OldSchoolSnapper
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Well it didn't really make any sense. I made a comment about people telling me 10 years from now if they still haven't gotten out of the first round, that it's still "just bad luck." You said you'd expect me to have the same energy, which, after 10 years, why wouldn't you? Lol. Just a bad joke. And who is miserable? This is what drives me insane around here. Simply making an observation that isn't rainbows and unicorns doesn't make anyone "miserable." I am a Brewers fan that doesn't think they are a legitimate contender in MLB's landscape, the same way that an 8th seed isn't a contender in the NBA. It's not nearly as extreme as the NBA, but that is how I see the Brewers. They will have to fall on EXTREME fortune to ever win a WS, but forget about that, they can't seem to get out of the Wild Card as of late. Winning the division excited me 12 years ago; now that half the league gets into the playoffs and we've done it 10 times, it's not really that satisfying anymore. Personally I think it's weird to feel otherwise, but w/e I guess. Sure it is better than winning 60 games and being cooked by May 10, but why is that the only alternative?
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Even more remarkable that we managed to never be 1 or 2 and also not advance.
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I never care at all after we get knocked out. Yankees already have a million, what's a million and one.
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I've already accepted Winker is going to win World Series MVP because that's just how this works,
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I think the Brewers will win a lot of games moving ahead. I am less convinced they have the prized pieces necessary overcome the biggest obstacles. Although Chourio sure looks like one.
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The Dodgers are definitely a disappointment to their own fans I am sure, and fun to laugh at, but let's not pretend they are failing like the Brewers as far as gross results. They have been to the LCS or WS 5 times since 2013, 6 if we count that fake year they won it. Just my opinion, but the Brewers inability to advance to 2018 can be tracked directly to the lack of premium bats in their lineup over that timespan. Maybe this year they had a couple, but they unfortunately sucked or were hurt in that 3-game span. They basically had one guy come through this time and he isn't of legal drinking age.
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We currently sit on top of the league with 14 takeaways, which is what I would rank #1 importance for any defense. 9 of them are INTs, which tend to be a much less random thing than fumbles. Nobody is perfect, but if we continue taking the ball away, we will be in a position to make a run late in the season. Honestly, the 7 giveaways are what I'd like to see fixed before anything else. That is a very easy thing to fix, or at least it should be.
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You are really taking that way too literally. Of course every team that wins 90+ games isn't faux competing. The larger point was that stacking regular season wins isn't what it used to be. The Brewers had a good season by most measures, but even the more optimistic posters here noted pretty much all year that they appeared to be a clear No. 3. Most people readily accepted that they were not really on the same echelon as Philly or LA. That doesn't mean you can't beat them, because baseball, but I think most would agree it was true. You've seen this for years in the NBA where there are numerous teams every year winning between 47 and 55 games, but nobody really takes them seriously for one reason or another, and they basically always fall well short of a championship because of some very obvious thing; in the past it was the lack of a big man, now it's generally lack of star power. Because their playoffs are drastically different from their regular season. MLB is trending that way with these expanded fields.
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I mean, yes, anyone can do it, and it's not outside the realm of possibility, but I would say it is substantially harder now than it was for KC when they did it. the Rangers would have a 3 gamer with the Angels, the Yankees couldn't get knocked out in 1 game like they were. The Royals were a great team, but the AL was also quite bad that year, now that I look at it.
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Bingo. Exactly the point I was making. Doesn't really make sense to draw parallels to the last 100 years when they have drastically altered it in the last 10. If sabremetricking your way to 2 or even 4 playoff spots worked, that would be very different than what we have right now, which is inching closer and closer to the NBA. "Just let them rest, we can get the 5 seed and then overpower the Brewers."
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Probably because prior to a few years ago you usually had to win that many games to have a chance. It's a moot point when you can have the 6th best record in your league and still make the "postseason." Winning a division title? You better be 1st or 2nd because that 3rd one isn't worth a whole lot.
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What a weird dig. I would expect that most would be disappointed if something like that happened. Then again maybe not considering how happy this place seems to be about getting knocked out of the wild card repeatedly. Everyone keeps talking about the World Series, too. There exists a middle ground between winning the World Series and what the Brewers are doing, which to be perhaps overly harsh, could be labeled as faux competing. Sure they are making it, but no one really considers them a contender.
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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.
