What do the Brewers need to do for you to feel happy about this season?

[Turning2]

Win a playoff series. It wasn’t long ago that I was resigned to viewing the season as a development year. My interest was in watching young guys mature, seeing who played hard when the going was rough. Now that they have exceeded those expectations, I have to remind myself of where I was at back in May, and temper my post season requirements accordingly. They have shown they can play with anybody, so I think at least one series win gets that recent monkey off their back. 

[markedman5]

I’m all ready happy about the season…….its been a very fun ride.

Obviously I would love for it to end in a long playoff run with a championship at the end…. .but nothing is promised in sports and when you have a great season and it eventually ends….  Everyone is disappointed except for the winner.

It doesn’t take away from the enjoyment I’ve had watching this team for the last 139 games.

[greenlawler]

I have enjoyed this season a great deal, and I will have fond memories, 

But I am ready for the Brewers to win it all and I would be lying if I would be happy if they didn't. Been a fan sine 78, and it's been a long draught. 

[Sixtolezcano]

On 8/31/2025 at 8:04 PM, long ball said:

Like many of the posters have already said, I’m happy with the season. I love the daily soap opera of the regular season. Tracking the probables, the daily bullpen usage, the slumps, the hit streaks, the standings, the roster moves, the optimism. When your favorite team wins as much as the brewers have this season, especially when most of us had lower expectations coming into the year, it’s hard for me to not be happy. The regular season is months of happiness. We’ve seen how fleeting the playoffs can be. 
 

I’m going to being devastated in any outcome that doesn’t result in a World Series win. That feeling will pass after a few days and I’ll finish watching out the rest of the playoffs even if the brewers aren’t playing. Then we get to come back here and debate on who needs to be added to the 40 man, whether they should trade peralta, whether they can re-sign woodruff, whether they should tender Vaughn a contract, etc. 

This is how the majority of baseball fans (or any sport fans) view success. The one problem with this is; after winning a WS we will bathe in our joy all winter and once Spring Training begins in February it begins all over again, you have to win back-to-back, and then a 3-peat. The thing is it never ends. You will always be disappointed when your team doesn’t win a WS. An example would be, remember feeling the devastation when the Packers lost to the Broncos in the ‘98 SB after the utter joy you felt after the beating the Pats in SB XXXI. Most fans didn’t say at least we won it all last year.

[Outlander]

That disappointment is in the moment however. Would have liked if the Packers won more than one each with Favre/Rodgers but I still love watching highlights from those seasons and seeing the Super Bowl trophies every time I visit the Packers Hall of Fame. Having that one World Series Trophy would do so much for this franchise.

[SeaBass]

3 minutes ago, Outlander said:

That disappointment is in the moment however. Would have liked if the Packers won more than one each with Favre/Rodgers but I still love watching highlights from those seasons and seeing the Super Bowl trophies every time I visit the Packers Hall of Fame. Having that one World Series Trophy would do so much for this franchise.

The Brewers getting the monkey off their back would be awesome. But I look back at 2011 & 2018 with pretty fond memories too and they didn't make it to the WS. Tony Plush walking off the Diamondbacks, Brandon Woodruff hitting a HR off Kershaw. Fantastic stuff.

I kind of agree the shine of a championship fades pretty quickly. It's always ideal to have one, goes without saying.

The Bucks championship in '21 already feels like it was forever ago and the state of the team since then has just left me with a blah feeling. I'm still ecstatic they got one and the memories from it will last forever but it just goes to show how fleeting that crest of the mountain feeling is.

Anyway, I'm just so happy that the Brewers are in the position they're in right now and it looks like their future is just as bright. Hopefully that first championship comes, if not this season then in the next 2 or 3.

[BrewerFan]

27 minutes ago, Sixtolezcano said:

An example would be, remember feeling the devastation when the Packers lost to the Broncos in the ‘98 SB after the utter joy you felt after the beating the Pats in SB XXXI. Most fans didn’t say at least we won it all last year.

Not with the Packers, you're right there, but I did take that view with the Bucks. 

A lot of that is probably the disparity in the sports and expectations, but my expectations are different for all sports.

I have been disappointed and had feelings that the Packers kinda squandered one. 
The Bucks I'm just happy they got there and won one. 
The Brewers, I look at the group they have coming up and I think they should have a pretty big window. And more than that, Baseball is just flukey. But I still feel good about their chances.

 

I get what you're saying, but I think a lot of it is about the expectation of the team. The Packers had the best team in Football when they lost and they were supposed to be a dynasty. But fans always get greedy. 

The Eagles fans will be calling for Hurts to be benched and Sirianni to be fired if they start 2-3. 

[formerlybis]

I implore people to compartmentalize between the sustained excellence it takes to be the best team in baseball over 6 months and the possibility of a bad week in the playoffs against another high-end club.

My preemptive imploring won’t work, of course, and I really don’t want to be around this board when the know-it-all doomsayers get to do the I-told-ya-so routine.

[OldSchoolSnapper]

2011 hurt because I thought we had the best team and mismanagement doomed us. 2018 was heartbreaking especially after Yelich began Game 7 with a solo shot, but in the back of my head the whole postseason was that Boston was unbeatable. That may have been the best team ever.

My expectations are low. The season has felt too 'easy' with a nice a gap most of the post-ASG time. Winning a series would make me feel ok about things. Losing in the NLDS would be quite the letdown, but it's a distinct possibility. It's just not that hard to lose baseball games. We could lose NLDS to the Rockies if we played them.

[AKCheesehead]

Series at San Diego later this month.  A play near third takes Machado right into the path of a Brewer with a head of steam, and Manny gets just absolutely demolished.  I'm thinking maybe Danny Jansen. 

That, I think, could make the season feel good even if the Brewers were to stink up the postseason.  Plus it's been a really fun season as it is. 

[rickh150]

Winning a series, probably.  The franchise has won only 3 series, remember. 10 playoffs, 3 series wins, and 22-32 in playoff games.  Winning a series and finishing farther than the Cubs would probably be enough.   Happy but disappointed. 

[kestrel79]

You know my answer. Well I guess there's just only one thing left to do...