The 2025 season was tanked by Attanasio in one sentence and it was NOT misspoken words. I lost my hope and want it back. What a jerk.

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“Is my job to win a World Series," Attanasio said, “or is my job to provide a summer of entertainment and passion and a way for families to come together?"

This is really what this guy believes?..  No amount of explanation or redemption here.    The President just tanked the 2025 season in one swoop !   Sorry My Attanasio .. I AM SICK OF LOSING EVERY SINGLE SEASON!     This quote makes me not want to put in the time to watch baseball.   I can entertain myself with much better looking people than a summertime of baseball players if we are not serious about winning the World Series .     I am so sick to death of not getting their it could make me puke.       If this is what this guy believes man it really sunk my entire attitude about the Brewers moving into 2025.     If this guy thinks we are watching baseball for Family time he is completely sideways!   I want to win a World Series.   How long are we going to be told this team is broke when the truth is far from that and pretend it is real so rich people can get rich while we sit on team that has not won anything real EVER .     The 1980s and 1990s were HORRORS.   Winning enough to get to the playoffs only to be out after one series time and time again is not fun either.     It is less terrible than the former but it IS STILL LOSING!   

 

I grew up on meaningful quotes that taught us how to live life and win!   What this President just fed us was the biggest most horrifying statement in the history of any sports team,      He the Brewers want your money fans but they really are not aiming to win anything real.   That makes me want to throw up and IS NOT the message to take into the first Spring Training game of the season.     The fact it is being downplayed by the media to roll cover for what he said already is pretty spot on .    This guy just said "spend money on the Brewers fans but do not expect to win anything real because that is not our job as Brewers ."       I have never heard a statement more damaging to any sports teams brand that what this man just said in front of the entire world.      

"Being part of a *team is no different than being a part of any other organization—an army, a political party. The objective is to win championships, to beat the other guy every time you play them." 

"Our society, at the present time, seems to have sympathy for the misfit, the ne’er-do-well, the maladjusted, the criminal, the loser.It is time to stand up for the doer, the achiever, the one who sets out to do something and does it. The one who recognizes the problems and opportunities at hand, and deals with them, and is successful, and is not worrying about the failings of others. The one who is constantly looking for more to do. The one who carries the work of the world on his shoulders. The leader."

“Winning isn’t everything, it’s the only thing.”

“Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.”

    See the difference?   My goodness if you cannot say anything positive about the prospects of this team winning World Series just day before Baseball starts up again you should probably not take Media questions.     Just saying.     I know I feel less about the Brewers after hearing this than I did before .   If they are not serious about winning what the hell am I doing here?  No he did not get misquoted . No he actually does believe this and we are all suckers.     There is no real effort to win championships here unless this team gets insanely lucky someday and wins despite the ownership not caring if they go or not.     As long as the Brewers are pretending to be competitive that is more than good enough because it keeps ticket sales at record levels as they have been for going on 13 straight seasons.   As long as the Brewers make a playoff and compete in the Central NL that is more than profitable enough for Matt and that is all that matters.    Winning is not important in Milwaukee.  Only the appearance of winning is so ticket sales continue to make him rich while we get to continue to watch 160+ games per season and never get to join in the party .   I am not listening to those who throw cover for the bad people in charge of baseball.   

MAtt proved he is not there to help families either.  He is there to make himself money and we get to all suck on that as we make him rich with no hope of ever winning anything real ever.    THE BREWERS ARE NOT BROKE ! They are lying to everyone about the money they generate and you only need to look at their PUBLIC profits(not reported MLB revenue)to see the truth here.   Matt is only worried about pretending to be competitive.  He really only cares that the Brewers are making him money and his net value since buying the team has increase by double 4x.    His net value at the end of 2025 is projected to increase from $700 million and change to $900 million by seasons end as long as they keep up the facade that the Brewers are in the hunt.   I was willing to accept that in 2025 the reasons they were not spending money was because  they liked the roster.  When in truth they were not spending because they truly do not believe they have to when to keeping the money pouring in and increase his coffers win or lose.     

 

I won't be talking about this anymore but it bothered me and it should bother all fans everywhere.    I went from the most positive fan on the earth to the one who remembered why I quit watching baseball a couple decades back all in one sentence by a team owner.   I really thought this team turned a corner in that playoff to build something real here but Matt A made me see things as if they are and not as I want them to be with one dumb statement he should have kept to himself.    Sorry Matt I can take my family to the BEACH.  The ONLY reason we watch baseball is to see our Championships realized and if our family comes together over that it's a win win but none of us are going to games to have family time.  We can do that anywhere.   We come to watch the Brewers because we are ready to win a World Series.     Had the Dodgers owner said this during this offseason after winning World Series it would not be so bad.   The fact the Brewers owner said it makes it unforgivable.  For a franchise that is one of the rare few in sports who has never won anything real at all ever since induction what he said was confirmation of a truth that is ugly and evil.     We are all just engines for profiting one person.    It confirms we are not apart of helping a team win Championships and only a constantly income for people who are not serious about winning and who do not want to spend that profit they make on anyone who is not them.  Winning is not important to him.  So why is is important to anyone in the organization from the players to the managers?   Why is it important to us the fan?  One thing I know for sure I am not running cover for this franchise anymore.     When this type of statement is made it is a slap in our face and taking it as a fan should never be accepted.  HE needs to appologize publicly and he needs to make everyone believe we are here to win Series and that he was wrong in his thinking NOT that he said something misquoted or misunderstood to cover up that statement but a open realization that is an unacceptable viewpoint for someone who heads a team.   If he does not do this and fans accept the lie this was not what he meant we deserve to never win.     We have no power as fans besides where we spend money .    If they are not serious about this whole thing why should we be?

[Matt]

Here was the full quote

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“Sure.  Yeah.  It just has to be the right player at the right time in our life cycle.  I thought about this a lot when we did the contract with Yelich.  It’s great to have generational players that the fans can follow.  We had Yount… but you get into the question of ‘what is your job as the steward of baseball here’?

Is it my job to win a World Series, and now everyone is gonna say ‘oh, he doesn’t want to win a World Series’, but is my job to win a World Series or is my job to provide a summer entertainment and passion and a way for families to come together, because you don’t know when you sign someone.

I decided it was that moreso than what you would get for Christian Yelich in a trade and how that would go into the fancy computer model that Matt Arnold and his team have.  So I’m committed to that.”

 

It was awkward but fine.

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