Courtesy of B K who is on vacation.
Yesterday made us kind of 
But today we will kick them in the A'ss.
Today's line up: 
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Well, it's just one game.
Truly an ugly game. Houser had nothing and the Brewer got shut down by a guy with an ERA over 8. Now Erceg looks like an All Star. The Brewers gave him away a couple weeks ago. What a break for him, or any older guy fighting his way to the show, to get traded to a team like the A's. Two years ago he was a 3B fighting alcoholism. Now look at him.
No hits in the last 7 innings. Hard to win with that lack of offense.
Good start. 
Tehran has pitched great every game but the Brewer have given him no support. 4 Runs in 4 starts.
Hope the Crew can pull out a win, lose to the absolute worst in baseball, wow.
OH, B I L L Y !!!!
440 footer
WTF
Just another game with little offense. The A's might be the worst team in baseball but they just outplayed the Brewers twice.
Losing the first two games to a 14-50 Athletics team is the most Brewers thing ever.
Why do we play down to terrible teams?
ð ðĪĢ ð ðĪĢ ð oh yah, the Crew is the best team in baseball. NOT. LOSE TO the worst team in baseball TWICE??? Seriously??? ðĪŽ ðĪŽ ðĪŽ
Who said the Brewers were the best team in baseball, or even close to it?
To be fair I donât think anyone was suggesting they were the best team in baseball. They have done as they often do- get off to a hot start and then get really cold. They still got a lot of young talent and may get hot at the right time. Weâll see.
@lambeausouth posted:Who said the Brewers were the best team in baseball, or even close to it?
A FAN would say that their team is the best in baseball.
This team has been ridiculously up and down. But theyâre slightly better than average record seems about right. I think the hot start may have set higher expectations.
No doubt injuries, mostly to starting pitching have put the team in a hole. A few position players too. The young guys will come around eventually. The thing they have this year they have not had in the past is speed. Wiemer can run down almost any ball in the outfield as can Mitchell until he got hurt. Just need to tread water until some guys get back. Next man up is not as doable in baseball as in football.
I think the Mitchell injury hurt them as much as anything. They lost a lot of energy and defense when they lost him. Weimer's defense in CF replaced him but it moved Anderson off 3B where he is very good. It hurt their defense in RF and 3B. Mitchell was a catalyst on offense also. BB, stolen base , single, and a run. Very few manufactured runs since he left. Tellez and Adames have been pathetic and for the Brewers to score those guys have to hit a lot better. Tellez has been losing playing time instead of being a fixture in the lineup daily.
@Goldie posted:A FAN would say that their team is the best in baseball.
That âfanâ would be an idiot if they said that and their team clearly wasnât the best.
Thereâs a difference between fandom and myopia. Iâve been a diehard Brewers follower for over 40 years. Yet thereâs not a mind altering drugs strong enough on this Earth to convince me the 2023 Brewers are the best team in baseball, especially after being beaten twice by the worst team in the Majors.
Does that mean I donât love the team? Does that mean that they couldnât win the World Series? Of course not.
Losing Mitchell, and what he brings to this team, is huge.
Line up to try and at least salvage one game.
The A's have the longest winning streak in the American league, right now
seems like to good day to break that.
Yelich with a 381 ft. homer in the 2nd. Crew up 1-0. Make it last Freddie.
Monasterio singles and Miller doubles and the Brewers have a 2-0 lead after 3.
Freddie gives it all back and more. A single, hit batter and a 3 run homer and then a solo homes and it's 4 runs. Brewers have 2 singles in the 4th but both stranded. Now 4-2 A'ss.
13 HRs in 70 innings for Peralta. Too many Brewer veterans are having down seasons. Other than Miller and Williams no veteran that the Brewers were depending on has done well.
Pretty nice job from Peguero, to keep that runner on third from scoring .
Bottom 8th, down by 2, runners on 1st and second, lead run at the plate, Mt. Fujiama firing 101 mph fastball in the dirt.......Perkins at the plate here we go, friggin pop-up.
Now it's a beatdown.
Pathetic series.
The weakness of the NL Central will keep them on the fringes of playoff competition for a while, but this is a not a contending team.
When the Brewers send up a pinch hitter in Singleton that's hitting .136 I think it's evident that we have issues. The A's are just a bunch of young guys that are playing hard, gaining confidence, and finally getting some results. It's refreshing, just too bad it's at the Brewers expense.
@MichiganPacker posted:Pathetic series.
The weakness of the NL Central will keep them on the fringes of playoff competition for a while, but this is a not a contending team.
If the Cardinals ever start playing the division is theirs. They're known to go on some ridiculous hots streaks and will only take one of those to win this division.
4 more walks and this is tied!
ammo sucks at thread starting.
I guess more evidence for itâs not who you play, but when you play them. A day of rest will be good and then on to Minnesota to hopefully wash the bad taste out of their mouths.
There are no excuses for this. I donât want to hear the team was tired, or they had injuries. This is a historically bad Aâs team that was 14-50 headed into our series. Thatâs a .219 winning percentage. They were on a pace to go 35-127, the worst record by a team since 1899. And they SWEPT us. At HOME.
Just a pathetic showing all around.
Yesterday you agreed with me that injuries are holding them back. Today you don't want to hear about injuries. Which in the hell is it? Get on one side of the fence or the other. Quit waffling like a politician.
The problem is that every batter is the same. A few have more speed than others, but itâs a team of guys thatâll hit .220-.240, hit 15-20 homers a year, and mostly suck with RISP. It feels that way by design.
Solo homers are nice, but this team isnât built to have sustained innings.
Because the Brewers can't/won't spend any serious money this team really has a small windows to win. They really can't afford injuries or down seasons from guys they count on because their farm system just isn't good enough. I look at the Rays and they are basically in the same situation but they are good year after year because of their farm system. Adames is arguably our best player yet the Rays could trade without hesitation because they had a player in the minors that was better.
Itâs a bit of a catch-22 for a small market team: canât win games without scoring more runs, but teams lacking good pitching donât win many games. Pitching has been up and down, but more often than not, good enough to win the game/series. I wouldnât want to sacrifice that for expensive position players on a star lacking offense. The Crew have had plenty of seasons with good hitters but no pitching. I wouldnât want to revert to that.
