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I can accept this result if it serves as a less than subtle nudge that the offense needs an infusion or two. Surely there’s a way to do that without completely mortgaging the farm.

A wiser fella than me once said, “sometimes, you eat the b’ar, and sometimes, well, the b’ar eats you.” Today, we’re gettin’ et.

That’s it, I don’t want to see Siegler or this umpire anymore.

Yeah, I’m ready for Naylor now.

Give us robots already, please.

Chicago delenda est

Survived that one. The boys are finding ways to win right now and are on some kind of run. If this is the real Durbin, and Ortiz can just keep incrementally raising his game, that will make deadline shopping a lot easier. You can always use a bullpen guy, and maybe a 1B to platoon with Vaughn and/or Hoskins and save most of the prospects. But the way they're playing right now makes the next two weeks more and more interesting!

As usually happens in sports, as romantic as we all want to get about it, both sides did what was best for them. Woody probably took a bit of a haircut to stay in the home organization while he has surgery and rehab, and the Brewers made a dice roll on getting him back in the second half of 2025, perhaps knowing that pitching depth was going to be a little different with Burnes gone, and a QO always a nice bonus when Woodruff finally moved on to to richer pastures. I love Woody, he’s been a fan favorite for a reason, and it really stinks not being able to play this game like a top of market team and keep all your arms regardless of health risks, but this is just how we have to play the game. Having said that, no one should think any of the above applies to Craig “I know you because I am you” Counsell. Forget that guy. But Woody is just fine.

Not going to link to it for the sake of community guidelines and all that, but I immediately thought of the Japanese groundskeepers from Major League...

Certainly better than that 2018 five-game set against Pittsburgh, which is one of many Wisconsin sports memories I wish I could cast into the memory hole.

Can't stop, won't stop!

Vaughn is just unreal. He may already be a legend.

The Brewers now have 28 wins against .500 or better clubs this year, which is tied for the most such wins in all of baseball, and have more such wins than either the Cubs or Dodgers. Your Milwaukee Brewers are taking it to the big boys this year.

Sweep the Dodgers and hold them to four runs in three games, most of that Ohtani? Sign me all the way up. Brewers better be careful, or they’ll play themselves into full-on go for it position…

0-4 no more! Atta boy, Chourio!

Fantastic work by Megill. It is all right there, now. Frelick on 2nd, 2-3-4 in the order to get him in. Let’s get the sweep!

Nah, Miz should go.

Heck. Yeah.

Not a fan of Ohtani’s antics on pitches that are just off the inside corner. Kinda dramatic, but I’ll admit my tolerance for shenanigans is low for someone who is supposed to be on baseball Rushmore someday.

If we’re shopping at the Diamondbacks store, Josh Naylor would sure be nice, but that isn’t happening. This probably isn’t the year to take a big shot anyway.

@markedman5 had the list above, and it is equally stunning and troubling. The 2nd most pitches were by deGrom, who has 50. Miz has 18 already, good for 7th all-time. At this pace, he’ll be halfway to 2nd after his next start, meaning the rate at which he is going is practically unprecedented. We’d all be thrilled with a deGrom outcome, obviously, but he tore his UCL during his first year in the minors, came back and was a stud for the next decade, and then needed another Tommy John in 2023. That feels like the absolute ceiling for Miz, but that elbow has to be the world’s most high-stakes game of Jack-in-the-box at this point. Considering the Brewers don’t offer stud pitchers second contracts under normal circumstances (Peralta and Ashby got deals before they really showed their true form, Woody got a make-good deal after injury), plus the real possibility of finishing ROY taking away a year of team control, and it just seems like the value clock is racing almost as fast as he climbs that chart of most pitches over 101. To be clear, I hate having to think like this. I wish we could play the game like the Dodgers, using the IL to stash injured superstar arms left and right while we bide time to get them back for another pennant run, but we can’t operate that way. The team needs to maximize value, and I suspect the most likely way to do that is to trade him before injury and while he has the most number of cost-controlled years. I’m equally convinced that that will never happen in a million years, so I’m left with just hoping he beats the odds. I’m over the moon at how he’s started, after all that’s said and done. He will struggle at some point, of course, but he could be as good as it gets, and having him wear the Brewers uniform for several years is still a dream come true.

The sakura, or cherry blossom tree, is revered in Japan not just for its beauty, but for its poignancy. Blooming for at most only two weeks every year, they are cherished while in full flower, as picnickers and revelers bask in the fleeting glory and ponder their own mortality. I thought of this as soon as Miz got the call and is already in the top 10 in all-time number of pitches over 101 mph. Such things are not meant to last. The human body is not designed to throw like he is throwing a baseball, and if he keeps doing this, his arm will inevitably fail, and likely sooner rather than later. But just like one cannot bid the cherry blossoms to cease their unfolding, one would not tell such a rare talent as Misiorowski not to pitch. In a vacuum, the only logical thing for the Brewers to do would be to trade him, probably as soon as this winter. I don’t think such a pitching asset—so much talent over so many cost-controlled years—has ever hit the market, and the return would probably be astronomical. What could the franchise become after a trade like that? The mind fairly boggles. But, of course, the average fan would hate the organization for that, maybe for a generation, and I see no way of explaining the move to even the clubhouse, much less the fan base. So instead, I suppose the brass and the fans alike have to hope against hope for eternal springtime, willing the blossoms to cling to their branches, at least for a few hundred innings. But what a sight those precious few years promise to be!

So can we just skip ahead to when we’ve got the surprise hot NL wildcard team (idk, maybe the Giants this year?) at home in a game 3 and Megill holding a slim lead with two on and two out? Because at this point, I’m not sure our Brewers know how to tell a different story…

Yeah, his sub.700 ops would certainly fit in nicely. In all seriousness, I always liked him too, until he went to them.