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  1. BruisedCrew
    Ohtani. Maybe.
  2. BruisedCrew
    I hope this deal isn’t a clue that Harrison’s IL stay is going to be longer than the minimum.
  3. BruisedCrew
    I would nominate declaring in mid June that the Brewers are going to win the division because they have a “comfy” 5 game lead and are given an 83% chance to win the division on a projection site.
  4. BruisedCrew
    The site won’t accept my email and password on the multi site thread, so I’ll post this here. Every year the All Star Game brings back memories for me of when the All Star Game was one of the sports highlights of the year. Back in the days when the Braves didn’t televise games and the national Game of the Week was blacked out in all MLB cities the All Star Game and World Series were the only televised games we could see. So it was a thrill to see the stars of the game, including the AL stars who never played in Milwaukee. And stars like Willie Mays and Stan Musial would play the whole game and the starting pitchers would go 3 innings. It was a real baseball game with star players trying win. Over the years the game lost its luster to the point that it’s gotten to today. Top stars opting out or maybe making a token appearance while teams try to squeeze every player on the roster into the game And hitting is very rare with a succession of star pitchers shutting down opposing batters. To top it off, if you root for the Brewers league you almost always come away a loser. I’d have to count it up, but in their 56 years of existence the Brewers league has won something like 12 times. They switched from the AL to the NL just as the balance of power in All Star Games flipped. I’d like to think that’s just bad luck and coincidence. I’ll probably have the game on tonight but won’t be glued to it
  5. BruisedCrew
    There are only “after” results for 3 years unless you have information about how 2026 turns out. Does the trend for the last month before the break give any clues about what came after?
  6. BruisedCrew
    I couldn’t care less about things like run differential and leading the league in ERA and runs allowed. But I care a lot about letting the Cubs claw back from the horrendous stretch they had through parts of May and June. Between the Brewers offense being average for the last month and some real concerns about the pitching staff going forward, that 5 game lead doesn’t look as “comfy” as it did even 36 hours ago. The starting rotation that started this 18 game stretch, is in disarray. Woodruff is presumably done for the season and Harrison will be down for at least a week after the ASB while we hold our breaths for news about whether his sore elbow is a sign of something that will lead to an extended absence. Hopefully Misiorowski will be able pitch next weekend, but his fatigued arm is a reminder that it isn’t realistic to think he’s going to pitch 6-7 innings throwing 100 MPH plus pitches every 5th day. The schedule coming out of the break is 6 games, 1 day off, 6 games, 1 day off, then another run of 17 days with no days off (thankfully no doubleheaders) that includes 2 separate west coast trips concluding with 4 against the Dodgers. That schedule is probably going to require 6 starters and some deadline reinforcements. I think subsequent events have shown that thoughts that the division title was all but certain and that the Brewers should be planning for the playoffs were premature.
  7. BruisedCrew
    I amused myself by looking through some other seasons for All Star break swoons and horrors at PNC Park. 2022-- After getting swept the weekend before the ASG the Brewers built a 4 game lead in the division in late July. After the infamous Hader trade the Brewers went to PNC and got swept by a bad Pirates team. From there they went on a slide that kept them out of the playoffs. 2007- Lost 5 of 6 to the Pirates and Nats before the ASB as a division lead that had been 8 games slipped away and eventually disappeared. 2009-Lost 8 of 10 going into the ASB. That turned a 2 game lead in the division into a 2 game deficit and the team went downhill from there. 2014- Lost 11 of 13 heading into the ASB as a 6.5 game division lead fell to 1 game. Team stayed close until the end of August when they completely collapsed. 2017- Went into break with a 5,5 game division lead. But, a week later they were swept in 4 games at PNC park to see their lead slip to 1 game. They lost the division lead for good shortly after and never recovered. 2019- lost 5 oF 6 at GAB and PNC before the ASB to surrender first place for good. They did rally in September to get the wild card spot. For a span of just 20 years that’s a lot of examples where bad stretches right before the ASB and/or at PNC Park in Midseason. have tarnished good first halfs. Several of them have led to stumbles in the second half. Hopefully this year will be more like the ones where the bad finishes were just a bump in the road
  8. BruisedCrew
    I don’t think I’ll be watching any more of this. It’s bad enough that the Brewers are mailing it in, but I don’t need to listen to one of the Pirates announcers crowing about it I can always come back if I see that the Brewers have made a contest out of it.
  9. BruisedCrew
    Although he hit that ball hard he would have been retired by a competent major league third baseman.
  10. BruisedCrew
    I don’t think it’s an annual thing but they have had some bad ones, and the Pirates have been responsible for a few.
  11. BruisedCrew
    Shewmake butchers his first chance.
  12. BruisedCrew
    Skenes has not been that dominating lately. But against a tired Brewers team just anxious to get to the break it looks like he might pitch a complete game shutout with maybe a hit or two.
  13. BruisedCrew
    Whether he does or not, it sounds like a DFA candidate when Hamilton returns. I suspect that the main reason for picking him up was to have someone who might be a little better defensively and little more versatile than Jones in addition to being left-handed
  14. BruisedCrew
    Maybe he had the phone number for his orthopedic surgeon written on his hand.
  15. BruisedCrew
    Before this 18 game stretch I said that I would be satisfied if the Brewers didn’t lose any of their division lead.. It’s possible that they could still do that with a win tomorrow, but when you throw in losing 3 SP to injury it’s hard to say that this stretch hasn’t been something of a disaster even with 10 or 11 wins. We’ve also seen terrible slumps from Chourio and Contreras.If that’s related to the situation in Venezuela (which would be understandable) it could be a big problem for some time. With the pitching situation the offense is going to need more from those guys than they have been providing.
  16. BruisedCrew
    He’ll have to overcome both Skenes and the return of the PNC Park hex I don’t think the Brewers have ever gone into the final game of a series in that park needing a win to avoid a sweep and actually won it. Fortunately this is just a 3 game series instead of some of the 4 and 5 game series of the past.
  17. BruisedCrew
    Followed by a bad miss by Contreras letting the game ending strike, go right down the middle.
  18. BruisedCrew
    They’re getting beat by one guy
  19. BruisedCrew
    Brewers hitters are looking mentally and/or physically tired in this game.
  20. BruisedCrew
    Ugh. Another golden opportunity wasted.
  21. BruisedCrew
    A potentially productive inning wasted there. Yelich passes up a walk by swinging at a pitch several inches inside, and Turang fouls off ball 4 before being called out on check swing for Ball 5. So the first four hitters could have/should have gotten on base and they have nothing to show for it. After that first game this is starting to have one of those classic PNC Park nightmare series.
  22. BruisedCrew
    I wonder if this game will actually be starting at 3:05. They are calling it a split doubleheader and the Pirates said that tickets for the Friday game would be honored at the 1105 game. It seems ambitious to clear out the stadium and admit a new crowd in not much more than an hour.
  23. BruisedCrew
    The long road trip might finally be taking its toll. That game was horrible on several levels, but especially the pitching.
  24. BruisedCrew
    Can we please retire the “Vulture” love. He has been pretty bad lately
  25. BruisedCrew
    I can’t believe that he doesn’t have some physical problem, with a bad back being the most likely. His numbers are bad, but he looks worse than his numbers. I wish he would go on the IL just to rest and rehab if nothing else without having to deal with the games and swinging over breaking balls at his feet. Maybe after a month or so he can come back refreshed. He is one of my favorite Brewers ever and it hurts ME to watch him like this. This must be what it was like for Yankee fans in 1939 watching Lou Gehrig before anybody knew what was wrong with him.
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