you can apply my statement to the next applicable date.

[brewers888]

Mitchell can't hit the straight fastball.

[HarryDoyle]

1 minute ago, brewers888 said:

Mitchell can't hit the straight fastball.

i remember just two months ago when people were saying "Just wait until Mitchell gets back. Things will be all better then."

[brewers888]

When a teams only strengths are defense and bullpen they aren't a serious threat.

[tmwiese55]

6 minutes ago, adambr2 said:

He fell behind 3-1 in the count (really didn't a single strike or anything close prior to that pitch) and had to throw a get me over fastball. Really hard to call that bad/luck breaks just because Riley happened to not make great contact on it. 

I think its quite easy to do so.  That doesn't mean he did a good job or anything starting the way he did, but Reilly didn't do a good job either. He swung at ball 3, then hit a dribbler when he knew a FB was coming but got lucky it went to the right spot.  The pitcher being generally good got it in there when he needed and throws upper 90s with movement on his FB and got the weak contact which is his job.

Its baseball, you can't win every game and sometime just a few feet one way or the other make a big difference.  Crap happens some times.    Bad D play on a dribbler, a walk, then another dribbler through the crack.  It happens, didn't go your way today.  Its not anything to make a big deal or sweeping judgments about. 

[yourout]

Hard to believe the reds have a plus 44 run differential and are three games under 500

[Brewin]

1 minute ago, tmwiese55 said:

I think its quite easy to do so.  That doesn't mean he did a good job or anything starting the way he did, but Reilly didn't do a good job either. He swung at ball 3, then hit a dribbler when he knew a FB was coming but got lucky it went to the right spot.  The pitcher being generally good got it in there when he needed and throws upper 90s with movement on his FB and got the weak contact which is his job.

Its baseball, you can't win every game and sometime just a few feet one way or the other make a big difference.  Crap happens some times.    Bad D play on a dribbler, a walk, then another dribbler through the crack.  It happens, didn't go your way today.  Its not anything to make a big deal about. 

Excellent post. It doesn't fit the narrative of the "sky is falling crowd" who are the regulars in the game threads.

The facts are the team has a 5game division lead with 54 games left and is in very good position to win the division. If that happens the playoffs are a total crapshoot (see Arizona last year) 

[titletownking]

Mears is looking particularly brutal today too. Just an all around yuck way to start the 2nd half. 

[titletownking]

One thing I do know tho, is this team responds well to adversity under Pat so we’ll see how they respond. Cannot continue to drop home series tho, team lacks juice at home which shouldn’t be the case at all.  

[willie key]

4 minutes ago, Brewin said:

Excellent post. It doesn't fit the narrative of the "sky is falling crowd" who are the regulars in the game threads.

The facts are the team has a 5game division lead with 54 games left and is in very good position to win the division. If that happens the playoffs are a total crapshoot (see Arizona last year) 

The only chance you have is if the cardinals and pirates are bad (and they might be).     The brewers aren’t going to go out and just take this division now.  Yelich going down changed it and we had enough time to try to get a hitter 

but next year we are going to be so awesome per Matt Arnold.   This year apparently we suck so let’s just have fun with montas 

[adambr2]

Why even make a pitching change at this point? 

[Team Canada]

2 minutes ago, willie key said:

The only chance you have is if the cardinals and pirates are bad

If the Cardinals and Pirates are merely "ok" at .500 the rest of the way, the Brewers simply have to be 4 games below .500 or better.

[Pugger]

34 minutes ago, adambr2 said:

And yet it's still 2-2 if Elvis can retire one single hitter. 

Like svemerules said, I have no clue what they see in Elvis.  😕

[82brewcrew82]

7 minutes ago, Brewin said:

Excellent post. It doesn't fit the narrative of the "sky is falling crowd" who are the regulars in the game threads.

