OldSchoolSnapper
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Usually when this happens it's because the owner saw an opening for a dream candidate. I am fairly surprised. Maybe Belichick called. Half kidding as I don't think he'd want that one,
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We'll call it the 2nd round then. I don't even count it as the playoffs until the stupid 3 game thing is over. :)
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I hope everyone retains this energy in 10 years if the Brewers have made the playoffs 8 more times and not escaped the first round.
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It would say the same about an 82-game season but we have all seen how pointless that can be. With the new structure allowing 12 teams into the playoffs, it just isn't the case anymore. When you don't have to worry about fresh arms for the next 5 months or rest days for your best hitters over 30, it just isn't the same dynamic once you get to October. Baseball had it right with the one-game playoff to be the last team in, IMO. Winning your division really meant something. Not so much anymore. This has kept more teams in the running late into September, but in reality it has just made the teams forced to play Money Ball to have a large mountain to climb in October.
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No, what it should tell you is that after a level of success, standards are raised. That is normal and how it should be. I would assume most of us on this site are born in the 70s or 80s. Growing up, the whole goal was to just get the Brewers to the playoffs. That was it. They lost to Philly in '08 and it was still a huge success. When you have been there every year since 2018 with the exception of one year in which you were 10 games over .500, I'm sorry but it is no longer a success to just get there. It's time to start winning once you're there. I'm sorry, but I am really getting sick and tired of the tone of this forum being that if you are dissatisfied with all this October losing, you're being a baby or a spoiled fan.
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I think people are in denial about the luck/circumstance stuff. That has always been a factor in baseball more than other sports, but the structure is such that a playoff series, whether a best of 3, 5 or 7, is not regular season baseball. The Brewers can go 26 deep on the margins of WAR and have mastered that, but when you don't have to pick up wins over 162 games and you just have to win 3 times, talent of your best 10 or 11 is what counts. They might be able to beat 1 team, I don't see them being able to beat 3 or 4. They are losing these series because the opponents have more talented teams built to win head-to-head against the best. Can you look at any of these recent losses and say the Brewers had a better lineup than any of them?
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He was a crushing loss. That was really the point I knew they might get hot/lucky, but they were going to be limited by reality. You can't lose a guy like that on a roster like this and not pay a price for it. Problem is that I think it will be difficult getting him to the finish line any given year.
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It just feels weird GB is 3-2. It feels more like 1-4. Probably because of how meh Love has looked at times. I don't think the sky is falling, they just have appeared so mediocre it's hard to remember they are above .500.
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They are 2-10 in their last 12 playoff games, have not won a series since the 2018 NLDS. You can dress it up how you want, but they are stagnating. And when the manager is patting them on the back 10 minutes after choking the season away in crushing fashion, saying how great it is that they keep making the playoffs, it's fair to wonder how much ownership really cares about getting much further. Are they a well-run organization, yes, sure, yippee. Will they ever be able to win 4 playoff series? I am not too optimistic.
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Game 5: Packers @ Rams - Sunday, Oct 6th at 3:25PM
OldSchoolSnapper replied to CheezWizHed's topic in Other Sports
Honestly the defense is fine. It's not some all time force but if they keep taking the ball away at the rate they are that is more than you can hope for. They'll probably be fine but they are kinda rough to watch right now. I am sure by December they will be one of the contenders. -
Game 5: Packers @ Rams - Sunday, Oct 6th at 3:25PM
OldSchoolSnapper replied to CheezWizHed's topic in Other Sports
Hooray I guess. Lol. -
Game 5: Packers @ Rams - Sunday, Oct 6th at 3:25PM
OldSchoolSnapper replied to CheezWizHed's topic in Other Sports
We'll probably need those 10 seconds to score. -
That's what the experience of being a Brewers fan is.
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Show me results.
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If you can tie the game potentially with one possession, it's a one possession game. Aaron Rodgers looks cooked. The Jets experiment is a predictable disaster.
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Yeah. That's really been working out great for them. Swap out Williams for Hader and the same thing happened 5 years ago without any progress since.
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The odds of putting Josh Hader and Devin Williams on the mound to get a save in elimination game and going 0/2 can't be that great. I don't think anyone here needs it explained that postseason success isn't guaranteed. I just think we've crossed over into a zone where people are in straight up denial that this is "just baseball" and not acknowledging that our local teams have really, truly been losing in painful ways and more often than what is normal.
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Point of me saying there isn't a schedule is that "the future looks bright" very often doesn't equate to brightness. Packers won a Super Bowl and I was told the core was so young they'd be back multiple times. I was told the Brewers were ahead of pace in 2018. Had the Packers lost the 2010 Divisional, we'd have had people saying how bright the future was because Rodgers was so young. Reality is much harsher.
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There is no schedule. Said the same thing when the Packers choked away that divisional last year. The stage was set for a run. They had to beat the Lions. They had the game nearly in hand. The cope afterwards was "Love's first season, growth, exciting, rah-rah" etc. How good they'd be this year. And now look at them. Injured, in last place. Sure there is time to turn it on, but you just don't know. It's not just a linear ascension because you are "young." Every year you win 90+ is a opportunity and now it's a blown opportunity. They appear to be well-run and have some nice players. Sure. But it is an agonizing sport and you can't accept losses like last night because "the future is bright." Williams had to do the same thing he's done all year and he didn't do it.
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Clearing the bases in the 7th to go up 4-0 would have been huge. But nobody comes close to what Williams did. He deserves what he is getting.
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Yelich will be 33 coming off back surgery. Woodruff not much better. I think anything we get out of those guys is a bonus. I am not holding my breath. More excited about the continued development of the younger players. The most surprising thing would be either of those 2 finishing the season.
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I agree that Williams has never given me that lockdown feeling. He's always been more of a Turnbow experience for me, even just mentally. He has certainly been a better player, but that's always been my gut when he's out there. I think he needs to go though. I'm sure he'll be successful elsewhere, but he's Brandon Bostick at this point. Too much association with pain to have him walking around.
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I understand the sadness of the Uecker thing, I really do, but I wish there was some perspective, lol. The guy has made a fantastic living doing nothing but hanging out in the sport he loves, in the town he grew up in, and has never had to get a "real" job. I of course wish he could see them win, but I feel a lot worse for the random Briggs and Stratton employee who's been following this group for 40 years.
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OK? And cars crash when they are driven by people. Usually it's still somebody's fault.
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All that stuff is just much more abstract than Williams simply getting 3 guys out. I'm pretty surprised at how soft people are being with Williams. Hell, he could have given up a run or even 2, and he didn't even do that.
