2. The entire Brewers/Cubs series is on National TV:
â Joe Robinson (@JoeDRobinson4) September 21, 2017
Thurs: MLB Network
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Still proud of this team no matter what happens.
Now go kick the **** out of those cubbies. :-)
Yeah agree. Damm fine season but it sure would be great to get in.
The Rockies & D-Bags don't deserve it like Milwaukee does.
If they miss it, they had ample opportunities just didn't cash in.
Hope they get in.
Why don't the Dbacks deserve to get in. They've played great the second half? Probably better than anyone outside of Cleveland.
I know there are games and series throughout a 162 game season, but the 3 game sweep at the hands of CIN earlier this month looms large.
Been a fun year. Usually focus switches almost 100% to football by the end of Aug. Nice to have the Brewers chasing something yet.
It's easy to remember the games 'blown' (so to speak) but hard to remember the games that 'they stole.' This team has bounced back strong after every 'gut punch' loss. Gonna be a fun weekendâĶ
Agreed H5, that's IF it doesn't work out that the one series someone could point too. All in all, definitely over achieved so if it works out awesome if not it was a great season to build on.
A lot of good young talent with guys like Lewis Brinson waiting in the wings. I haven't been this optimistic since the early days Fielder/Weeks/Hardy/Hart/Braun.
I sure hope the Brewers fans come out in full force in this series. I don't want to see 1/4 of that stadium filled with the a**hole Cub fans.
Brainwashed Boris posted:Yeah agree. Damm fine season but it sure would be great to get in.
The Rockies & D-Bags don't deserve it like Milwaukee does.
If they miss it, they had ample opportunities just didn't cash in.
Hope they get in.
If they deserve it they will get in, if they don't, it's on them.
I'm thinking that they will need 3 of 4 for the wild card, a sweep for the division. I'm with all of you in that this has been a fun season regardless, so let's keep it going.
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Lots of Cubs fans in the house.
Braun is so anti clutch right now its not even funny
Tschmack posted:Braun is so anti clutch right now its not even funny
<<THIS>>
As soon as Braun came up, I knew that he was going to make it out. Time to sit him?
Walks...
Wow... big K
MONSTER
Whew......
****ing schit strike zone
YES!!!!! Huge swipe.
Woo Hoo!!!!
Wow- great baseball tonight...
That's just good baseball.
Playoff baseball. Gotta hand it to Counsell- he had them ready, doing the little things.
Finish them!!
Man... glad they got the lead, but those clutch hits are eluding them. 5 left on inn2 innings.
Wow bad at bats from Broxton and Villar need to close this out
Cmon Jeffress.
Looks safe. Jeffress looked real slow getting over.
Of course he's safe
What the fu*k is that sh*t????
There's one
DP please
Here we go...
Make it two
One more
Filthy...
F*****
Damnit..
JFC
**** you Baez
Win this thing in the 9th boys....
Get it together Brewers finish these ****s
Baez acts like a bitch
Good baseball, followed by bad baseball got the lead then gave up the lead.
Here it is Braun - time to make it count you are due
Well, he made it count. Maybe not how you were thinking, but he did advance the runner.
Braun. Clutch.
It is time
Bases loaded bottom of 9th.
Cmon Crew.
Good grief- hits it TOO hard???
Make a few more changes Cubs
**** them up
How about a passed ball win?
Terrible at bat what else is new
Come on kid... be a hero.
Quit swinging for the goddamn fences
just need a hit
8 left on, 3 innings...
How many chances can you have
Maddening just maddening
Darn it. need more shutdown pitching.
Broxton choke.
Leave Phillips out there and there's 1 out
Drake looks out of his element.
Crap
God is Drake terrible.
Brewers peed down their leg in this one. Everything right for 8 innings. Then Jeffress didn't hustle, leaves one over the plate for the game tying run with 2 strikes, and 2 young kids can't make contact with them loaded with one out. Now the Cubs make them pay. A young team learned a big lesson tonight...
Note to self. Have Knebel available in most important series of season.
And Drake is in the majors because............??????????
Because the Brewers are rebuilding and thier roster is not yet complete ???
It was kinda rhetorical ïŋ―ïŋ―
Wow this home plate umpire has had a bad night. Not even close.
Packdog posted:Note to self. Have Knebel available in most important series of season.
This. Counsell overused the bullpen in the Pirates series. No need to use Swarzak last night. Should have let Hader pitch 2 innings last night and used Knable in the 9TH and saved Swarzak for tonight. I like Counsell but he screwed the pooch for this game. Except for the 3 mentioned our bullpen sucks.
