Brewers (Montas) vs Giants (Birdsong): 9/12/24, 8:45pm

[Brock Beauchamp]

[treego14]

It will be a SwanSong for BirdSong

as our hits will be LongGone!

Frankie will for their tears have to give them a Hankie as we deliver a thorough Spankie!

[willie key]

Forum rule

 

No one  is allowed to say montas is pitching great until he leaves the game.  😀😀

[Brian]

5 minutes ago, willie key said:

Forum rule

 

No one  is allowed to say montas is pitching great until he leaves the game.  😀😀

I promise I won't say that .. Brewers are to the point of having to play .500 baseball to even make the playoffs with 17 games left. The losing must stop now. 

[Ron Robinsons Beard]

21 minutes ago, Brian said:

I promise I won't say that .. Brewers are to the point of having to play .500 baseball to even make the playoffs with 17 games left. The losing must stop now. 

Wow ... no. Even if the Brewers finished the year 0-17 (which would be an astronomical collapse), the Cubs would still need to finish 9-7 to pass them. Even if the Brewers tanked and went something like 3-14, the Cubs would need to finish 12-4. Going 9-8 would be enough to seal the division, even if the Cubs win out (also astronomically unlikely).

[Brian]

2 minutes ago, Ron Robinsons Beard said:

Wow ... no. Even if the Brewers finished the year 0-17 (which would be an astronomical collapse), the Cubs would still need to finish 9-7 to pass them. Even if the Brewers tanked and went something like 3-14, the Cubs would need to finish 12-4. Going 9-8 would be enough to seal the division, even if the Cubs win out (also astronomically unlikely).

That is good news but why does my stomach do flip flops starting the 7th inning lately?

[willie key]

2 hours ago, Brian said:

I promise I won't say that .. Brewers are to the point of having to play .500 baseball to even make the playoffs with 17 games left. The losing must stop now. 

The brewers are in ridiculously great shape.      You couldn’t ask for a better spot to be in (other than the bye which we screwed up).     The cubs are just being annoying which aggravates me .   At this point just go away.    I would be pissed if they snuck into that last playoff spot.  

[wiguy94]

1 hour ago, willie key said:

The brewers are in ridiculously great shape.      You couldn’t ask for a better spot to be in (other than the bye which we screwed up).     The cubs are just being annoying which aggravates me .   At this point just go away.    I would be pissed if they snuck into that last playoff spot.  

The Cubs sneaking into a WC spot is extremely unlikely considering both the Braves and Mets own tiebreakers over them which means they need to be 5 games better then the Braves and 6 games better than the Mets over the final 16 games to secure the WC.

If the Cubs who are 5-5 so far in September finished a scorching hot 12-4 to end the season then the Mets would only need to go 7-9 to finish above them and the Braves 8-8. Those teams also still have 3 games against each other so that’s guaranteed wins for one of those teams.

Basically the likelihood that the Cubs go 12 and 4 and both the Braves and Mets go under .500 the rest of the year is pretty unlikely and definitely not something worth stressing over as much as you clearly are.

[LouisEly]

3 hours ago, Brian said:

That is good news but why does my stomach do flip flops starting the 7th inning lately?

 

[Joseph Zarr]

Let's score more runs than the Giants tonight. Let's toss last night's debacle in the trash. Let's get some hot bats going for a change. I'm calling toward the baseball gods' quarters: Please, oh please, give us double digit Brewers runs tonight.

[willie key]

Can we win a damn series 

[adambr2]

The Cubs are 5-5 in September. They needed to continue their scorching August pace into September to have a shot and as expected, they regressed to the mean and could not. 

They have 16 games to make up 6 games on the Mets. That's assuming the Braves also suck because they have to catch them, too. 

The Cubs are irrelevant. Why do we expend so much time talking about them?

[brewfanmn]

39 minutes ago, adambr2 said:

The Cubs are 5-5 in September. They needed to continue their scorching August pace into September to have a shot and as expected, they regressed to the mean and could not. 

