OldSchoolSnapper

The Brewers have been highly successful and in the last decade are one of the best-run franchises in all of sports. It's also completely natural for the fan base to have a skepticism at this point and demand a championship, and not care all that much about having the best record in August. Totally natural progression that comes with long-term success in the regular season. I don't begrudge anyone for being "spoiled" at this point, because quite honestly with 0 titles nobody has been spoiled. Both things can be true.

My guess is they still practice squad McCord and keep Taylor, preferring the vast magnitude of actual real game experience. Love is fairly likely to miss a week or two at least. Maybe the chance to cut him at just the loss of $700k guarantees turns the tide though. In the overreactions category, Marshawn Lloyd looks pretty bad. Smack looks like the real deal and the kicker I've wanted for years. Still have to see what he does kicking a 43-yarder to win the game, or hitting 50 in January.

I am not one of those fans that says "this is our year" every year, but I've been telling friends and family for a few months that this is our year, and I believe it. We have a few years of playing in October under most of their belts. Miz is the difference maker that can singlehandedly win a game. The way he pitched last year in huge moments made me think he was something different than our usual definition of ace. There is enough starpower/talent in the lineup. The one concern I had was the bullpen and it has rounded itself out quite nicely. I just have a stronger gut feeling this season than I remember having probably since 2011, when I still think we had the best team in the league and RR bungled it. A great time to be a Brewers fan. I'm not too wound up about where they ultimately finish. The bye is big, but I just believe that fate is going to be Counsell watching Murphy bring the championship to Milwaukee.

PB has long been a joke, but Nixon isn't bad, he's just not good and shouldn't be your best CB. He's probably middle of the road CB2, so somewhere in the top 50 of corners. But my point was more that it's an area of concern on the team for me, but if he's actually being outplayed they may have solved the problem with the additions.

It's a great sign that Nixon isn't happy with his standing in that CB room. He isn't good and if they're actually outplaying him and it's not coachspeak, that's a good thing.

MLF, not even close. We've got the new Marvin Lewis.

Yeah. That's sounds exactly how the Brewers FO works. They log into Reddit and see that the fans want a trade and then just say, "Let's just get someone because brewboy_85 wants us to do a trade."

Solid pickups. About the move I expected. Not sexy, mocked by trolls, both will end up being major pieces of the stretch run. Didn't part with anyone I had really high hopes for.

You might say Zach Tom is out indefinitely...

You could also fire on all cylinders on July 29 and lose anyway. Nobody think it's guaranteed but you play the high probability path. I personally wouldn't care if they told Miz to go fishing for 6 weeks.

And even he had a lousy playoff start that sunk the ship.

If they lost to the good teams the rub would be that they aren't good enough to beat the best. They lose to the crappy ones and it's a "bad look." It's baseball and they are going to have skids. I wouldn't quite say the division is wrapped up but it is in good hands, the playoffs are a lock, and the Cubs welcome the Yankees and Dodgers once they finish with St. Louis. They're fine. They need the top arms ready for October. Nothing outside of that really matters right now. Even if 1-9 were raking it wouldn't mean much 2 months from now.

I keep hearing things like this, online and from my friends. I don't really agree. The fact is that on paper the Brewers are still a valley away from LAD when it comes to starpower. Sending off our best assets, who are kids on the farm, for a rentals or one single veteran, is just not something that I think does anything to combat what LAD is. Let's say we landed Jose Ramirez tomorrow, it wouldn't make anybody say we're the favorite against the Dodgers. I don't think Skubal does that for them either. I think we're better off on the boring path, continuing to draft, develop, and be there every year, knowing that eventually, either LA goes cold and loses before we even play them, or it happens when they play us. That's really it for me. We just can't afford to trade our kids. Yes even if there's an alleged logjam at a position, we don't actually know who pans out at the MLB level. I just don't see the appeal of doing it when we're incredibly successful doing it our way.

Eh. They have big assets tied up in Wyatt, Parsons, Hargrave, picked up LVN's option. He asked for a trade because they can't get a long-term deal done. Turns 32 around the Super Bowl. Plays about 50% of the defensive snaps. Wants to play in California. They can't afford him.

The upcoming fan art hat logo though, is one of the best things I've ever seen.