Brewers (Gasser) vs Cubs (Boyd): 09/01/26, 6:40 PM

[jw5511986]

Hard to dislike anyone more than this guy

[adambr2]

Not a fantastic outing for Gasser but at least he went out on a good note.  

[BobbyD]

Wasn’t that the second missed challenge by cubs hitters? What about the “walk of shame” back to home plate?

[titletownking]

BA is so out of touch with everything involving this team. It’s comical if nothing else

[yourout]

1 minute ago, nate82 said:

Everything is hit on the ground so hitting it hard isn't really bad luck.  If he actually hits the ball with more launch angle then yes that would be fine.  But Yelich just can't consistently hit with an actual useful launch angle.  Which means he is going to hit a bunch of screamers to the SS or 2B on the ground.  

With a competent or average defense he is going to be out at a much higher rate.  Exit velocity is great but you have to combine with a decent launch angle.  Yelich has never been a good launch angle hitter.  It was working for him when he had elite bat speed and he could get to the balls up.  But now pitchers are just pitching him down in the zone and that low launch angle swing he has means he is just going to hit it on the ground.  Nothing will change with Yelich unless he starts getting more launch angle on his swing.  That low strike zone is basically his downfall right now as he can't lift pitches in the bottom third of the strike zone consistently.  He can consistently hit them but they are on the ground to an infielder.  

I actually think that excessive bat angle at launch is causing the swing to be a whip with too much launch angle and all kinds of rollovers. 

It's all about the swing path. Jake Bauers has one of the best swing paths on the team.

Yelich has a loopy swing path that he was able to get away with when he was younger with exceptional hand eye contact.

[ImissDougMelvin]

3 minutes ago, 82brewcrew82 said:

Very true.  I don't control any of it so I just can't get upset.

No offense to you, but since you posted this, this is one of my biggest pet peeves. When people say "don't worry about things you can't control". Ummm, those are EXACTLY the things you worry about, because if you can control something, why should you worry about it? You have control. That's never made any sense to me

[HarryDoyle]

5 minutes ago, BobbyD said:

Wasn’t that the second missed challenge by cubs hitters? What about the “walk of shame” back to home plate?

You're right. What are we missing?

[OldSchoolSnapper]

2 minutes ago, Marc Newfield of Dreams said:

Well, when you're consistently a great regular season team that struggles like hell in the postseason, shouldn't the focus shift?

I don't think so. You play 162 games. There is just no way to mask that. Can't do that without actually being really good. 

Luck is a much bigger factor in baseball than anyone wants to admit. The Dodgers have made themselves a bit of an outlier with their silly video game team, but I've never really seen it as some indictment on the Brewers that they happened to usually lose Wild Card games, Game 6s or 7s or one game play-ins. It's just kind of how it goes. 

I don't take anything out of 2011 or 2018 or 2025 other than we just happened to lose and it was painful. But I don't think it's some organizational failure.  

[Bulldogboy]

5 straight balls. Jeez

[titletownking]

Not one pitch was even close

[Cool Hand Lucroy]

Just now, Marc Newfield of Dreams said:

Well, when you're consistently a great regular season team that struggles like hell in the postseason, shouldn't the focus shift?

It depends on why you watch baseball. I think everyone understands that there's a certain kind of frustration in watching a very successful team repeatedly fail to advance to the World Series. I remember the frustration of watching a team fail to have a winning season for a decade. I FAR prefer the former to the latter. 

I also prefer the day-to-day progress of watching a team compete for a long-haul title over the peak emotional intensity of October.

It's all relative. Neither approach is better. I sometimes just think the "World Series or bust" folks get a little too hastily dismissive of a different kind of baseball fandom. Personally, I think wanting to win the NL pennant over everything is setting yourself up for disappointment and losing the process for the end result.

[adambr2]

You can take the pitcher out of the Colorado Rockies, but you can’t take the Colorado Rockies out of the pitcher. 

[82brewcrew82]

2 minutes ago, ImissDougMelvin said:

No offense to you, but since you posted this, this is one of my biggest pet peeves. When people say "don't worry about things you can't control". Ummm, those are EXACTLY the things you worry about, because if you can control something, why should you worry about it? You have control. That's never made any sense to me

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[just_some_guy]

I hope we see JoJo Romero tonight.  I don't know anything about him and I'm curious.

[BobbyD]

1 minute ago, HarryDoyle said:

You're right. What did I miss?

Oh, actually it was a Bill challenge that I’m thinking of. 

[82brewcrew82]

Great trade!

[titletownking]

A lot of K Rod in Senz

[TURBO]

2 minutes ago, Cool Hand Lucroy said:

It depends on why you watch baseball. I think everyone understands that there's a certain kind of frustration in watching a very successful team repeatedly fail to advance to the World Series. I remember the frustration of watching a team fail to have a winning season for a decade. I FAR prefer the former to the latter. 

I also prefer the day-to-day progress of watching a team compete for a long-haul title over the peak emotional intensity of October.

It's all relative. Neither approach is better. I sometimes just think the "World Series or bust" folks get a little too hastily dismissive of a different kind of baseball fandom. Personally, I think wanting to win the NL pennant over everything is setting yourself up for disappointment and losing the process for the end result.

That's all well and good for the fan of a team that hasn't ever won a World Series, and who is ok with that happening forever.

I want a World Series title.  We've done everything else, it's time.

My two goals every season are always the same.

1. Win the Central.  Because winning your division is fun, and if we win it, the Cubs and Cardinals don't!

2. Win the World Series.  Because I've never felt that feeling, and want to do so.

[82brewcrew82]

Ope, the super team is showing cracks

[yourout]

It's now or never boys.

[adambr2]

We need to leave this inning tied. 

[willie key]

How this team has the best record in baseball is just an indictment on the state of the game.   

[Opening Day]

In the words of the great American poet Trevor Megill, "Lets ***** go!!"

[Marc Newfield of Dreams]

4 minutes ago, Cool Hand Lucroy said:

It depends on why you watch baseball. I think everyone understands that there's a certain kind of frustration in watching a very successful team repeatedly fail to advance to the World Series. I remember the frustration of watching a team fail to have a winning season for a decade. I FAR prefer the former to the latter. 

I also prefer the day-to-day progress of watching a team compete for a long-haul title over the peak emotional intensity of October.

It's all relative. Neither approach is better. I sometimes just think the "World Series or bust" folks get a little too hastily dismissive of a different kind of baseball fandom. Personally, I think wanting to win the NL pennant over everything is setting yourself up for disappointment and losing the process for the end result.

I don't think it's as either-or as you make it out to be. I watch em almost every night. I love baseball and this cursed team my grandparents stuck me with. 

But damn is it frustrating to see the same shortcomings year over year. Call it luck, call it economics, whatever. When the chips are down in October this offense shrinks. 

[adambr2]

1 minute ago, willie key said:

How this team has the best record in baseball is just an indictment on the state of the game.   

Well I assure you that the average MLB record will be .500, just like every other season.