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Eat it, Machado

Woof, blue

Congrats, Freddy!

So help me, Murph, if Contreras gets a season-ender and we end up plugging another black hole into this lineup on top of inferior handling of the pitchers during the playoffs, I might demand your job.

Since we’re offering our slightly less hot post-mortems, I will say this: I think I’m still coming out ahead as a football fan this week, and let me explain why. We usually look like death warmed over in our first week or two. This year we didn’t do that, and it netted us two key NFC wins, one against what is likely our main competition for the division. This week likely represents something of a low point on our year (hopefully excepting any injury devastation) and the fact it was a road loss to an AFC opponent that we will not be seeing in any possible Super Bowl matchups this season is about as good an outcome as you can hope for when it comes to clunkers. It is still early, we’ve got a (hopefully) better matchup next week with Dallas, and a bye coming up to help deal with some mildly alarming injury problems, and that all should help set things right. So I’m not a complete doomer about this. But I am something of a pessimist, so my order of concerns from highest to lowest are: 1) This offensive line will actually be worse than last year, despite the revamp 2) LaFleur is really just an overachieving mid-tier coach 3) Love is sort of fraudulent—despite the high level efficiency numbers and comparable counting stats to Rodgers and all that—because he may just be someone who shrinks in big moments I am still holding out the possibility of being convinced by the quality of this offense, but for me, the three trend lines above are the most concerning. I have very little criteria with which to evaluate a coach, since so much of the job is non-visible to fans, but I expect issues 1 and 3 above will be definitively answered one way or another this year. My overall confidence level is currently at a B-, but trending down.

You put lime in Blue Moon? I mean, I’m sure it’s good, but I’ve never considered that before.

And the PCA K will do it. Your Milwaukee Brewers are division champs again!

Wow that is some garbage

That’s it, I don’t think I will watch this one, thanks.

I knew I wasn’t going to be able to watch the game live today because of little league games all afternoon. So I get a whole antenna array set up to get the game recorded on my in-house media server, including spending all afternoon yesterday running coax cable through my walls from the attic to the basement. And now, the way you all are describing this game, I’m fully anticipating the footage being so ugly that it will melt my hard drives like a Nazi trying to look inside the Ark of the Covenant. Kinda not looking forward to this watch.

I think a comprehensive approach to halftime adjustments is warranted: scheme up some quick hitters, maybe try a different configuration on o-line, and some good old-fashioned butt chewing.

I mean, I don’t claim to know much about ball, but Belichick said at the time we drafted him that he liked Morgan a lot. And now Belichick is out of the league, so…

Yeah, this is not what you need to see after the Achilles heel last year against Philly being losing trenches on offense by a lot. At this point, you have to hope it’s injuries and the o-line will improve dramatically with health. Can’t waste the potential of a year like this with an offensive line that can’t do the job. Green Bay football is competent line play, period. This doesn’t work without it.

Yeah, just because it’s Cleveland doesn’t mean they can’t do anything right. They’ve been very good on defense for a while.

Just flipped over from the Crew and, my goodness. Getting boat raced doesn’t even begin to describe this game.

Time to milk the cow, ‘cause we’re in the barn.

Heck yeah!

Games are just better when the other team makes the errors. Gotta love it.

Atta boy, Brice!

Twenty hits and a metric butt ton of line drive outs in the last seventeen innings, for three total runs. That is vexing.

Contreras is one tough hombre.

Heck of a K to end it

And so somehow we finish the game with twelve hits and only one run. The good news is that such an outcome is really, really unlikely to be repeated. So we got that going for us...

I think the biggest bummer to me about this game is that a -6 run differential really makes a dent in our chances to finish the year over a cool +200 in that category. It doesn't make any difference to getting to the promised land, of course, but I would have liked to have been able to say they were the only team in baseball this year that was over that threshold. It would have been cool.

m2-res_480p.mp4 Kind of a bummer game so far for the Crew today, so I'm keeping the vibes going by replaying this a bunch of times. This is my leader in the clubhouse for coolest defensive play of the year. Maybe not the most thrilling, maybe not the most impactful, but coolest. The ability to go from zero to max sprint exactly where he needs to be then seamlessly into a pop-up slide right against the wall to casually end the inning against Taylor of all people (may his name live in Milwaukee infamy forever) is just insanely cool to me. Go Crew.