Stearns and Counsell have done an incredible job! We had the players in position to make plays that would have won both of the last 2 games. Knebel makes the throw we win, Jefferess either made the play or should have moved slightly faster and we win last night. Managers on and off the field need to put players in spots they can succeed, our hitters are getting their opportunities to produce and our pitchers are pitching Great{minus Drake).
Make two plays and it's Miller Time!
The last two losses have been a kick in the nuts but who would have thought we'd be in this situation with 2 weeks to go?
Colorado losing takes some of the sting out of last nights loss but they need to take control and start getting timely hits as they had several chances to put the game away regardless of what Jeffress did and it should have never gotten to Drake in the first place.
Braun needs to start stepping up. His at bats lately have been really painful to watch.
To me it seems as if Counsell is managing like every game is a playoff game, which is not that far from reality. I have no problem with the bullpen use in the PIT series.
Agreed what Braun needs to step up.
Still having fun, and still somewhat surprised we are talking Brewers during NFL week 3.
The last two nights have sure felt like playoff games. Outcome wasn't good but fun to watch.
They need someone other than Santana to get clutch hits and ideally that's Braun and to a lesser extent Shaw.
Shaw smashed one with a man on second in the 9th. But as luck would have it, too hard to score him from second. Sh*t luck...
How unlikely are back to back bombs by Vogt and Phillips?? 
This game leave Phillips in-
Woodruff looks to be fading.
Where is this team without Shaw?
What in tha F was that?????
Hader... devastating...
Cubs are good.
Damn them.
I know I said earlier that win or lose it was a good ride and that I just site back and enjoy it but these last 3 games pissed me off.
Me as well, it was a fun ride, but when ya get so close, it's hard to lose. AND WHAT THE HELL WERE ALL THOSE CUB FANS DOING IN MILLER PARK???? Dang it.
We hear how "loose" this team is. Well, maybe they're too loose. Heard about how the club house was "rocking" with tunes (as usual) before today's game...well, it is not business as usual and you guys lost two tough games in 48 hours before this loss. Maybe some or at least one of these guys needs to get serious instead of reveling in the fact the Brewers have over-achieved this year.
GBP1 posted:We hear how "loose" this team is. Well, maybe they're too loose. Heard about how the club house was "rocking" with tunes (as usual) before today's game...well, it is not business as usual and you guys lost two tough games in 48 hours before this loss. Maybe some or at least one of these guys needs to get serious instead of reveling in the fact the Brewers have over-achieved this year.
So thatâs where youâre goin with it. Not âhey the Cubs are a vastly more talented team.â Not âBaseball, man. Weird stuff happens.â
Youâre taking the âthey were listening to music before the game which means they werenât serious or somethingâ and thatâs why they lost. Music. Before the game. Because listening to music before the game clearly means they are simply happy winning 81 games and they arenât concerned about winning or losing. Just banging out killer tunes dude.
Jesus Tapdancing Christ on a cracker.
Music, man. We talking music. Music. We're talking music. We're talking music. Music. Man. Music.
Another tough loss but if this team gets to extra innings it's pretty much a guaranteed loss.
The division race is likely over now and with Colorado winning and STL winning their wild card chances are fading fast.
Might be on to something with that music theory. And how many home runs did you see yesterday after players ran the "gauntlet?" I think this team needs to talk a page out of the classy Cardinals playbook if they want any success this year.
In addition to dropping the damn music those kids are listening to noadays, I have to suggestions to winning the whole damn thing.
Make Ned Yost the manager of the Cubs. No one can lose a season at the end of a season like Ned.
Sit Sogard. All he does is lose.
David Meade did not mean the world was going to end on September 23rd. What he meant to say is that the Brewer's playoff chances were going to end on September 23rd.
I wish it were as simple as music. Is that like the Brewers equivalent to icing the cookies?
Part of the problem is just a pure lack of experience. The Cubs are really good to be sure, but they have also been tested in the playoffs which prepares them well for these high pressure situations. It sucks to watch them come up short but they are battling and it should help them for future (similar) events.
What ticks me off is how the ****ing Cardinals took the gaspipe against Chicago but are now on fire which doesn't help Milwaukee one bit. We struggle to beat them and they can't help the Brewers when we need them. God I hate the Cardinals!! I hope Planet X or a small meteor crashes into BuschStadium or whatever the hell they are calling that place now.
You are taking this too serious. We weren't supposed to be here this season. The kids are feeling the pain of losing when it was big. Hopefully it leaves a mark that pushes them further next year.
Arcia blowing a kiss to the dugout while at bat Thursday was a sign they aren't quite there. Versus the Cubs Baez crouching lower and swinging harder to drive in big run.
Disappointing losses in the last 3 games.
We are so close, and so young. Gonna be fun these next few years.
