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That's all fine but some genie lamp scenario where I have a guaranteed outcome doesn't help any of that. I guess there's nothing enjoyable and zero dopamine rush from watching a result I already know. It's just dumb to me. I wouldn't answer "yes" to any of those guaranteed outcomes. Like if you asked me if I sent the NFL $1 and it would guarantee the Packers a Super Bowl I'd say no because it removes all the elements that actually makes that fun to witness. The bulk of what made the Bucks championship so cathartic was the number of times they looked dead and out.
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I'm surprised people are willing to take that trade off. The whole thing that makes it "entertainment" even if this isn't particularly enjoyable at the moment, is not knowing the outcome. Knowing that we for sure win tomorrow and then for sure get swept, removes that element completely. At that point you're watching a movie for which you already read the Wikipedia. I'm also not buying at all that the Dodgers are some unbeatable team of Gods. That bullpen has been awfully susceptible at times this year. They were definitely a beat below what they've been in other seasons.
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I hope not because that would require him to be playing.
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Meh. This opinion is probably about 80% of the fanbase at the moment, and you can't blame anybody for feeling like it. Most of the attendees tomorrow night are probably expecting a Brewers loss.
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Nah. That's giving up an awful lot even if our odds of winning tomorrow are like 10%. Plus there's nothing enjoyable about "guaranteed" wins. I also don't think starting Uribe is nuts. He's exactly who I'd go with. I don't care who closes the game, I've seen how that movie ends with our "closer," I would just stick with the guy who pitched the 8th if it's somebody who can still throw.
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Although I'm in that boat and was born after it, I think that's a pretty gross simplification. Diehards born around 1975 likely have at least some memory of that loss. That's somebody who is 50 today. That's a lot of people.
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Last year is also in the running. This would be worse, but you don't really get gut punches much worse than last year. At home of course, in Uecker's last game.
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No. That's Game 7 of the World Series. They had a 3-1 lead in the mid 6th. Recency bias just can't erase that. 2018 hurt, but I never thought we'd get by the Red Sox that year. 2011 you can make a strong case we had the best team in baseball, but we never even pushed to a Game 7, so...I would place this loss 2nd worst ever. The context makes it a lot worse, even though the stakes are lower.
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I agree, I would start someone else, pray they get three outs in no more than 4 betters, put a 0 on the board, and hand the ball to Miz with your fingers crossed. I would honestly consider starting Uribe. Him closing the game doesn't matter if it's 3-0 again right away.
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I'll just add I'm completely sick of takes like this being manipulated as "negative." At some point enough is enough. We're well past that and need to win something. It's just excuses at this point. There is no payroll or market size argument to be made for this kind of disappointment. When you win 90+ consistently, you are good enough to win a single series. I don't care if we're using volunteer players. It's lame, half the roster is going to make $300mm somewhere else in a few years.
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I'm so glad I won't be able to watch this, at least not the first 90 minutes or so, so I can make a choice to tune in if it's close. It's Miz for me. The only player that looked like an absolute stud for a month, with the most talent. That's the kind of player he needs to become anyway. Put the ball in the talent's hands and ride with the outcome.
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I'm kinda OK with that especially if Chourio can't run as well as you'd like. I want Jackson in more of an RBI spot especially when you have Joey Ortiz preceding him in the order. I don't have huge issues with the order. It's the insistence on Perkins and Ortiz driving me nuts, but most of all Turang just completely sucking. Enough with Ortiz. Put Mona in the lineup.
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Keep Your Playoff Tickets Off Secondary Markets!
OldSchoolSnapper replied to rickh150's topic in Milwaukee Brewers Talk
Higher stakes but the opponent was largely benign as far as Milwaukee goes. Also not a series we were really expected to win, though we certainly could have. Losing in this manner to the Cubs, in my opinion, is a worse black eye on our history. -
Lots of blah blah. Win a series. That's what I'm asking. Win a single series. This is just a big strawman. "If they did this, you'd say this." Yeah, no. Win a series against your biggest rival that you beat for the division title, got to play at home, and led 2-0. They've made the playoffs 6 of the last 7 years and have not advanced once. Stop acting like that's acceptable, or the result of being a small market. It's just failure.
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Unpopular opinion, I'd throw Miz. He is the only guy with the talent to just overwhelm batters and blow right by them, which is what I'd bet the house on. Hope that the most talented pitcher you have is "on." I fully expect any of the other suggested starters to walk the bases loaded or give up another catastrophic HR. I could see Miz doing that too, but I am rolling the dice on the highest upside because I think that's what has to happen for us to win. And I'm with Adam. This is the most important game for this franchise in the last 8 years. Losing this game, in this fashion, to the Cubs is going to be worse than losing the last two NLCS.
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It's worse for the Brewers as many have been involved in these prior choke jobs. They can say all the right things, everybody knows they're all thinking "not this again, really?" You could probably insert a Sunday lineup for every playoff game and just by chance, you'd win one of these last six series. It's incredible what they're on the verge of pulling off. Getting punked in a decisive Game 5 at home, against your biggest rival, led by the hometown kid manager who bailed for a few extra dollars, in a series you led 2-0 after setting a franchise record for wins and beating said team for the division title, is about the most Milwaukee sports outcome I can possibly imagine. I don't know what's left to hope for after that. I genuinely think this will drive me to just become a box score checker the day after. I can't keep investing in this.
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Yeah...no. It's the realistic fan. It's the fan that's expecting history to repeat itself. Because it's all that has happened to this franchise since the dawn of time. I've accepted that destiny is for 30k depressed Brewers fans to silently file out of AmFam while Craig Counsel is doused in Gatorade and chants of Let's Go Cubbies echo off the roof.
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Yeah we suck. Game over. Season over. Only the Brewers would humiliate themselves like this. Repeatedly. Started in '19 with that Hader meltdown and it's been a comedic failure since then. They will never change. Never.
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I hate the walk there even though it makes no sense. It just feels like such a rally killer. If we get nothing across here I'm calling it a night. If we tie the game I'm making a bourbon cider.
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I'll be moderately surprised if we score 2 runs between now and Saturday night. I've accepted death already.
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Such a lame excuse. They've made the playoffs every year but one since 2018 and haven't won a single series since then. I've watched Atlanta, Tampa, Kansas City and Arizona play in recent World Series games. Seattle and Toronto are in the running right now.
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They don't choke they just suck. The Packers and Brewers invent unbelievable ways to fail in situations that it's nearly inconceivable to do so. It's not en vogue to just be bad. You have to be good but find a way to choke. You can throw the Bucks in for honorable mention too. Losing to 7 and 8 seeds, losing a playoff game up by 8 with 30 seconds left or whatever.
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Maybe the Packers. 1A and 1B.
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I'm out. Best wishes to those of you suffering through this one. It's got 14 stranded runners, 8 hits and 0 runs written all over it.
