Underachiever

Tough schedule, yes. But come on, your statement about beating two ranked teams is the most technically true and least relevant statement you could have made. The 2010 team beat #1 OSU and went to Kinnick and beat #15 Iowa. That team would have probably beaten more ranked teams had the situation presented itself. I'm guessing they could have handled the two ranked teams the Badgers defeated as well. I don't consider beating now unranked Illinois and Washington to be the same thing. Balance that against being the only B10 team to lose to Maryland this year. And I hear Maryland lost their starting quarterback from last year to the portal!

Man, I don't even drink, and I recoiled when I saw you mentioning a St. Louis beer.

I’m a season ticket holder that won’t be renewing. To add to the “4th QB” talk, it wasn’t like any of the first three did any better. Going back to the first year, I don’t think any of the qbs were good. Mordecai, maybe, but there wasn’t any indication that they had a guy who was a difference maker. Just an awful chapter in Wisconsin football. It’s real easy to walk away. The tickets I’m giving up have been in the family since 1971. No one in the family wants them. and it’s $3k I don’t need to spend.

Guarantee me that some of the 125 games that Buxton plays in occur in September or the playoffs. If he’s just the annual late-season gut-punch Brewer injury, I don’t need him

Oh man, I was at that freezing cold game as well. Drove all the way to Pittsburgh to see them lose on the last play of the game after a 12-play, 86-yard drive in 2 minutes. Good thing I am over it.

I think 2025 taught me that five starters isn't nearly enough if you want them to have something left in October.

136, but who’s counting? Not the author of this article, apparently. Gonna guess AI contributed heavily to this.

My ticket refund hit my AMEX account today.

I still have money coming back.

If you are saying that it was 17 mil for two years, I don't think that is correct. I think it was 2/$34, with buyouts and other language. Hoskins didn't work out well. The only alternatives are for Arnold to be perfect or not try. A bad signing like this tends to hamstring the Brewers worse than most organizations, but this group was pretty excited when Rhys signed. Especially the guy whose quote appears in my signature. https://brewerfanatic.com/forums/topic/41892-brewers-sign-rhys-hoskins/

How does Roberts still pitch Treinen?

I went to bed after the Jays batted in the top of the ninth. I didn't need to see the inevitable Dodger walkoff. I wasn't wrong, technically...

Fine, but that post was made just before PGH scored to make it 35-25, and there was still time left. So, too soon.

Too soon

In the pocket, in the grasp, behind the line, drop the ball.

Check the bingo card. Penalty, muff, 15-yd return, kickoff brought to 35, missed field goal. So far

How? How can special teams keep messing up in different ways? Do they have a bingo card to fill out?

Sorry! It's not at all! I completely disregarded the Cubs series! My bad. I will amend my original post. See, I am bummed out.

I chuckled that your nightmare scenario imagines the Dodgers giving up TWO runs in a game. Is that a reaction to the Dodgers' pitching or the Brewers' offense?

I don't like to start threads, but I want to get some things off my chest and a thread with this title seems like a good place to rant. I am an optimistic fan. I have predicted 90+ wins the last few seasons. I go to a good number of games, attend spring training, and am old enough to have been a Brewer fan since 1970. I dumped $3942 into NLDS and NLCS playoff tickets (Games 6 and 7 will be refunded, of course) because if there was going to be a World Series in Milwaukee, I was going to be there. These playoffs broke me. Same old, same old. I was at both Arizona games in 2023, all three Mets games last year, and both home Dodger games this year. I cannot imagine enjoying next season as much because I will feel as if the lack of slugging in the playoffs will doom the Brewers once again. I was in a meeting in Chicago on the day of NLCS Game 4. When the meeting ended, it was 3-0 in the first. I abandoned my plan of driving to a bar to watch. I just drove home to Madison. Bites of the apple, run-prevention, and the AAA bullpen shuttle that I have come to respect and enjoy won't matter if the Brewers cannot score in the post-season. This model works in the regular season, but fails in October. If they run this back without significant offensive help, I will watch with detachment next year. No more woodpeckers, get me a raptor (not Brent Suter). I can't even get as worked up about the Brewers' Annual Devastating Injury on the Eve of the Playoffs, 2025 edition. Losing Brandon Woodruff was not the reason the Brewers couldn't get past the Dodgers. Having LA score 2, 3, 5 and 5 runs should not be insurmountable, but it was this year. Milwaukee has scored 32 runs in their last 16 playoff games, dating back to 2019. They went to game 7 of the LCS in 2018 with Ryan Braun, Mike Moustakas, and Travis Shaw playing significant innings despite defense that was less than stellar. But they scored 38 runs in 10 playoff games that year. I'd be willing to take that tradeoff. Maybe none of this matters. There is no single bat that can bridge the gap between LA and MKE. There probably aren't even two bats. But, damnit, I'll take a puncher's chance at this point. EDIT: I messed up, as was pointed out in a later post. The 32 runs in 16 games disregards the Cubs series. I just forgot, and was thinking only of series where they lost. The Brewers scored 22 runs in those five games alone. So, it's 54 runs in 21 games. Better, but still around 2.6 per game. I still believe that the Brewers don't slug enough to win playoff series.

Fickell called me last Saturday morning and told me to put everything on Ohio State to cover. I said, "Luke, I'm way ahead of you, brother." Some things don't need to be said.

I believe that with the smallest metro market, a AAA team in Madison is too close. Brewers need to be a statewide team. I'm not sure how much of their business comes from Madison and SW Wisconsin, but it can't be insignificant. Some people would probably skip the drive to MKE if there was a AAA team here. I don't include myself in that group. I live in Madison, and I don't think I would attend a Madison Brewers game instead of driving to Milwaukee. I haven't been to a Mallards game in over 10 years, because the novelty wore off. I like that I can see baseball at the highest level in a relatively easy fashion. I would be curious to see how the markets with a AAA team close to the big-league club have their attendance affected. St. Paul/Minneapolis, Seattle/Tacoma, Detroit/Toledo, for example.

I said Friday.

The Brewers have three winning streaks of at least 8 games. Next 8 game streak starts Friday.

I love being lectured from a guy’s couch. Meanwhile I’ve gotten light-headed from screaming the past two nights. Hardly sat last night.