Wild Card Round: game thread

[Frisbee Slider]

2 minutes ago, Brian said:

The Brewers finished the season series with a 7-6 record against the Cubs 2025. 

Sounds like Google AI to me. Cubs couldn’t have had the tie breaker with that record 🙂

[markedman5]

3 minutes ago, Brian said:

The Brewers finished the season series with a 7-6 record against the Cubs 2025. 

Huh? Cubs won it 7-6.

[RWeeksFan23]

On 9/29/2025 at 4:08 PM, bm1090 said:

Define schedule 

 

[Brewluver]

18 minutes ago, bm1090 said:

Also they beat us 3 of 5 at Wrigley not 3 of 4.

I only watched 4 of them 😁

[Brewluver]

11 minutes ago, markedman5 said:

Huh? Cubs won it 7-6.

It's the roids dude 

[Brewluver]

26 minutes ago, bm1090 said:

The padres beat us in the season series too. Horton is out until game 5. The cubs pitching is significantly worse than the padres in a 5 game series. Their offense has scuffled. Other than the fact that it’s the Cubs, it feels like a no brainer.

Today, the Cubs bullpen didn't allow a base runner 🫢

[BruisedCrew]

1 hour ago, Brian said:

If the Cubs don't hit home runs they don't score hardly at all. Remember that! 

Hitting home runs is often the key to playoff games where it is difficult to string together hits against the best pitchers on the best teams. 

As they showed today the Cubs ability to hit HRs is an important asset for them. 

[willie key]

Just be careful what you wish for.   All the angst about trying to get home field advantage for the playoffs and the first series will effectively not have any home field advantage other than batting last 3 out of 5 games

[karl]

my CUBS get the game 1 win, hoping you follow suit, Cubs/Brewers matchup would be epic and very exciting for both fan bases

 

[owbc]

16 minutes ago, karl said:

my CUBS get the game 1 win, hoping you follow suit, Cubs/Brewers matchup would be epic and very exciting for both fan bases

 

The Cubs would be playing with house money in that series. 

The Brewers are in danger of this entire era being tainted by quick playoff exits. 

If we end up winning I guess it would be exciting in retrospect. 

[treego14]

Just now, owbc said:

The Cubs would be playing with house money in that series. 

The Brewers are in danger of this entire era being tainted by quick playoff exits. 

The Cubs are in danger of being embarrassed by their tiny small-market neighbor not only winning the division routinely BUT also sweeping them out of the playoffs!

 

[BruisedCrew]

19 minutes ago, karl said:

my CUBS get the game 1 win, hoping you follow suit, Cubs/Brewers matchup would be epic and very exciting for both fan bases

 

Do you know that the Brewers aren’t playing in the wild card series?

I do hope they follow suit by winning the first game of the NLDS against your cubs. 

[markedman5]

It appears runs are ….as usual …..hard to come by in the playoffs 

[willie key]

I’m assuming the cubs fans have already declared the series over with a couple of them showing up already 

[willie key]

Baseball sure has changed in the past decade or two.    Red Sox Yankees playoff series would have taken over the national discussion on every channel

Now it’s just a regular series with not much hype.  I do wonder if the overbearing use of advanced stats when taking about baseball has turned off the casual fan on these talk shows etc.    

 

I think the casual baseball fan is almost nil nowadays 

[Cool Hand Lucroy]

Well, we'll see if the Padres can get a game tomorrow. I think we'll all be rooting for that, since the series going 3 is clearly better for us (even if the impact is limited by the number of off days).

I'm fully with everyone who doesn't want the emotional risk of playing the Cubs in the NLDS. I've been low-key dreading a playoff matchup with them for months. But, if I look at it objectively (as in, if I put, say, Pirates jerseys on the Cubs roster), I'd clearly rather face that team than San Diego. Factor in travel and familiarity and scouting, and I think it might be the better matchup for us.

I still don't want to play them. But, if we do, I'll probably do what I can to detach myself a little bit from the more annoying parts of the series (maybe spending less time in the game thread, muting the sound on the TV if needed, avoiding more of the post-game narratives if we lose, etc.) and just generally try to get super zen about the fact that this is baseball and no one controls the outcome, and anything else is just noise. 

 

[Brewluver]

I'm hungry.

[bm1090]

1 hour ago, willie key said:

Baseball sure has changed in the past decade or two.    Red Sox Yankees playoff series would have taken over the national discussion on every channel

Now it’s just a regular series with not much hype.  I do wonder if the overbearing use of advanced stats when taking about baseball has turned off the casual fan on these talk shows etc.    

 

I think the casual baseball fan is almost nil nowadays 

I don't know. When I go to AmFam and listen to the fans talk, over 99% of the chatter is casual/dumb. I think there are tons of casuals, and ratings jumped this year.

[willie key]

11 minutes ago, bm1090 said:

I don't know. When I go to AmFam and listen to the fans talk, over 99% of the chatter is casual/dumb. I think there are tons of casuals, and ratings jumped this year.

There is. Massive difference between people attending games.    You don’t have to be a hardcore fan to attend games.   That’s an experience that everyone enjoys

im talking more about discourse around the water cooler, talk shows.     Watching on tv.   Following scores.    Knowing the players.      I just don’t think there is any of that nowadays.      People talk about their own team and that’s about as far as it goes

 

like I said.    ESPN would have spent days talking about this series in 2004

[bm1090]

7 minutes ago, willie key said:

There is. Massive difference between people attending games.    You don’t have to be a hardcore fan to attend games.   That’s an experience that everyone enjoys

im talking more about discourse around the water cooler, talk shows.     Watching on tv.   Following scores.    Knowing the players.      I just don’t think there is any of that nowadays.      People talk about their own team and that’s about as far as it goes

 

like I said.    ESPN would have spent days talking about this series in 2004

Yeah that makes sense. I was 14 in 2004 but I remember watching that series and the constant coverage of it.

[willie key]

3 minutes ago, bm1090 said:

Yeah that makes sense. I was 14 in 2004 but I remember watching that series and the constant coverage of it.

They might have added a whole channel called espn ny sox or something like that for the whole week. 😀😀😀

[bm1090]

this ump in the Reds Dodgers game is READY. Wonder if he'll call strikes that loud all night.

Ohtani is incredible.

[Underachiever]

I certainly expect to see a different Dodgers team beginning today.

[adambr2]

2 hours ago, willie key said:

Just be careful what you wish for.   All the angst about trying to get home field advantage for the playoffs and the first series will effectively not have any home field advantage other than batting last 3 out of 5 games

I'm definitely not wishing for the Cubs, and it’s going to suck having so many Cub fans in Milwaukee (although Wrigley will also be infiltrated with Brewer fans like they were in Game 163 in 2018), but we haven’t had a losing record at home against the Cubs since 2018.

Being the home team is still a big advantage. Batting in the bottom of the inning allows you to have last crack and know what you need to win and play for it. It’s a big part of HFA.

[Cool Hand Lucroy]

4 minutes ago, Underachiever said:

I certainly expect to see a different Dodgers team beginning today.

Yeah, I've watched one inning of Dodger playoff baseball, and I'm already thinking I was a little crazy for wanting the two seed lol. It's (almost) October! Let the moment-by-moment emotional swings commence!