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Cool Hand Lucroy
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That was fun. Really fun. I loved those first few innings for many reasons, not least of which was the Brewers very Brewers second inning. It's interesting how much this matchup says about modern baseball. Huge hype. Two starting pitchers throwing unreal stuff. Tons of legit excitement, a JUNE AFTERNOON SELL-OUT. And then the main reasons for all the attention are both done halfway through the game. Not saying it's a bad thing at all. You can like it, hate it, appreciate it, whatever. I just think it's an interesting barometer for the modern game. -
Well, Chuorio is awesome. But that was not a well-played fly ball in the first. I thought, "wouldn't it be so baseball if we lose 1-0 after the last four days?" Obviously that has no bearing on how these next 7 innings go. I hate MLB's system as much as the next guy (no salary cap has always been a competitive fairness issue and gets more so all the time in an era of increasing inequality and massive TV deals). But, take it from a Winnipeg Jets fan, caps don't solve everything. Ultimately, free agents want to play in big markets. That's hard to fix. Baseball can do better, but I'm also the world's biggest fan of appreciating how the Crew has been the best-run team in baseball the last near-decade.
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I kind of feel like the Contreras clan are...old school eating baseball types. Not sure either of those dudes knows how not to play (I don't necessarily mean this as a compliment, or an insult, just a loaded observation).
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Yeah, I find AmFam/Miller to be much more accessible than Target Field, just because the bar shuttles are so good, and it's so easy to find parking in those nearby neighborhoods. Also, much easier entrance/exit in my experience. Still, I think TF is a better place to watch a baseball game. As others have said, it's not unique in terms of its aesthetic. Just a nice urban ballpark, but there's a reason they built like 10 of them that way. Anyway, I haven't much enjoyed the stadium experience in the last 5 years or so. Much prefer attending the local high-A games just due to it being more reasonable and less crowded (older I get the more I hate being cramped, and I tend to be a peripatetic baseball watcher too, preferring to wander the stadium rather than stay in one spot), so my opinion ain't worth much. Go Crew!
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Good AB from Yelich. Wild Bill probably should've hacked 0-0.
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Briefly wanted to walk Arraez to get to Machado lol. Wrong about Anderson, wrong about that.
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Not sure I like Anderson in this spot, hope I'm wrong.
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Brewers can't deliver the soft single the Padres got. Runs please, guys. Runs.
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I think sports are always and inherently political. I mean, anytime we talk about salary caps and small market vs. large market, we're talking about ideology and economic theory. I suppose you could argue people are fed up with ESPN being "partisan," but it seems to me that, with a few exceptions, most of their partisanship is pretty shallow anyway, and they did just cancel Around the Horn, which, despite its absurd format, was the closest thing they had to The Sports Reporters. I love E:60 and would watch 30 for 30 and a new-style sports reporters all day, so, IMO, the trouble with the channel is mostly that the analysis is way too heavy on Crossfire, Stephen A. Silliness, and too light on actual sport and society thoughtfulness. As for baseball in particular, I think the rule changes have helped. I also think this stuff goes in cycles, and when you've got really good teams in LA, NY (x2), Chicago, and Philly, that's just really going to jam your numbers, especially when most of those teams also have national appeal. You could call that superteams. I am glad for the sports increased popularity. I also have some concerns about what kind of behavior might be incentivized if that is indeed a big part of the driving force.
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Had to end sometime. Get another one started tomorrow.
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I think keeping Freddy in was marginally the wrong call, but if you score 5 runs in two games at that ballpark, you're lucky to win one.
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Today is as optimistic as I have felt about this team this year. They have overcome a lot (plenty of it self-inflicted) to get to 29-28. The fight is impressive. No idea how good I think they can be. Is this a playoff team? I still think probably not, even with a lot of returning pitching. A lot of it comes down to: can we defend at an elite level? And, are these hitters due for some positive regression, or is this kind of who they are at this point in their careers? I know this: we are going to have to get longer starting pitching and more slugging to contend. But that seems likelier to happen than this time last week. Need a good road trip.
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I get that Freddy is struggling to command, so you don't want to load the bases, I guess. But walking Devers seemed very obvious there. Certainly, you don't throw him strikes. Absolutely certainly you don't try to beat him with a down-the-middle 3-2 fastball.
