Marlins at Brewers Series Thread

[blazza18]

Braves walkoff gets an RT from the mlb twitter account. Brewers don't. I'm not mad.

[trwi7]

It’s awesome because they won’t go into a full tank but are still fairly well run for a small market and you’re still **** wasting your time here praying for a 5 year tanking fest starting today.

Hey, it's great that we fell ass backwards into a top 5 pick once and then decided to forgo continuing on that path in an attempt to compete. It's great. That 86 win banner will look awesome.

Speaking of tanking I feel like that strategy has diminishing returns this year with so many teams not trying. A pretty bad team is going to still finish like 12th in the race for the bottom. We saw that a bit this year in the NBA too.

If we had actually done it when we should have we'd be either at the very end or just coming out of the top 5 draft picks starting this year.

[Kerb Hohl]

It’s awesome because they won’t go into a full tank but are still fairly well run for a small market and you’re still **** wasting your time here praying for a 5 year tanking fest starting today.

Hey, it's great that we fell ass backwards into a top 5 pick once and then decided to forgo continuing on that path in an attempt to compete. It's great. That 86 win banner will look awesome.

Speaking of tanking I feel like that strategy has diminishing returns this year with so many teams not trying. A pretty bad team is going to still finish like 12th in the race for the bottom. We saw that a bit this year in the NBA too.

If we had actually done it when we should have we'd be either at the very end or just coming out of the top 5 draft picks starting this year.

You’re talking to someone that literally left 25 years of Bucks fandom and outside of casual fandom never came back late in the Kohl era. I get the mediocrity argument.

Baseball is a lot different. I’d have hopped aboard the tanking wagon if they so chose, but they’re pretty well run and they still were fairly smart about the rebuild. Winning 85-90 games over several years can win you a championship in baseball. Winning 45ish in basketball almost certainly doesn’t.

You can also rise from an 85 to a 90+ win team in baseball without a top pick if you’re well run.

I just don’t understand why you’re wasting your time with this if this is such a problem. Cut the cord. Take Marlins Man’s seat on that bandwagon.

[trwi7]

You do realize it's not easy to cut the cord, right? If it was easy I would've stopped being a Bucks fan like 10 years ago.

[Kerb Hohl]

You do realize it's not easy to cut the cord, right? If it was easy I would've stopped being a Bucks fan like 10 years ago.

It’s real easy. Go and enjoy other **** or pick a new team. I can’t think of anything that is more of a waste of time than intently watching a team and cheering against them (when they are decent and clearly not tanking) and also praying for a tanking stretch of years.

[trwi7]

It's easy for you because you **** live out of state. I like baseball. My only option to watch baseball is the Brewers and I certainly don't care enough about another team to pay whatever MLB.tv or whatever it is costs. I don't even watch the Brewers a ton. Lepay and Anderson suck. I've heard every Schroeder cliché 10,000 times. Attanasio's voice makes me want to beat toddlers etc.

Doesn't mean I'm going to stop talking about how they should've tanked. Or how they have been lucky. Or how they have been **** against teams that aren't terrible. If you hate it so much, put me on **** ignore.

[WeekapaugGroove]

It’s awesome because they won’t go into a full tank but are still fairly well run for a small market and you’re still **** wasting your time here praying for a 5 year tanking fest starting today.

Hey, it's great that we fell ass backwards into a top 5 pick once and then decided to forgo continuing on that path in an attempt to compete. It's great. That 86 win banner will look awesome.

Speaking of tanking I feel like that strategy has diminishing returns this year with so many teams not trying. A pretty bad team is going to still finish like 12th in the race for the bottom. We saw that a bit this year in the NBA too.

If we had actually done it when we should have we'd be either at the very end or just coming out of the top 5 draft picks starting this year.

They should have rebuilt after prince left. But what's done is done. They could have sucked worse in 16 and picked higher than 9 last year but keston seems like a nice prospect so not sure that picking a few spots higher yields a better outcome. They won't be picking high this year but I just dont view that as a franchise killer.

[WeekapaugGroove]

I totally get that there are different perspectives based on how hardcore of a fan you are.

Baseball is my 3rd favorite sport behind NFL and NBA so it's more of a thing thats on in the background while I'm trapped inside in 110 heat playing dolls with my 3 yr old than something i ride or die for. So I appreciate a fun albeit flawed team that wins some.

[El Duderino]

8-1 against the steaming piles of **** in the league. 5-8 against teams that are at minimum semi-competent.

They definitely need to play better against competent teams if they want to be a serious contender.

I never discount wins vs bad teams because even bad teams will win 60 plus games, so wins aren't a given. Don't win them at a high clip and then if your team misses the playoffs by only a game or two, it's one reason why.

In all pro sports, good teams have to feast on the bad ones.

[msiris]

Someone said baseball is a game of inches so there is more luck involved . Someone here reminds me of the scornful old lady sitting in a chair watching everyone else having a good time. I get what he is saying but it is what it is.

[Turk Nowitzki]

Santana riding the bench against a LHP.

Read on Twitter

[coolhandluke121]

It's getting kind of sad with twirl. Been a long time since he poked his head of the weird little rabbit hole he got himself trapped in. He needs an exorcism or something. Tanking has turned into a cult-like belief in the rapture for him.

[ReasonablySober]

Hey but at least the Brewers are winning right now

[Turk Nowitzki]

Bases loaded, two outs, Brinson up to bat. What could go wrong?

[Aaron It Out]

[Turk Nowitzki]

That was cool.

[Turk Nowitzki]

This is some next level stuff from the Marlins.

[LuckyLoydWalton]

Sweeps against anybody are Sweet!

[ReasonablySober]

MAID ME, BITCHES.

[blazza18]