I’m not going to hope the Brewers miss the playoffs, but I will have to say this game doesn’t upset me like they sometimes do,
I really think that the deadline moves made me feel like Stearns doesn’t think the team is a serious contender to go far either, so he’s looking more to the future and being satisfied that the team figures to be in the playoff hunt until late in the season. If they can squeak into the expanded playoffs that’s a bonus, and anything after that is gravy. I think he realizes that, no matter what he can do within reason, the Brewers would be big underdogs against teams like the Dodgers, Braves, Mets, and Padres. So there’s no reason to sacrifice being competitive in the future to chase a long shot at advancing as far as the World Series.