2019-06-19: Brewers (Davies) at Padres (Strahm) 2:40 PM CDT [Brewers lose, 8-7 -- Crew blows 7-5 lead in the 7th inning]

[pacopete4]

Care to elaborate on how having the 3rd best record of 15 NL teams is “bad baseball” ?

 

It’s not. It’s just expecting something and not seeing it happen. Many had way too high of expectations and it’s ruining a time in Brewers history for them. Maybe some re-runs of the early 2000’s would help during rain delays or something.

 

I don't get this argument at all. Do we not deserve to expect great Brewer teams just because we had terrible teams 20 years ago so now we should just appreciate anything better?

 

I said a similar thing a month ago or so, but record-wise, we are fine. There is nothing wrong with our record. Performance-wise, we are not fine. We have played about. 500 quality baseball and been fortunate to have enough bounces go our way to be better than that. It would be good to see them correct those performance issues because our record pace isn't sustainable with this kind of performance to date.

 

As far as expectations, we are returning almost everyone from last year's team that missed the World Series by 1 game, only now we added Moose for the entire season instead of 2 months plus one of the best catchers in baseball.

 

I think the high expectations are quite fair.

 

Having expectations are great and should happen. Thinking that it was a for sure WS caliber team is another thing. Many breaks went the Brewers way a season ago. It was great. Stearns tried to off set some of the corrections by adding the players he did. This team can get hot again and make a run but it won’t be a shock if they don’t.

[Pugger]

Care to elaborate on how having the 3rd best record of 15 NL teams is “bad baseball” ?

 

Brewer baseball has been less than wonderful on this road trip, frankly. We haven't gotten many breaks but we've screwed up too. Like I said in another GDT thank goodness it is still June and we have a lot of baseball to be played.