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I was going to say the same thing. At least this time they decided to give the Brewers some credit for over-performing each season. This is a totally fine prediction.

I would be interested in this topic, as well. My wife retired in May and I’m planning on the same within the next few years and we’ve already said we’re going to take a few years and visit every MLB park once we’re both free to travel as we like. The plan right now is a region of the country at a time for MLB and National Parks, but maybe a touring company would be better. Curiously waiting….🙂

Hey, that doesn't rhyme!!! IMPOSTER!!!!!! 😄

I loved everything about that. except the P.S. 😄

Well, let's see . . . Freddy . . . things finally caught up to him after a full season of really good pitching. He still pitched well in the playoffs but not nearly as well as during the season. Woodruff . . . hurt again at the worst possible time. Sorry to say, I think it's time to cut bait as he's become unreliable in a way. Priester . . . the guy was good and Murphy supported him completely. And then game three in Chicago happened and suddenly Murph didn't trust him anymore. Miz . . . he pitched poorly the last month or so and, thus, Murph didn't trust him anymore. His playoff pitching might have changed things for the future. Hopefully. Quintana . . . what do you expect when (pardon me if you've already heard this before) he got hurt at the worst possible time and then (again, I apologize) Murph didn't trust him anymore Patrick . . . he pitched brilliantly then got sent down for Miz and it's like Murph kind of forgot that he was really good. He showed his stuff in the playoffs (867-ft. Ohtani home run excluded) Myers . . . he pitched brilliantly last year but got hurt or didn't do well in spring training (don't remember which) and, thus, Murph lost confidence in the guy. (I'm sensing a theme here. I don't know why? [/blue text] Henderson . . . he pitched brilliantly and then got hurt, blah, blah, blah Civale . . . who cares, honestly? Unfortunately, we don't have the luxury of putting our pitchers on the IL in the middle of the season to save up their arms for the post-season. We just don't have a team that can say, "eh, we'll still win 90 games regardless." Injuries, even though they're relatively minor, are kind of alarming that they all seem to happen near the end of the season so we have no real horses for the playoffs. I wonder if they'll address that at all in the off-season.

it was "our" World Series. For what that's worth. Hope. Springs. Attorney.

I concur. It totally spoke of bad juju. I said it then (not on the website, but to friends) and I’ll say it now. I like the comparison to the sweep suits.

Well, they finally got some audio on! ……….its the Dodgers’ broadcast. On the WTMJ feed. Must be having problems. Or the aforementioned fee that Kent Summerdelt must not have paid

Wow. That was a bomb. must be nice….

Nice. MLB Audio has dead air for WTMJ’s broadcast

These are just my thoughts. I doubt any traction could be made on these ideas, but in a perfect universe, I'd love to see some these implemented: --A salary floor. Make teams pay "competitive" salaries and get more competitive teams as a result (maybe? Hopefully??) --A salary cap is NOT ever going to happen at this point. I would settle for some actual damaging punishments for those teams that do go over the supposed luxury tax threshold. And I'm talking DAMAGING: 1000%+ penalty per dollar (?) over this threshold. Plus automatic loss of draft picks, starting with a first round pick for even $1 over the threshold, a second rounder once you go over $1,000 over the threshold, a third rounder if you go over $10,000, etc. etc. Just make it REALLY painful for a team to be paying so much money to players. --Revenue sharing of TV/radio/Internet money. I would also be fine with MLB taking over all broadcast rights themselves and sharing the money that way. Team-owned broadcast channels would go away. --Have all players worldwide subject to the MLB draft if they want to come to America and play in the MLB. --Get rid of the deferrals. Immediately. No grandfathering in, either. Sorry, Dodgers, you'll need to start paying Shohei and everyone else their actual salary each season. --Perhaps get rid of arbitration and make free-agency start after 5 complete MLB seasons. Again, I am perfectly well aware that probably NONE of these things would be agreed upon. I bemoan the likely fact that MLB could shut down in 2027, just when more of our Brewers prospects should be up and strengthening our team. And if baseball were to disappear for an entire season (or longer?) how many fans will they lose? Would the revenue streams that the owners/players depend on in today's game even exist in 2028 or 2029 if the fans say, "heck with it, I found other things to do with my money instead of giving it to you" ? I, myself, will always love baseball no matter what happens. I might not go to as many games, buy merchandise, etc. but I'd still pay attention and hope that they can get things fixed. My worst fear is that nothing is really accomplished and they sit out for a season or longer only to sign an agreement for 5-6 years that really accomplishes very little or nothing.

Gone are the days of Pete Vuckovich saying, "Give me a cortisone shot and then give me the ball!"* *-not an actual quote

Well, so glad I bothered to turn on pregame on TBS. It’s 90% Cubs talk. Thank god for unplugging my center speaker and putting Brewers radio on a Bluetooth speaker!

Well? Did the thread do the job like in games one and two? Or did the fans do the Scrooge McDuck thing from Cubs fans because they’d rather go to the Badger game? inquiring minds want to know!

I wondered if you were there. Congratulations! A hell of a ballgame!

This game is now in “all-timer” territory. It has certainly earned the moniker. Just a great game and another reason that baseball is the best!

No doubt! Both teams have been nails. i really really hope tomorrow isn’t anywhere close to this stressful. 10-2 Brewers would be just great! Please????

Wow!!

Nope, not me. This is awesome. I wish it was still like this all the time. I know I’m in the minority.

I’m out for the night on the site*. I’m hoping that I can come in here tomorrow and read a really enjoyable game thread! Go Brewers! *-subject to change

Well. . . . I'll go on record that I'm not a fan of Freddy pitching in tonight's game. On the road with the wind blowing "out", I guess I'd rather go bullpen game and hope to outslug/outscore the Cubs and hold Freddy for game one of the NLCS or, at worst, pitching game 5 at home where he has been pretty dominant. That said, I have to have confidence that he'll get the job done. It's just not what I would've done. That's all. Regardless, Go Brewers!!!

Because they want that big Philadelphia market to watch the game in their prime time rather than late at night

Sorry to say, this was inevitable due to all of the “shoulda used Priester in game 2” stuff I read the last couple of days. are those people correct? Maybe. He might’ve been just as bad. for those that were okay with Priester today, playoff nerves and all the hubbaballoo over Priester being a Cubs fan as a kid did not help him out at all. thankfully, it’s just the first inning. But yikes

Well said, and precisely the exact reason I predicted the use of Miz before the game started.

I hope that this is legit, but why do I feel that any Brewers fan that steps inside will be ridiculed, abused, and maybe even tarred-and-feathered? Sad that today’s culture has made me feel that the latter is more likely than the former. I wish we lived in a better world…. If legit, I wish you luck and thank you for your kindness—win or lose—in today’s society. I’ll be drinking in my living room in Arizona but I’ll maybe tip my hat to you into the ethersphere (is that a thing?)