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  1. Just because I was curious... 1969 Astros were 81-81 overall, missed the postseason 1969 Mets won 100 games and the World Series (the first expansion team to ever win a title) 1977 Royals won 102 games, lost the ALCS to the eventual champ Yankees 1978 Pirates went only 88-73 in what was a down year for them that decade (they would go on to win the WS the next season) 2001 Cardinals won 93 games and were bounced by the eventual champ Diamondbacks in the NLDS (no tears were shed by me) 2015 Blue Jays won 93 games and lost in the ALCS to eventual champ Kansas City (who were managed by some guy named Red Toast or something, doesn't ring a bell) 2017 Dodgers won 104 games and lost the World Series in seven to the Houston Trash Can Bangers 2019 Astros won 107 games (despite no longer having the use of trash can percussion instruments) and lost the World Series in seven to the Washington Nationals So to recap, 6 out of those 8 teams went to the postseason (I feel pretty good about the 2025 Brewers sharing this accomplishment), 5 out of the 8 were eliminated in the postseason by the eventual champion, 3 of the 8 made the World Series, and only one of those teams won it, because if being a Brewers fan (and fan of Wisconsin sports in general) has taught me anything, it is this: The postseason sucks. Sign me up, anyway, let's do it again.
  2. Well, if it is to be burgers, these Brewers are going to earn it these next two. But who can doubt it is possible? What can't they do?
  3. Everything coming up Arnold right now. Hang on to Joey O at the deadline while everyone (including yours truly) thought we needed to swap him with someone—anyone? Joey is the clutchest guy on the team. All the NL contenders do more than we did at the deadline? That’s fine, we’ll beat your newly revamped bullpens. Unbelievable!
  4. It’s getting to be where you can’t really call this a “run” anymore. At some point, you just have to accept this is a great team. I for one have been resisting that conclusion, but even my cynical side is getting worn down. Being a great team doesn’t get you an automatic pennant anymore, but it should hopefully get us a ticket to the divisional round, which is still something.
  5. Doubs’ hands and the midlevel defense not ready for the regular season yet.
  6. Cardinals are pouring it on against the Cubs bullpen, it’s now 5-0 in the bottom of the sixth.
  7. It’s already to the point where I’m surprised when Vaughn doesn’t get a late rbi.
  8. I for one would be in favor of the Cubs finding themselves in the Wild Card round and getting their hearts ripped out there. That sounds like a nice script change for once.
  9. He’s a brutal watch for being such a talented pitcher. Kind of always has been. I rarely get the urge to buy tickets when he’s the probable starter. Sheets? Yo? Burnes? Woody? Full send. Peralta just isn’t the same.
  10. Cubs deadline acquisition Michael Soroka could only complete two innings tonight in his Cubs debut after complaining of shoulder soreness. It should be noted that Soroka is experiencing a dip in velocity going on a month now.
  11. Maybe the Brewers should try to keep winning by so much that they only have to use Megill once a week. Seems to work out pretty well for all involved.
  12. If the Brewers start hitting home runs, does that make them a…complete baseball team?
  13. Dealing with Milwaukee is going to become a fascinating game of cat and mouse. The proper response by another team will be that if we ask for a player, they need to hang on to that player like grim death and completely rethink their approach to that player's development. Consequently, Arnold and team will need to shift approach and start faking teams out by making their first proposal the players they actually don't want to acquire, and only pivot to their real target after the other team initially balks. Arnold is already playing 3D chess, so this should not be a difficult transition.
  14. Well, this article certainly looks prescient today. Nice job Mr. Stern!
  15. That ‘39 Yankee team had a .702 win percentage and a +411 run differential. Baseball history is just wild. Pretty cool to be in the same sentence as a team like that.
  16. 19-11; 3-2 in Chicago to clinch the season series.
  17. If that is true, and Turang has been plan B all along (and their published depth chart, for whatever that is worth, would back that up), and they are waiting for Joey to hit rock bottom again like he did in April-May, well, we’re about a week away from needing to pull the ripcord. In April-May, he had an OPS in the .480s. In June he had a .748 OPS. This month is down to .552. This last home stand? .118. We live in the era of the NL DH and it is like we’ve got a pitcher hitting again. Only when we had pitchers hitting, we had Yovani Gallardo (.837 OPS in 2010!) or Zack Greinke (OPS’d over .600 for three straight seasons, including .788 in 2013) or Brandon Woodruff (postseason OPS? 1.833!…in 3 ABs…) taking some of those at bats. I’d rather see those guys go hack than this version of Ortiz. And, yes, the comparisons to those cherry-picked pitcher seasons is half tongue-in-cheek. But only half.
  18. To me, the story isn’t that we traded Jorge Quintana. It’s that we had to do it in a salary dump. I’m not one of those people who thinks Attanasio is a cheapskate, but this is one of those situations that is hard to square with him saying repeatedly over the last few weeks that adding salary would not be an obstacle to improving the team. Then we do this deal of Cortes and have to add a prospect to help balance out the money in the acquisition of Shelby + Montgomery? That rings a bit hollow. Now I happen to think it entirely possible Attanasio would have ok’d a higher team salary for a big addition. But little things like this make it harder to defend him on that.
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