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I love this team just as much or more than our previous playoff teams. They are so exciting to watch, and we have so much depth in our lineup. Now let's get Guerra back, bring up Espino and keep on winning!!

 

At least more fun than the playoff teams this century. This team sort of has the feel of the 78 or 80 Brewers. The 80 team had tons of offense, but was held back by pitching, 78 had the shock of being good after a number of poor years.

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I love this team just as much or more than our previous playoff teams. They are so exciting to watch, and we have so much depth in our lineup. Now let's get Guerra back, bring up Espino and keep on winning!!

 

At least more fun than the playoff teams this century. This team sort of has the feel of the 78 or 80 Brewers. The 80 team had tons of offense, but was held back by pitching, 78 had the shock of being good after a number of poor years.

 

Reminds me of the 1987 season. Had a bad 1986 season. Not much pitching outside of Teddy. Surhoff had a good rookie season, everyone had a pretty good offensive season other than Cooper so we were scoring lots of runs.

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Maybe 07 season as a comp, they started out really well and then blew it to the Cubs I believe and didn't make the playoffs. Team was very young and their first taste of being good leading to the solid years coming afterwards that we had. Hopefully that's the case here too but it ends with a WS win instead of NLCS
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At what point does Jesus Aguilar become an everyday player? I get that it is nice to have a big bat off the bench, but if he is as good as he has looked so far this year, wouldn't we want his production on an everyday basis?
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At what point does Jesus Aguilar become an everyday player? I get that it is nice to have a big bat off the bench, but if he is as good as he has looked so far this year, wouldn't we want his production on an everyday basis?

 

Should get plenty of ABs for Braun and giving Thames days off vs lefties (though Thames seems to have no issues with lefties so far). Let's just say I agree I'd rather him in at 1B and Thames in LF than to have Franklin out there.

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At what point does Jesus Aguilar become an everyday player? I get that it is nice to have a big bat off the bench, but if he is as good as he has looked so far this year, wouldn't we want his production on an everyday basis?

 

Should get plenty of ABs for Braun and giving Thames days off vs lefties (though Thames seems to have no issues with lefties so far). Let's just say I agree I'd rather him in at 1B and Thames in LF than to have Franklin out there.

 

Aguilar needs to play. Agreed times 1000.

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It's fun to have 2 bench guys who most everybody agrees need to be in the lineup everyday--and that does not even account for the "backup" catcher--whoever that is.
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Every year it seems we complain about having a terrible bench. Let's enjoy the luxury of having a really good bench for once. Most teams don't have the luxury of having 3 .800+ OPS players on the pine to plug in on a daily basis as spot starters or pinch hitters when needed.
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I can't get over how much depth we have. Braun and Shaw haven't even been playing and we still have AAA OF. Feel like while we are giving long leashes to pitchers, we have options to replace in minors And that replacement has begun, which could bear fruit. And if arcia starts hitting... Watch out!
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Your first place Milwaukee Brewers!!!!

The season is at the quarter pole (41 games in) and the Brewers are leading the NL Central while the AAA team has some quality talent waiting in the wings and a 23-12 record of their own. I have been cautiously optimistic at best to this point, but it is difficult not to let excitement creep in for the remainder of this season as well as the years to come.

Not just “at Night” anymore.
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homer MVP

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Have to like the way the guys are playing right now.

 

Without Braun and Thames.

"Dustin Pedroia doesn't have the strength or bat speed to hit major-league pitching consistently, and he has no power......He probably has a future as a backup infielder if he can stop rolling over to third base and shortstop." Keith Law, 2006
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Tim Van Vorran was on the radio this morning and he attributed a good chunk of the success to the team taking on the scrappiness and hard work of CC.

 

Drivel. I don't even know what scrappiness means, but I'm pretty sure hitting the snot out of the ball is the reason they're in 1st place. Last year they had a losing record, guessing it's not because they didn't work hard and this year they are. But the sports media in Wisconsin, in general, knows very little about baseball so it's easy to just throw out "my oh my what a scrappy group."

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That's the ESPN talking head bs creeping into everything. Who wants it more, who's clutch, who's distracted by something else etc. It's almost always about the actual game, not some mythological unprovable mental thing.

 

Cuban had a takedown of Skip/Stephen A about this after the Mavs beat the Heat. Was pretty much spot on and did it to them live. They were trying to blame LBJ's being mentally weak, choking, etc as the reason. At least I think it was them, might've been someone else on espn.

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Tim Van Vorran was on the radio this morning and he attributed a good chunk of the success to the team taking on the scrappiness and hard work of CC.

 

Drivel. I don't even know what scrappiness means, but I'm pretty sure hitting the snot out of the ball is the reason they're in 1st place. Last year they had a losing record, guessing it's not because they didn't work hard and this year they are. But the sports media in Wisconsin, in general, knows very little about baseball so it's easy to just throw out "my oh my what a scrappy group."

 

 

OPTIMISM THREAD! THEY ARE THE SCRAPPIEST BUNCH OF SCRAPPERS THAT EVER SCRAPPED.

"Dustin Pedroia doesn't have the strength or bat speed to hit major-league pitching consistently, and he has no power......He probably has a future as a backup infielder if he can stop rolling over to third base and shortstop." Keith Law, 2006
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