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Oh man, this post pretty much guarantees it will happen! edit: or, not

press?

Did the Brewers have a better at bat, all year, than Yuni's right there?

So many foul balls off of Greinke. I wonder if he gives up more than other pitchers.

Not really that upset about that inning. I don't know why.

TLR will be so upset that the Brewers had the gall to go 7 with the Classies, nonetheless to load the bases in the bottom of the 9th of a tie game, that he'll order Carpenter, who has just pitched 8 2/3 scoreless innings, to hit Tony Plush, driving in the winning run...

I've had more time to think about this and I'm just very happy to have watched the Brewers win the NLDS given how improbable that has seemed for the 25 or so years I've been a conscious Brewer fan. The Cardinals deserve to be here, and they've been great for the last month. Losing to them would hurt of course, but the Brewers deserve to be here too and I'm hoping I'll just be able to enjoy that about this series. I think the 2 right teams from the NL have made it. How great is it that one is the Brewers!?

Not happy about this at all. Home field is nice, but losing to them would be painful.

I'm happy for BF.net. Keep winning Crew!

I'm happy for BF.net. Keep winning Crew!

Yep. I don't want the Cards to win, even though I know they are more beatable. Just don't like them and can't pull for them, regardless.

I'm sorry for ever doubting you Crew. Unbelievable.

It's hard to believe that this might actually happen.

double play. 3 more to get.

I'd have to say that if they do collapse this year, I'd probably be done. Why would I post this here as it makes me seem like a terrible fan, which I might be? Because BF.net over the last 7 years or so has made me a bigger and more knowledgeable fan than I ever was for the 20 or so years before that. What I've found is that I've become someone who really enjoys 'following' baseball, and the Brewers in particular, but that I've really lost interest in actually watching the games. Maybe that's not as odd as I think it is, but I rarely watch more than a few innings, and only once or twice a week. So, why would I stop doing these things if the Brewers collapse? Because of the reasons GAME05 so eloquently articulated above. Each game is unique, and I continue to see things I've never seen, which I think is great. However, for the last 15 years or so, every season has been essentially the same story, and I think it's pathetic that I feel privileged to be a Brewer fan rather than a Pirate fan, or a Royals fan, or a fan of so many other teams with no chance in the foreseeable future. The Brewers are going to lose Prince, in order to make a run they have to obliterate the farm system (even if it is better than many experts say it is), and then that run hamstrings them for who knows how many years. Why 'follow' something that is the same year after year? This is where I'm at, and I'm sure there are good responses to that question. I absolutely enjoy watching Ryan Braun, but for me it's more a metaphor for wasted talent than it is one of fighting against the odds. That's because of my basic pessimism, but I hate that baseball, and really sports in general, accentuates that part of my personality. As a matter of personal sanity, then, I'd have to become even more detached from any one team, and my team happens to be the Brewers. In its place, I'll continue to attend games of my local minor league clubs, because there I get what I like more about baseball: the unpredictability of any one game, of any particular pitch, and the chance to watch it while enjoying the weather and not particularly caring about the cumulative season.

I complain every time it's bad, so thanks for making it fun right now, Crew!

He's got to be among the league leaders in backwards K's.

I haven't watched the Brewers much lately, and I thought, well, I should. I turned it on to see the 2 Philly homeruns. Come on Brewers, make it fun again!

I'm not anxious because I've given up. So I'm at peace. Now, objectively I know that's ridiculous because the Crew are still 6 up and the last 4 losses have come to 4 excellent pitchers. I never really believed they were as good as they played in August and I don't think anybody did, and I still, in the end, believe that they will hold on to win the division once this predictably hard stretch against StL and Philly is over. What's most annoying about it is that right now it's not any fun, and this is supposed to be fun, otherwise why watch? So, I've been a very hands off fan since the StL sweep in Milwaukee.

Funny how the confident feeling I (never really) had last week about this team feels so far away.

Yes, that's the game. It was a no hitter, into the 8th I think, and then it nearly fell apart... Joe Inglett had a hit during the Bule Jays near come back, if I remember right.

True, but I was at the 2008 game against the Blue Jays were they nearly blew a 7 run lead in the 9th. Yes, they did win, but it left a permanent scar on my psyche. I almost feel worse when they are up by more than 4. I know it's irrational, but I just felt like sharing...

I'm making the 6 hour drive to Pittsburgh tomorrow. Keep it up, Crew!

well, more exciting than it should have been. I'm glad I'm not a Mets fan.

Thanks for this.