They're not there. They have all the tools, but they lack the experience. That how you come up small in big spots. They have come up small 3 games in a row. So if this team is going to overtake the Cubs, who are the team to overtake, they're being shown right now what they need to do to do it.
No disrespect to the Brewers, but go Cubs!!!
i grew up a Milwaukee braves fan, I turned into a Cubs fan when the braves moved to Atlana.
nowadays, I am a Cubs fan.
but, I still relish a Brewers win over the Cubs. I am from Wisconsin after all.
go Cubs!!!
I am going to game Sunday. Too close to too many Chicago people! Screw the toll booth Walker. Just build a damn wall!
Guessing you're taking Barrett's Trolley ?
GrainBelt66 posted:No disrespect to the Brewers, but go Cubs!!!
i grew up a Milwaukee braves fan, I turned into a Cubs fan when the braves moved to Atlana.
nowadays, I am a Cubs fan.
but, I still relish a Brewers win over the Cubs. I am from Wisconsin after all.
go Cubs!!!
You just made me dizzy.
GBP1 posted:We hear how "loose" this team is. Well, maybe they're too loose. Heard about how the club house was "rocking" with tunes (as usual) before today's game...well, it is not business as usual and you guys lost two tough games in 48 hours before this loss. Maybe some or at least one of these guys needs to get serious instead of reveling in the fact the Brewers have over-achieved this year.
You know, I am just going to take this as sarcasm. If it is serious, it reminds me of the 'bad body language' comments on here during the Yost yearsâĶ
****.
Hey, they tried. It aint over yet but it don't look good.
What a great play by the loser. God I love that little guy. 
Thames has got to swing there. 2 on and he gets called on strikes to end the inning
Plucky Brewers
Vogt needs to throw better if he's going to be the guy...
Dang, I hate extra innings.....kiss of death for the Crew. 
What's the MLB record for consecutive extra inning losses?
Man the Brewers just cannot seem to seal the deal. Chicago is good but damn this is getting old.
Let's rally and break the streak
Sweet!!!!!
BALL GAME!!!!!!!!!!!! **** yes!!!!!!
Ballgame!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
That's what we're talking about! Way to go Shaw
ballgame
Couldn't watch.....AND THEN THEY WIN.
Shaw watched it the whole way until it cleared the fence right into the Brewers bull pen !
Rolled into town in time for Arcia's dinger. Looking forward to witnessing the next Chapter in Brewer history. Last game I watched at Miller CC hit the home run in the eighth and threw 9 straight strikes in the ninth to put us in the playoffs!
Been waiting for the right spot.
Must've been thier choice of pre-game music.
Need the mojo Ratpack
Brewers are undefeated in games I've attended this year albeit small sample size of 3 games lol. Was planning to go today or tomorrow but something else came up. Regardless, big win today and hope it carries over tomorrow.
Pie Rats just put 6 on St Louis in the first.
8!
In this seasons series Brewers have won 9, Cubs have won 9. But the Brewers have scored 8 more total runs, 88 to 80.
Great win today. The heart is still beating.
82 wins now makes it a winning season in 2017. Now let's get that wild card spot!
If Padres hang on to the 2-0 lead which is in the bottom of the 8th Brewers are back to 1 out in the wild card.
Watched the last two innings of the Padre/Rockies game. Colorado looks like a team with the weight of the world on their shoulders right now.
Just got shut out for the third time in the last four games.
On a side note, I had seen photos of Lucroy with the lumberjack beard, but didn't realize that he had shaved his head until he took off his batting helmet.
Nice!
Padres win 5-0.
Not done yet!!
Saw that, too. 1 game out. Although No losses are good at this point....but, hopefully the close losses followed by the exciting "walk-off" will give the Brew Crew some mojo the rest of the way. They seem to still be playing loose.
This is going to come down to the wire. Rockies play Miami and then the Dodgers in their last 6 games. We play Cincy and then the Aholes in our last 6.
It's amazing how Shaw's walk off could be what saved our post season chances. This team fought so hard all the way after 3 straight heartbreaking losses and found a way to win in extra innings. Thursday and Friday to me was the toughest losses to endure, Saturday was the sweetest win of the season IMO. Wade Davis with his first blown save in over a year. Shaw's first career walk off HR. Damn did we need that.
Going to pray for a win!
I want a 10 run win today just so the cub fans can drive home sad
CC really doesn't walk Walker batting right handed
CC must want the 10HR lineup today
Taters for everyone!
There's a stench in Miller. Smells like sweaty balls and that's the females from Illinoise
Why is Torres even on this team? 
That game was anti-climactic.
Well that took a lot of luster off season. Experience really showed itself this series. Got to keep fighting, let's get that WC spot.
They looked a little tired and flat today. Pretty emotional last few games so bound to happen.
Still within striking distance of the WC
