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2021-09-23: Cardinals (Wainwright) at Brewers (Houser) [Brewers lose, 8-5 -- Crew up 5-0 early on two Tyrone Taylor home runs; bullpen scuffles allowing 7 runs]

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Would be nice to see Counsell go for a win this week. Craig’s the gambler with an ace down his sleeve that just keeps waiting to use it all while his pot continues to lessen. We went from cutting edge bullpen use to this.

Up 5-1 to down 7-5 while our two best relief pitchers watched from the bullpen.

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Bulldogboy First Round Pick

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Let's be real clear here. Outside of Taylor this team would be being shut out again. Pitching is an issue but the offense is wretched and I do not see that changing anytime soon. If you are one of those talking big and bad about how the Cards don't scare me you are not watching the games.
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Magic number is 3, so this is not entirely true.

 

Losing 2 out of 3 to the Mets is plausible and the Cubs sweeping the Cardinals is plausible. That puts us needing to beat the Cardinals in the last series of the season.

 

It’s not though. The Brewers had 9 more wins than St. Louis at the start of today. Even if Milwaukee didn’t win again this year in the regular season they’d finished 91 and 71. The Cardinals have to go 9-2 to tie.

 

Anything is possible, but the chances of the Brewers finishing the year with a 14 game losing streak and the Cardinals also winning 25 out of their final 27 games is in reality zero percent.

 

Except the Brewers don't need to lose 14 in a row and the Cardinals don't need to win 25 of 27 from right now because a great portion of that has already happened.

 

The Cardinals play the Cubs 7 times in their last 10. If they sweep us it is not that difficult to surmise them winning all 7 against the Cubs. Then we get the Dodgers in L.A. who most likely will still be playing for their division. If we get swept there, then even winning 2 out of 3 against the Mets, which hardly looks like a foregone conclusion, doesn't get us there.

 

There are still a lot of things that have to go wrong and yes it is still a statistical improbability but when you look at each possible event independently, none of them are implausible.

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Magic number is 3, so this is not entirely true.

 

Losing 2 out of 3 to the Mets is plausible and the Cubs sweeping the Cardinals is plausible. That puts us needing to beat the Cardinals in the last series of the season.

 

It’s not though. The Brewers had 9 more wins than St. Louis at the start of today. Even if Milwaukee didn’t win again this year in the regular season they’d finished 91 and 71. The Cardinals have to go 9-2 to tie.

 

Anything is possible, but the chances of the Brewers finishing the year with a 14 game losing streak and the Cardinals also winning 25 out of their final 27 games is in reality zero percent.

 

The mere fact that these conversations are still being had is nauseating.

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Looking ahead the Mets look to be throwing:

 

Tylor Megill (4.57 ERA

Rich Hill (3.87 ERA)

Carlos Carrasco (5.24 ERA)

 

Brewers will have Lauer/Burnes/Peralta.

 

 

I dont think it matters. Our aces can get beat like the rest of them.

 

Its pretty bad right now. these games dont matter brigade has made it through to the clubhouse.

 

You cant even complain about being tired. Every player has had weeks off from covid vacations or twisted ankles or whatever. Plus we had two days off last week. and a six man rotation.

 

The brewers are probably the most rested team in MLB at this point.

 

This is just nonsense to get swept in four games at home at this point in the season when the games are not meaningless

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Let's be real clear here. Outside of Taylor this team would be being shut out again. Pitching is an issue but the offense is wretched and I do not see that changing anytime soon. If you are one of those talking big and bad about how the Cards don't scare me you are not watching the games.

Yeah, these people must think it's easy to just turn it back on like a switch when they need to. No matter what sport you play, once you take your foot off the gas it's really hard to get it back.

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Let's be real clear here. Outside of Taylor this team would be being shut out again. Pitching is an issue but the offense is wretched and I do not see that changing anytime soon. If you are one of those talking big and bad about how the Cards don't scare me you are not watching the games.

 

I’ve watched. I’m not scared. We are not playing good baseball right now. Oh well. Hopefully, we will catch fire towards the last week and get right. If we don’t, who cares about the cards because you won’t be facing them anyways if they don’t get right. Maybe the pessimism from the fan base has leaked into the dugout. I don’t know.

 

This isn’t directed solely at you but this fan base is a bunch of weenies. Straight up weenies that are fearful of other teams. My god. It’s baseball. They’re a good team and will be on the postseason for the 4th year in a row with a legit chance to actually win it.

"This is a very simple game. You throw the ball, you catch the ball, you hit the ball. Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose, sometimes it rains." Think about that for a while.
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Magic number is 3, so this is not entirely true.

 

Losing 2 out of 3 to the Mets is plausible and the Cubs sweeping the Cardinals is plausible. That puts us needing to beat the Cardinals in the last series of the season.

 

It’s not though. The Brewers had 9 more wins than St. Louis at the start of today. Even if Milwaukee didn’t win again this year in the regular season they’d finished 91 and 71. The Cardinals have to go 9-2 to tie.

 

Anything is possible, but the chances of the Brewers finishing the year with a 14 game losing streak and the Cardinals also winning 25 out of their final 27 games is in reality zero percent.

 

The mere fact that these conversations are still being had is nauseating.

 

Maybe if the Brewers would win a single game people would stop worrying. It is becoming more feasible with each day that the doomsday scenarios can actually come to fruition.

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There are still a lot of things that have to go wrong and yes it is still a statistical improbability but when you look at each possible event independently, none of them are implausible.

 

So you are saying we could go 162-0 next year?

 

Yeah, statistical improbability over 10 games and statistical improbability over 162 games are the same thing. Good grief.

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Nola Beery College Ball

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Let's be real clear here. Outside of Taylor this team would be being shut out again. Pitching is an issue but the offense is wretched and I do not see that changing anytime soon. If you are one of those talking big and bad about how the Cards don't scare me you are not watching the games.

 

I feel like this team could throw another no-hitter and still lose 1-0.

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Looking ahead the Mets look to be throwing:

 

Tylor Megill (4.57 ERA

Rich Hill (3.87 ERA)

Carlos Carrasco (5.24 ERA)

 

Brewers will have Lauer/Burnes/Peralta.

 

I don’t trust this offense to do anything against anybody right now. Outside of Taylor, they stunk again today.

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