I keep seeing this suggestion pop up, and I just think, at some point, where is the line going to be drawn on the absolute shameless and incandescently transparent manipulation of injury lists in Major League Baseball? The Brewers are a team that will scrap and claw for every single advantage they possibly can in an environment designed to disadvantage small markets at every turn, but I have to think even our brass would balk at this. But who knows.
In the end, it feels like rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic. Now, I know that I shouldn’t feel this way, and I’ve rehearsed all the rational reasons why. Past performance is not indicative of future results, players don’t react the way fans do, etc. But I can’t bring myself to believe any of it. When I think of AmFam/Miller in October, it’s just a sadness factory. It’s why I’ve been off the boards most of the series—I don’t think this place needs more and more of what my head says is a polluted mindset, but my eyes and heart tell me are just the facts of life.
Three chances to win just one game. I’ve given up on a World Series, it’s a fools hope and always will be. But for years of pain, it isn’t too much to ask they don’t do this, at home, to Counsell’s Cubs of all teams. They owe us that. I wish I believed they would deliver.