Official Silver Lining Thread

[BrewCityUnit]

If we win tonight....all is fine. Lets find a way to split this 4 game series with the Reds. I don't care about records, the Reds have been a decent team since their miserable start. Considering our road troubles, winning 2 games in this series is an accomplishment in my mind. Only 1 team can say they have a better record than us in the National League. One game isn't going to get me to start thinking negative. I can't wait to watch Yo pitch tonight. 7-3 Brewers victory sounds about right to me.

[TheMCG]

Fielder is seemingly starting to come up with big hits with RISP, which if I remember reading the stats earlier this year he wasn't. Too bad it's meaningless since he's the only player capable of producing them, but it's a nice thing to see develop nonetheless.

[Roscoe Chill]

I'll save some money by not having to get playoff tickets?

[drezdn]

Though they lost, some of the slumping players started hitting again today.

[Bring Back the Stein]

The emotional investment in a ROTY race is not as high as in that of a pennant race. Freed by Brewers pitching from that burden, I'll be able to get my fantasy football knowledge up-to-speed. Thanks Coco!

[Fear The Chorizo]

No matter how crappy things seem right now, every Brewer fan is going to wake up tomorrow with their team in first place - so obviously, their outlook could be worse!

 

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[1992casey]

There's a lot of good signature material in the vent thread.

[pg44]

There is none. We're going to blow a huge lead to the Cubs. The Cubs! Tick, tick, tick...

[crewcrazy]

Before this series, the Reds also spanked around a fairly good Braves team. They're playing some good baseball right now, even against other teams than the Brewers. Losing the series stinks, but a new one starts tomorrow.

[Ennder]

spiff.rit.edu/richmond/ba...reaks.html

 

If you look at the graph called Streaks of consecutive games with .500 record you'll notice that the Brewers this season are not abnormal at all.

 

Assuming the team has the talent of a .550 winning percentage team you could expect between 60-140 games of .500 play at some point in the season. It is not abnormal at all to have prolonged streaks of .500 play even for a good team.

 

For a .600 winning percentage team you could expect between 35-85 games of .500 play in the middle of the season somewhere. Even a really good .600 team is going to play up to half a season of .500 ball.

 

The division is going to come down to who gets hot in the last two months and just because the Cubs are hot now and we aren't doesn't mean things are lost.

[uecker9]

The Cubs will catch the Brewers.

Fate and Karma will catch the Cubs.

Brewers win division by 4 1/2 games.

All off season we get to hear the sweet sound of the Cubs pouring more money down the urine troughs to try to catch the Crew next year.

[drezdn]

Nice Ennder. I really think they'll come around. While we were losing two to the Giants (once against a really , the Cubs lost 2 to the Diamondbacks (a team we took 3 from).

 

Hopefully, the Brewers line will trend up in time.

[drezdn]

The Brewers get a day of rest on Monday, while the Cubs have to play four games against the Phillies and then the Mets with no break.

[logan82]

Brewers baseball all day on Saturday. Wow, if my wife didn't have to work I would throw a huge party. It is like a holiday.

[adambr2]

Well, Cordero blew the save, we lost 3 of 4 to the Reds, and our road record dropped to an abysmal 20-29.

 

Hours later, the Cubs didn't gain any ground on us.

 

That's all I got.

[crewcrazy]

Aaron Harang pitches Saturday against the Cubs. Wouldn't it be awesome to get two wins on Saturday combined with a Cubs loss?

[brewersin07]

You really don't need to worry about the Cubs. They are playing miles above their heads. They will slow down soon. Zambrano is pitching way over his head. (he is still really good, but not as good as he's pitching) Hill has two pitches. Marshall isn't that good. Lilly has never been good. Marquis sucks. Their offense isn't that good either. Remember, Cubs- Completely Useless By September!!!!

[twobrewers]

Mike Maroth cures what ails opposing batters!

[crewcrazy]

There's not one, but *two* Brewer games tomorrow -- how cool is that!? http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/smile.gif

[Thurston Fluff]

Just read the Sun Times and saw this

 

Quote:

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Until losing two straight to Arizona last weekend, the Cubs hadn't lost two in a row in a month. Now they've done it twice in a week. And a continued lack of big hitting is starting to catch up to a pitching staff that is cooling off since its torrid start to the month.

 

Until the top of the ninth Friday, the struggling, singles-hitting lineup managed just four hits and two unearned runs against Bronson Arroyo, who had won only twice since May 6.

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I know it's a small sample and I'm not suggesting they are going in the toilet but this is the first time in a while they have shown signs of regressing to the mean. I thought it even more interesting given the discussion in another thread about the Cubs ability to hit in clutch situations where the Brewers can't ect. and how we lost so much off our lead. If the Cubs are starting to play to the norm and the Brewers play to theirs the Brewers may have held the lead through the biggest challenge to that lead of the year.

[MadisonBrewerBlue]

i'm trying to find the silver lining after the latest debacle, but its hard.

ryan braun deserves to be on a better team.

[jlau20]

We've scored 6+ runs in two consecutive days?...

[crewcrazy]

- Yo pitches tomorrow with the chance of splitting a road series (!!).

- Worst case scenario (Brewers lose Sunday, Cubs win Sunday, Cubs win while Brewers are off Monday) -- the Brewers are still tied for first place when their home series with the Mets starts on Tuesday.

- The Cubs have to face Cole Hamels in the first game of the Philly series, and the Cubs are putrid against left handed pitching, even during their hot streak

- Tom Glavine, who will pitch the first game of the Mets series against the Brewers, is left handed, and we all know how well the Brewers hit lefty pitching.

[thablingster]

Ryan Braun is a stud, and is willing to say what needs to be said even though rookies are supposed to be seen and not heard.

[brettac1]

The environment here will improve as the bandwagon jumpers hop onto Packers training camp starting.

 

They picked the right time to slump.