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*checks notes* Brewers are 10-11 in Anderson starts this year. Hard to complain about that from a #5 or #6 starter.

At least we didn't give up a 1st inning HR to Arenado, that has to be considered a win.

I see him as #7, behind Lauer, Houser, and Ashby. It's hard to rank a guy who can't make it past the 3rd inning without getting injured... [/sarcasm]

I'll be on the edge of my seat tonight with how much is at stake... Scenario 1: Brewers win Odds of winning division before game: >99.9% Odds of winning division after game: >99.9% Scenario 2: Brewers lose Odds of winning division before game: >99.9% Odds of winning division after game: >99.9% So it’s not 100% Not until we clinch. The following 3 scenarios remain in play (including a win in the tiebreaker by the Cards): Cards 11-2; Brewers 0-12 Cards 12-1; Brewers 1-11 Cards 13-0; Brewers 2-10

I'll be on the edge of my seat tonight with how much is at stake... Scenario 1: Brewers win Odds of winning division before game: >99.9% Odds of winning division after game: >99.9% Scenario 2: Brewers lose Odds of winning division before game: >99.9% Odds of winning division after game: >99.9%

For who? The Cardinals and Brewers are basically locked into their respective playoff spots now.

I wanted that one. Oh well.

It's mostly a reaction to who we are playing. Certainly we have an advantage as the only team in the NL that doesn’t have to play the Brewers.

Our hitters seem to be playing home run derby lately. Lots of pop ups.

Well they were below .500 as recently as August 9th, so I guess they’ve lost a few times as well. They're winning when it matters the most. Something they usually do. We’ll see if they can sustain it. People were saying the Yankees were headed to the World Series after they won 10 in a row.

Game 1 of the NLDS is going to have wildly different fan interest than a hypothetical game 6 of the NLCS with a 3-2 lead. 4 years ago I would have been beating down the door to get to any NLDS game. Now it's certainly exciting but i don't NEED to be there as we've been this far quite often recently. Yeah I won't be going to the NLDS. I'm not participating in the pre-sale this time but I'm just selling my strip, potentially until a clinch game of the NLCS and then I'd probably go to as many WS games as there are. I have some prior engagements 10/8 and 10/9 but winning a NLDS series a third time in 10 years isn't something I have to see in person. I can understand that feeling from season ticket holders who have been to a ton of playoff games. It felt like there was some fatigue by the time games 6-7 of the NLCS arrived in 2018...I was able to get face value tickets relatively easily for both of those games. Those also happened to be only the 2nd and 3rd MLB playoff games that I had ever been to. And I think people like me are why the playoff games will sell out anyway...if season ticket holders don't want the seats there will be plenty of others to scoop them up. As for reselling tickets at a markup...that's up to the Brewers to decide what is allowable. In my view, they are losing money when tickets are resold above face value and they should raise ticket prices if they think that is a problem. I would much rather just pay more to buy the tickets from the Brewers directly than deal with the unpredictable resale market. And the whole Wisconsin presale thing is stupid. Stop it. It's just another barrier to me getting tickets, and I'm as big of a Brewers fan as there is. Given the blackout rules, it's easier to be a Brewers fan outside of Wisconsin than in Wisconsin.

Let’s not forget, the Cards appears to have a gift-wrapped trip to the World Series in 2019 after drawing the Nationals in the NLCS. That ended up being one of the easiest 4-game sweeps that I can remember in MLB. And also, both the Cards and Nationals had thousands of empty seats in their NLDS games that year.

This is nuts, the Brewers are going to have massive fan interest for their playoff games. Just wait until the calendar turns to October they lead off the postseason with dominant outings from Burnes/Woodruff. Every causal sports fan in Wisconsin has been talking about the Bucks-Brewers title combo for months. My uncle who barely follows the Brewers asked about World Series tickets.

Cohen will eventually be a good owner, but it takes time. He's stumbled out of the gate but he's a smart guy who really wants to win and I think he'll figure it out eventually. Attanasio is way better at the job now than he was 10 years ago. There's no doubt that Stearns was set up for success by Melvin but especially Attanasio. That's part of why I'm not concerned at all if they decide to let him walk. To me, the first move showing that Attanasio knew what he was doing as an owner was when he hired Brian Anderson in 2007. Just a couple years in at that point and he recognized the importance of that role to the franchise, involved himself in the search, and resisted the temptation to make a "safe" hire.

I think attendance is fine, Brewers are 10th in MLB in attendance this year. They were 8th in 2019 and 10th in 2018. This year they are outdrawing several other first place teams including the White Sox and San Francisco. In my view, raw attendance numbers are never going to return to pre-pandemic levels. That era is over. Attendance across all sports was already in decline by the late-2010s and the desire for people to be in crowds or watch sports from bad seats has never been lower. The good news is that the attendance drop will surely force some much-needed changes to the sport and it will happen sooner rather than later. The Brewers certainly aren't helping themselves with how slow they play--they have played 17 home games this year with a game time of 3:45 or longer.

I don't see why they couldn't set up the stage in the Deer District again...I know it's not right at the stadium but it would still be a good use of the space.

Turned this on at halftime, I’ve paid zero attention to the Packers in the past 6 months. Not sure what everyone was complaining about??? ;-)

I want to try and care that we lost but I really don’t. They are on cruise control and I can’t blame them, they’ve earned it.

I prefer on base Jace to double play JBJ.

First the Cards need to get their division deficit down to single digits, if they can do that before the start of October then maybe they might catch the Brewers by November or December.

We knew back in March that the Cardinals had the talent to win the NL Central and they might have done so if the Brewers didn't transform into a 95+ win team. It shouldn't be a surprise that they are where they are right now...except for the fact that they basically mailed it in at the trade deadline and accepted that SD/CIN was going to get that WC2 spot. I wouldn't want to see Wainwright twice in a best-of-5 divisional series, but the Brewers certainly would be heavily favored vs. the Cards in the NLCS.

The crazy thing is he only needs a .550 OPS or so to be a zero WAR player. He can't even manage that!

The Brewers will surely endure attempts to poach talent with the success they are having. It will be interesting to see who (if anyone) is offered a competitive counteroffer to stay and who ends up moving on. There was a time when many of us, myself included, thought that Derek Johnson should be retained at any cost. Management didn't feel that way.

Oh yeah, I’m convinced that Attanasio’s ability to run an organization is behind this as much as anything. The guy just knows how to find talent and put people in a position to succeed.

Not a performance that is going to move Burnes to the top of Cy Young ballots.