The facts are the team has a 5game division lead with 54 games left and is in very good position to win the division. If that happens the playoffs are a total crapshoot (see Arizona last year) 

No different than the "unicorns and rainbows" crowd that feels its their personal responsibility to counter event the slightest bit of negativity.

I think the team being in a very good position to win the division is highly debatable.

[sobomp3]

19 minutes ago, HarryDoyle said:

i remember just two months ago when people were saying "Just wait until Mitchell gets back. Things will be all better then."

I actually do not remember that... at all. Like, people wrote Mitchell off two years ago lol. What fantasy world is this?!

[Team Canada]

Just now, 82brewcrew82 said:

the slightest bit of negativity.

That's not the issue (at least, I have no problem with someone taking a negative opinion about future events). It's the posters who pop into a thread at just the right time to declare definitively in absolute terms that this team is terrible, player X is terrible, and event Y WILL happen. If someone says the exact opposite that should be equally derided (unless it's the optimism thread).

[Brewin]

1 minute ago, 82brewcrew82 said:

No different than the "unicorns and rainbows" crowd that feels its their personal responsibility to counter event the slightest bit of negativity.

I think the team being in a very good position to win the division is highly debatable.

Everybody is entitled to their opinion, but the math definitely favors the Brewers.

Assuming a loss today and a STL win, if the Crew plays .500 ball the rest of the season, STL has to play at an almost .600 pace to catch them. Certainly possible, definitely not likely

[willie key]

5 minutes ago, Team Canada said:

If the Cardinals and Pirates are merely "ok" at .500 the rest of the way, the Brewers simply have to be 4 games below .500 or better.

Pirates and cardinals being .500 the rest of the way is bad.   They could be that but I bet one of them aren’t.     

[tmwiese55]

Glad we saved Bauers, one of the best PHs and LH to hit now down 4 instead of the bases loaded in place of our worst hitter

[HarryDoyle]

7 minutes ago, sobomp3 said:

I actually do not remember that... at all. Like, people wrote Mitchell off two years ago lol. What fantasy world is this?!

Yeah, I figured I'd get a post like this, people practicing revisionist history. It was in just about every other game thread while he was on IL. It's well documented. 

[Pugger]

I hate to be Captain Obvious but it is no coincidence our offensive struggles began with Contreras slumping and Yelich's back acting up. 

Another issue this year is our screwups on the bases.  I'd hate to google how many outs we've had so far...

[Jopal78]

22 minutes ago, Team Canada said:

If the Cardinals and Pirates are merely "ok" at .500 the rest of the way, the Brewers simply have to be 4 games below .500 or better.

See the 2014 Brewers. Even further ahead on July 1st (6.5 games) and died on the vine. 
 

They might not die on the vine this year but man their play against other NL “contenders” (SD, LA, PHI, ATL has not been good (4-12). If they manage to sneak in it’s probably another quick exit unless they get some real luck.  

[yourout]

3 minutes ago, Pugger said:

I hate to be Captain Obvious but it is no coincidence our offensive struggles began with Contreras slumping and Yelich's back acting up. 

Another issue this year is our screwups on the bases.  I'd hate to google how many outs we've had so far...

The fact that Turang and Ortiz have completely collapsed is also a factor.

[82brewcrew82]

19 minutes ago, Team Canada said:

That's not the issue (at least, I have no problem with someone taking a negative opinion about future events). It's the posters who pop into a thread at just the right time to declare definitively in absolute terms that this team is terrible, player X is terrible, and event Y WILL happen. If someone says the exact opposite that should be equally derided (unless it's the optimism thread).

That is the problem, why does anyone need to be "derided" at all? There are posters perceive as positive, and posters that are perceived as negative.  I see plenty of pot shot (and more personal than that), passive aggressive, pissy posts aimed at the posters perceived as negative.  I don't see those posters calling out the positivity of positive posters. 

If you can't handle it, ignore it.  If you really believe any poster needs to be "derided" then you are part of the problem, particularly as a moderator.