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Life is tough without a lockdown bullpen. I gotta give this team credit. They do battle. After the way we lost those two in Pittsburgh, getting this one (and yesterday) shows something. I keep waiting to hit .500, but that is obviously arbitrary. What I'm really waiting for is a 6-game winning streak. This team has to get real hot to make me a believer. But, hey, they could! We have played a pretty bad 55 games, but there's 2/3 of the season to go.
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Bauers swinging through two good pitches to hit there.
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I do think getting to .500 is a psychologically important thing. Schedule gets tougher after these games, so going 5-2 at least against the O's and Pirates feels necessary. Somehow, these guys are in it. I think the Cards and Reds will fade, as will some of the West teams, so the WC is a realistic option if we can somehow start putting together winning streaks. I still feel like this team is mediocre, but maybe they can steal 85 wins and sneak into the playoffs.
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Let's get these guys back to .500 and give them some belief.
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Yeah, this is just a weird, weird, transitional year. Last year, I really felt like we were going to be way better than people thought. This year, I knew we had a lot of guys back, but it just seemed different somehow. Maybe it was just losing Willy. I don't know. Vibes just off. A lot of it, for me, is that all of our guys feel the same. Like, we have a team largely full of decent players with a couple of trouble spots. If Yelich and Contreras and Chourio aren't absolutely blasting, we're not going to score runs. On the pitching side, we need to beat our FIP numbers. We've got a rotation full of #3-4 starters (you could argue Freddy is a little better than that), so the bullpen has to be great, and we have to steal outs defensively. None of that is happening right now, so what you get is a team that really struggles to rip off winning streaks. Maybe the offense will heat up, and something will click defensively and on the bases. It's a massively long season. One big win streak changes everything. But, right now, this is just a really average baseball team. And they are average. Average just feels bad because of how good we've been most of this decade.
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I am waiting until 60 games before feeling confident in this assessment, but this team seems pretty mediocre. Doesn't mean we won't get hot, but there really isn't a lot to be excited about so far. No slug. Depleted rotation. Struggling bullpen. Regression on defense. It's tough out here.
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Nice when the robots agree with my eyes. That looked brutal brutal brutal.
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I just want to sing about how much I believe in Stephen Vogt while watching this game.
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Not sure if anyone saw Game 7 of the Jets-Blues series, but wow. One of the most intense sporting events I have ever witnessed. Jets give up two early goals. They get one back in the second, but then give up a third on a bad giveaway with 30 seconds left in the period. Down 3-1 all through the third, but they score twice in the last two minutes, once with 2 seconds left on an incredible tip-in. Then a scoreless OT. Chances from both teams. In the second OT, the Jets get a double-deflected goal at 16:03 to win it. The place goes insane. Probably the second biggest win in franchise history (they won a Game 7 in Nashville handily in 2018, to book a sport in the WC Finals), but easily the most tense. Two great Game 7s over the weekend, and some great series on tap in the next round.
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Playing the White Sox sucks because you feel like a failure if you don't sweep. This trip exemplifies the season quite well. Played pretty subpar (mostly because of sloppiness and missed opportunities), but posted decent enough results. 32 games is about halfway to a reasonably meaningful sample. Schedule in May is not easy, but it's not that tough either. Cubs and a bunch of AL teams about where we are or slightly worse. 18 games where I'd really like to go at least 11-7. My big worry remains bullpen. If we can't lock down the 8th and 9th, we are going to have a very hard time doing enough.
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As a VERY casual Bucks observer, I feel like losing Jrue for Dame was just a really underrated mistake of that trade. An understandable mistake, but Jrue's defense is just so, so valuable, and Dame is so utterly limited on that side of the floor. I don't know what I'd do if I'm the Bucks. Honestly, the 2021 title feels like they get a free pass for at least a decade, even with a superstar like Giannis locked in. So, I'd probably just run it back and try to surround Dame and Giannis with grinder bigs and 3-and-D guards and see what happens.
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Well, chance to get to a .500 roadie with a win tomorrow. Be nice to get the first sweep of the year too. I feel real bad for Collins. Such a flukey injury, and he's been playing well and now has to be like "wait, I did all this, and now my MLB career might hit another hurdle because I reflexed out of a head-high fastball, took one to the elbow, and then fell weird on my other arm." Baseball is an ass, indeed.
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