Mark A.

[SomewhereInTime]

On 8/25/2026 at 9:22 AM, Bulldogboy said:

I was watching the presser for new Padres owners and it got me to thinking is Mark A overrated or underrated as Brewers owner? I have slandered him plenty here for being cheap and zero world series is a bad look for him. On the other hand I remember before he was the owner this team was Trats quality and he does deserve credit for being good caretaker of the public trust. I am torn but I'm going to say slightly underrated for now and if he can get us over the hump it becomes a no brainer. I would love to see him raise the trophy once and for all because I think he deserves it but he also has the power to impact it with his wallet. Thoughts?

Incredibly underrated by this fanbase.  One of the best owners in the sport. 

[Jopal78]

3 hours ago, tmwiese55 said:

They'd have had it for the last like 4-5 years.  We have no idea what they would've done. Maybe the keep Hader, maybe they would've locked up Turang or Contreras. We have no idea.   Or even just whatever mediocre OF that would've been playing instead of him in the playoffs all these years might've done something to help the team win and go deeper.   We have no idea.   But chances are, as far as on the baseball field, that 25 mil per year would've been better spent elsewhere the last several years and the next two still to come.  But yea, who knows if they'd have won more rounds in the playoffs, etc. Its a funky game.  But we know yelich has contributed basically 0 in the playoffs all these years while being paid the most.

And you know there's no way they're going to publicly admit its handcuffing them.  But cmon, this offseason you have your DH slot locked into a 25 mil per year player who can't contribute anywhere on D and is likely to hit league avg or worse.  That in itself is handcuffing your roster building. 

And keep in mind this coming from someone who's a bit of yelich defender as far as he isn't as bad as folks make him out to be. He was perfectly good last year.  I think the bashing is a bit overblown.  But to me its clearly a mistake on the contract considering they would've known by the end of the original that he wasn't worth it.  I don't really know how it can even be argued otherwise. 

That’s baseball though. Almost every free agent contract where a player ages into their mid-30s and beyond ends this way, so it’s really hard to call it a mistake, it’s the norm. 

It’s not a winning trait of a GM to wonder if decisions in the here and now  might ultimately be mistakes a half decade down the road.

[sveumrules]

36 minutes ago, TwinsBrewersWorldSeries said:

I have to respectfully disagree.  Our regular season record has been great, but we have 2 playoff series wins in 10 years … that is slightly below league average

It's two series wins in eight years, didn't make their first playoff appearance until 2018. The Brewers 11 Postseason Wins since 2018 are 11th in MLB, and their 31 total games are 7th. Well over half the league would love to have 20 playoff losses since 2018 like the Brewers have.

The Nationals are one spot ahead of them with 12 Postseason Wins since 2018, and those all came in their 2019 World Series year. The Rangers are also ahead of them with 13 Postseason Wins since 2018, again all coming in their 2023 World Series year. Individual mileage will certainly vary, but I know I wouldn't trade the last eight plus years of Brewers baseball for a single World Series run.

The Dodgers made the postseason every year from 2013 to 2019 winning 33 more regualar season games than any other team over that stretch. They won zero WS. They finally broke their streak in the weirdened 2020 season, but went three more full seasons before finally winning a WS after a full season, and all they need to do it was to sign Ohtani to get over the top.

Eleven full seasons (plus a generational superstar on a barely legal contract) was all it took the Dodgers. The Yankees are going on their 16th full season since their last World Series win, with only one WS loss in the interim.

This is the ninth year of the Brewers run, and they've gotten better year over year for the last four seasons in a row now. The MLB roster is stacked with young, controllable talent with the #1 prospect baseball headlining one of the deepest farms yet on the horizon. Things are just getting started.

[rickh150]

When finances are a variable in all this, it is one of the most impressive things in sports. LIke a John elway career, this run jumps up to legend status with a WSchampionship.

[tomwopat]

On 8/27/2026 at 3:29 PM, hawing said:

I want to reiterate my extreme respect for the fans whose formative years with the Brewers fell between the 1993 and let's say 2007 seasons.  At least I had 1982 to remind myself that success was possible.  (And I thought about it, at least momentarily, at every game I attended between 1993 and the last week of the 2008 regular season.  Also after 2008 but with not as much longing.) 

My nephews, both in their 20s, are Brewers fans, partly due to their auntie (☺️) but I think the team's relative success in their lifetimes has played a part too. 

Oh: Fun fact that will make us all feel old. Remember the magic of the 2008 season (well documented in our forums)?  Most of this year's college freshmen were born that year.  💀

It's hard to imagine how little interest there was in the Brewers in the early 2000s, even with the novelty the new stadium. You'd never see anyone wearing Brewers gear and the franchise was too cheap for standard things like pre and post-game shows on TV. Jeffrey Hammonds, the largest FA signing at the time was a colossal flop that made Suppan look like a minor bump in the road.

Even the early Doug Melvin years when things seemed getting better, the team was pretty hard to watch at times, it took years to undo the rot of the years of negligence. The mid 2010's rebuild never had that feeling of hopelessness.

2007 was especially hard since the team seemed like it had the momentum to not only have it's first winning season since 1992 (!) which they narrowly missed in 2005, but also make the postseason for the first time since 1982. They had a commanding lead in the division early on and were leading as late as mid-September, but ended up losing the division by two games to the Cubs after fading down the stretch. Ned Yost was not a popular figure (https://web.archive.org/web/20071011113433/http://firenedyost.com/) which makes me chuckle a bit when I see the criticism of Murph.

[SomewhereInTime]

15 minutes ago, tomwopat said:

It's hard to imagine how little interest there was in the Brewers in the early 2000s, even with the novelty the new stadium. You'd never see anyone wearing Brewers gear and the franchise was too cheap for standard things like pre and post-game shows on TV. Jeffrey Hammonds, the largest FA signing at the time was a colossal flop that made Suppan look like a minor bump in the road.

Even the early Doug Melvin years when things seemed getting better, the team was pretty hard to watch at times, it took years to undo the rot of the years of negligence. The mid 2010's rebuild never had that feeling of hopelessness.

2007 was especially hard since the team seemed like it had the momentum to not only have it's first winning season since 1992 (!) which they narrowly missed in 2005, but also make the postseason for the first time since 1982. They had a commanding lead in the division early on and were leading as late as mid-September, but ended up losing the division by two games to the Cubs after fading down the stretch. Ned Yost was not a popular figure (https://web.archive.org/web/20071011113433/http://firenedyost.com/) which makes me chuckle a bit when I see the criticism of Murph.

Exactly this.  Here's an example of a Friday night home game in 2003.  Take a look at that attendance number.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/MIL/MIL200305160.shtml

[Baldkin]

On 9/1/2026 at 5:56 PM, Jopal78 said:

Hard to say. He’s likely not the best selling jersey but probably still Top 5. But retail marketing is weird. If somebody went into the store looking for Yelich themed merchandise and then bought something else. I don’t know how anyone outside a marketing team could quantify that but I’m sure they do. 

He barely cracks the top 20. 

[hawing]

On 9/4/2026 at 10:58 PM, tomwopat said:

It's hard to imagine how little interest there was in the Brewers in the early 2000s, even with the novelty the new stadium. You'd never see anyone wearing Brewers gear and the franchise was too cheap for standard things like pre and post-game shows on TV. Jeffrey Hammonds, the largest FA signing at the time was a colossal flop that made Suppan look like a minor bump in the road.

 

Bold above added by me.  This reminds me of the 2002 all-star game, during which I walked around just to take it all in.  I remember being struck by the sheer volume of Brewers gear on fans.  Nowadays that's a game day ending in Y.