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  1. Cool Hand Lucroy
    The DBacks are getting a TON of BABIP luck, but they're also just putting in good PAs. No panic. That ball Pham hit could not have been place in a better spot.
  2. Cool Hand Lucroy
    Can we have any worse BABIP luck?
  3. Cool Hand Lucroy
    Big question starting to become how long you stick with Freddy. Not much margin for error, but I can sure make an argument he's your best option for the next 4-6 outs.
  4. Cool Hand Lucroy
    Well, there's a nice pace to this game anyway. Sure be nice if our offense could put up a 30-minute half-inning.
  5. Cool Hand Lucroy
    Does that mean you caught it? That would be pretty awesome.
  6. Cool Hand Lucroy
    Hey, always knew 2 wasn't going to be enough. Shake it off, Freddy, and let's get hitting.
  7. Cool Hand Lucroy
    I mean, I think the problem is those teams had like zero good contact hitters. This team doesn't have very many pure power threats. It's a balance thing. I'd lean toward weighting contact and good ABs more, but you've got to have at least one 30+ HR bat.
  8. Cool Hand Lucroy
    Double plays just kill this team. Man.
  9. Cool Hand Lucroy
    Moreno can't stay in the game after a 6-minute delay, head into the clubhouse, then come out of the game. That's very poorly handled by the DBacks and their training staff. Clearly a situation where competitive concerns outweighed health ones.
  10. Cool Hand Lucroy
    They might have to do something about re-entering the game in situations like this, where you probably need to administer one of those concussion tests. Maybe allow for a half-inning, temporary catcher or something.
  11. Cool Hand Lucroy
    Something just seemed off about that whole interaction with Moreno. I really hope he's alright. The guys on the DBacks know better, obviously, but that sure looked to me like a guy who was shook up. Really hope he's actually healthy and can stay in the game because it would be real bad if he had to exit in a couple of innings.
  12. Cool Hand Lucroy
    That didn't LOOK that bad relative to some other backswing-hitting-the-catcher moments I've seen, but Moreno sure doesn't seem right.
  13. Cool Hand Lucroy
    If Turang's going to make an out, an 9-pitch one is the best kind.
  14. Cool Hand Lucroy
    Let's go. Keep making Gallen work. Santana, Canha, Frelick all putting together good ABs, and then Willy gets aggressive first pitch. Loved that sequence.
  15. Cool Hand Lucroy
    About as good an inning as you can have without a 3-run bomb. Keep at it, offense.
  16. Cool Hand Lucroy
    Long-term optimism: The Brewers are indisputably the best-run team in the Central right now, and the farm system is stocked with talent. That, and the potential return on a Burnes deal, has me feeling quite good about where this team will be through the next several seasons. Short-term optimism: Today's the day Freddy Peralta goes from young, fun, energy guy to Milwaukee legend.
  17. Cool Hand Lucroy
    I've been thinking a lot about the next 2-3 years of Brewers baseball. I'll save most of those thoughts until after the season officially ends, but the upshot is twofold: 1) I'm optimistic and 2) Freddy is going to be the anchor of this staff through his age 30 season in 2026. We all remember Mother's Day. Today would be a good time for a postseason version of that (maybe with only 9 or 10 Ks and 3-5 extra outs). One of these days, someone's going to lose Game 1 and go on to win the WC series. Why not us?
  18. Cool Hand Lucroy
    I mean...no team ever has WS-winning odds much higher than like 12 percent, so, by definition, it is kind of unreasonable to "expect" to win a World Series. I'm not saying you shouldn't. I just think that expectation means you're going to be pretty miserable watching a lot of October baseball (which is the best baseball). My college basketball analogy is: The Brewers winning the division is not all that different than an A10 school making the Sweet 16. It's something worth celebrating regardless of what happens next.
  19. Cool Hand Lucroy
    I get the frustration. Of course I feel it too. But the season didn't end tonight. I'm going to enjoy the heck out of one more baseball game, win or lose, and feel good about a season where we won the damn division. Everyone can engage with baseball how they want. But the nature of the sport and the nature of being a small-market fan make basing a season's worth of results on a three-game series a losing proposition for me. I guess, at the end of the day, I just watch baseball for more than just the possibility of a World Series. That's there, sure. It hurts when it's no longer possible in a given year. But it always feels like a bonus more than anything. Again, maybe that makes me weird. I accept. I just have more fun being weird, personally speaking, than I have being anything else. Nyjer Morgan's throwing out the first pitch tomorrow. I'll be wearing my Gomez shirsey and trying to manifest at least one more homefield elimination game.
  20. Cool Hand Lucroy
    True. But a statistical reality requires a large sample. It's not great at predicting the outcome in a single event. The Brewers will be, probably, something like 60-40 underdogs tomorrow. In a one-game sample, no result is all that much more or less likely.
  21. Cool Hand Lucroy
    Fans should think that, sure. But if the players are going in afraid of facing good pitchers, this series is over before it starts anyway.
  22. Cool Hand Lucroy
    Yeah. Things change so, so fast in October. Win one game. That's it. You win tomorrow, and you know everyone who roots for the DBacks is thinking how they're in deep trouble and should've finished them off and c. And even if we somehow miraculously win this game, tomorrow is as important. I know everyone says Game 1 is the most important, but, you know what? I think Games 1 and 2 are the same important. And if there's a Game 3, that's the most important ;)
  23. Cool Hand Lucroy
    I'm disappointed in Burnes, but credit to the DBacks too. The bigger thing for me is just how much you need to take advantage of every opportunity to score in the playoff, especially early. We had the starter out after less than 3 innings. We had 3 runs. We had every chance to add on and just couldn't do it. Donaldson had a productive night, but he was a WPA albatross. Our run expectancy must have been like 7 or 8 tonight.
  24. Cool Hand Lucroy
    I don't if I even want to think about it, but the DBacks have blown some massive scoring chances tonight too. I really, really thought it was going to take more than 4 runs to win this game. Neither team has really been great at capitalizing, and both have run into multiple outs.
  25. Cool Hand Lucroy
    He....did?
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