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Can confirm that the shuttle experience was a bit disappointing. Had to drive three hours to the city, so got tickets for the 10:30-11am window. It was immediately obvious that there were a bunch of free-riders, judging by the overwhelming crowd of people trying to get on. Amazingly, we still made our window (not that it mattered since no one ever asked to scan our tickets—though I’m happy to plop down twenty-five bucks for the community). Several individuals on our shuttle looked and smelled like they hadn’t stopped partying since Wednesday, at least, lol. Got to see the team buses as we approached Summerfest, and we arrived in time to partake in the “MVP” chants for Contreras as his bus made its slow approach. On the grounds, it became quickly apparent that the experience was going to be a tough sell to my boys (11 and 8). I was loving the atmosphere and the coverage on screen, but they were bored. IMG_2777.mov My wife was with us (a Cards fan but one who enjoyed this Brewers season thoroughly—who wouldn’t at least be entertained by this team?) and she heroically braved the food lines with our oldest and was thoroughly annoyed. There were line jumpers aplenty, and getting four slices of pizza took nearly an hour. We ate during the start of Charlie Berens’ intro, but the boys were done. When they saw the line for merch was into next week they threw in the towel, despite my encouragements, so we missed the player interviews at the rally. All in all, the experience was a good one for die hards and people with drinking age friends (and I think my wife and I would have had fun if it were just the two of us), but it was a bit rough with kids. When we got back to AmFam we walked around getting pics of the postseason banners and Ueck’s statue. When we saw the team store was closed, we hit Rally House in Greenfield for some merch, and topped it off with Kopp’s on the way out of town (flavor of the Day was “Roll out the Barrel” and featured vanilla, caramel, pretzel, and a healthy “splash” of Miller Lite. It was solid, though the boys had just plain vanilla, ha). An enjoyable day for me, despite the annoyances, and was a great payoff to the citizens who had waited a really long time for it.

😁😂🥲 No words tonight, just joy. So happy for the org, the city, and the community everywhere, especially here.

Huge, if true

Heck, if the Rays are having multiple apparent pitchcom issues per game, I’d be telling Miz (quietly) that he should use one or two grounds keeping requests tonight, and if they just so happen to take place amidst a tough AB or after getting down in a count during a critical moment? Well, I guess that’s baseball…

Everyone here is a fan of at least one (and probably more) Wisconsin sports teams, so I get that there’s going to be some facing down the demons this morning. There’s a lot of recent postseason history there, and most of it is bad. But today is a new day, and from where I’m sitting, it looks pretty bright outside. Three shots to achieve the dream is a deal I’ll take every single year. Not convinced? How does two more appearances by not just your Cy Young winner but a guy who can do things with the baseball that literally no one else in the history of the sport can do strike you? How does having Babe Ruth in the lineup move you? Because that’s what Chourio is doing. Only the Babe has also had multi-hit games in his first four World Series appearances. And Chourio is even better because he’s faster than Ruth ever was and can hit pitching the likes of which Ruth never faced. So for the next three games, the Brewers have Babe Ruth+ leading off. Oh, and they also have the guy who is better than peak Andrew Miller in the bullpen as well as a minty fresh closer. And another off day tomorrow if necessary. And then two home games after that if it comes to it. I’m still feeling pretty good.

And my final observation before I try and flush this one and find some sleep is this: I’ve never been more thankful that CC doesn’t manage this team anymore than I am right now. I’ve got way more confidence in Murph getting these guys into the proper headspace.

On a totally unrelated note, I didn’t care for the Sydney Sweeney gambling ad coming on again. I know it’s after 10pm, but I’ve got my two boys (11 and 8) enjoying a special stay up late situation with a possible WS clincher, and I already have a lot on my plate trying to have the “sports and life don’t always go the way you really desperately hope” talk. I really don’t need to have to have the other talk with them on top of this, too. C’mon, FOX, do better.

No two ways about it, it’s the absolute worst possible Brewer outcome that didn’t involve an injury. I still don’t think tomorrow is terribly stressful, but the Rays have life.

The crummy thing, obviously, is that if there was a path back for the Rays, it wasn’t just to win, but to win a game 4 exactly like this one. Anything that jeopardizes our greatest advantage, which is our pitching depth, serves to even the scales. I’m not saying a Rays win makes it anything like a likely series loss, only that it is the first key domino in the disaster scenario.

I think that was a call based on how it would look if most the 50/50s went for Milwaukee, not a call based on the merits.

Yeah, true, but the guy is just so intense, I wonder if that’s the opposite of helpful. He needs some Bobby Diesel vibes.

And I believe a nine-game winning streak would be the record for most consecutive wins in a single post-season. They’re already tied for the lead with eight. (Apologies if this was discussed earlier. I’ve found it hard to sleep for the last week—for some reason!—and I’m admittedly a little hazy on the memory).

His price is coming down. Time to pounce on that!

Gatorade is cool and all, but I think a few Stags would be cooler up there.

Gary’s PH walk in the Padre series. Yeli’s hustle. Those are such huge circle-them-in-the-score-book moments of this postseason. I hope they get remembered forever.

I didn’t know how to process that 5th inning. It was so far removed from my expectations for this game. A relaxed World Series win was not on my bingo card. Glad my boys got to watch with me—they were really fired up.

The whole team needs to print this out, stick it to their bathroom mirror tonight. Make it the wallpaper on their phone. Finish the job.

As the kids say, the vibes are immaculate. I don’t think Tampa is going to be able to overcome that.

I’m also not sure there’s a good way to decide the Joey/Coop debate here. I wonder if it just boils down to, as a fan, I would prefer a different kind of stress just for variety’s sake. I hold my breath every time a grounder heads to short when Pratt is in the game. If Joey is going to start tonight, though, I know I would dread his appearance in the order and constantly be doing the math about when he’d be coming up and potentially killing a rally with three straight swings and misses on high cheese. This is just playoff life. There are no answers for me, there’s only the ride.

Go Brewers

We don’t have a kicker

Dan Campbell is such a meathead. Wow

I’m not sure if NFL referees are capable of being embarrassed by their performance, but they ought to be.

I’m expecting this to be rough. But I can’t even begin to tell you how little stress I feel about this. Compared to the intensity of the last two nights of baseball, this Packers game feels like it’s barely more than preseason. I have very little emotional capital to spend on this one, and it is liberating.

In all of World Series history, there have apparently only been three lefties to hit a game-tying homer off a lefty pitcher in the 6th or later. Ruth did it in ‘28. Joe Morgan did it in ‘83. And now Sal. Unreal stuff. It’s a different person getting it done every night, it seems. I thought it was going to have to be Chourio basically getting white-hot and annihilating everyone in front of him, but it’s been Contreras and then a different sidekick in every game. What an absolute joy.