They have 16 games to make up 6 games on the Mets. That's assuming the Braves also suck because they have to catch them, too. 

The Cubs are irrelevant. Why do we expend so much time talking about them?

It’s so bizarre. Do all of these people spend this much time worrying about 2-in-1000 outcomes in the real world too? Or just baseball?

[Brewcrew82]

44 minutes ago, adambr2 said:

The Cubs are 5-5 in September. They needed to continue their scorching August pace into September to have a shot and as expected, they regressed to the mean and could not. 

They have 16 games to make up 6 games on the Mets. That's assuming the Braves also suck because they have to catch them, too. 

The Cubs are irrelevant. Why do we expend so much time talking about them?

It's not like we've suffered any recent late season/postseason heartbreak on account of the Cubs, either. You'd have to go back to the 2007 collapse when the Cubs caught us for the division to find anything worth crying over. 

Dodgers PTSD? Well warranted. Cardinals PTSD? Warranted, though much, much less so since La Russa, Pujols, and Molina all left and/or retired. The Cubs? Not very warranted. 

It's quite hard to comprehend. They literally had to steal our longtime manager to try to copy our success, and that's failed so far.....

[treego14]

58 minutes ago, adambr2 said:

The Cubs are irrelevant. Why do we expend so much time talking about them?

It's the Craig Counsell Factor!!!

[wiguy94]

36 minutes ago, brewfanmn said:

It’s so bizarre. Do all of these people spend this much time worrying about 2-in-1000 outcomes in the real world too? Or just baseball?

You're saying it's not normal for me to be afraid of driving my car and struck by lightning?

[willie key]

14 minutes ago, treego14 said:

It's the Craig Counsell Factor!!!

And they are other factor in Reducing the magic number.   Why is it so hard for people to understand that.    When the cardinals become the team that directly affects the magic number then they will be followed

thats it.  It’s actually fun at this point to watch a bunch of posters to try to come with ways to state “I care less about the cubs than you”

Once the brewers clinch the. You don’t need to follow the cubs results anymore.    It really isn’t that big of a deal.  Not as much as some seem to care    It’s really part and parcel to following a team to make the playoffs    You root for your team to win and the team directly behind you to lose until it’s over

 

[willie key]

40 minutes ago, Brewcrew82 said:

It's not like we've suffered any recent late season/postseason heartbreak on account of the Cubs, either. You'd have to go back to the 2007 collapse when the Cubs caught us for the division to find anything worth crying over. 

Dodgers PTSD? Well warranted. Cardinals PTSD? Warranted, though much, much less so since La Russa, Pujols, and Molina all left and/or retired. The Cubs? Not very warranted. 

It's quite hard to comprehend. They literally had to steal our longtime manager to try to copy our success, and that's failed so far.....

Yep it’s awesome.    We have really rubbed it in their face.   It’s made this season so enjoyable.   More than a normal playoff race.    Getting in the wild card for them would sour that some.     I’d rather they just go &@$( off sooner than later

 

and also there isn’t much else to talk about

[AKCheesehead]

Some more for the SF SP tonight:

"All I know is something like a bird

Within her sang

All I know she sang a little while

And then flew on

Tell me all that you know

I'll show you snow and rain"

[treego14]

[Dragonbait]

Sad news...

Hank the dog has died.

[yourout]

21 minutes ago, Dragonbait said:

Sad news...

Hank the dog has died.

Bummer.... how long was he with the Crew?

[willie key]

20 minutes ago, Dragonbait said:

Sad news...

Hank the dog has died.

Yeah

 

that was really great story ten years ago.     
 

let’s win it all for Hank!

 

 

[Underachiever]

Did BA just refer to Mitchell’s “hot bat”? Dude is 4-21 in September.

[Underachiever]

My job might require me to travel to San Francisco next year. I love that ballpark. Would love to get back there.