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CURRENT STANDINGS






updated September 23rd

Glad to get out of PNC Park!

I love how fox chicago is saying we are choking because we have lost 3/4 in a place we never do good.

good stuff good stuff.

I, personally, can't help but feel concerned at this juncture. This roadtrip is full of teams that the Brewers need to have beaten and they haven't. Meanwhile, the Cubs have flipped on the switch that their talent is capable of switching on. Now, the Brewers have to keep glancing in the mirror as the Cubs give chase, and that's not a position that I don't like them being in, and frankly they shouldn't be in with the May debacle. Speaking of May, those same tendencies have resurfaced this month, haven't they?

I don't care how bad the Brewers have been historically in Pittsburgh. This is supposed to be a different team then the previous, oh, 20 years. A team like the Pirates shouldn't manhandle you like they just did, regardless of where they're playing. In the last 7 games, the Brewers are 2-5, the Cubs are 5-2. The Cubs are doing what they are supposed to be doing, beating the teams they need to beat in Washington, and proving they can beat good teams in the Brewers. The Brewers proved they couldn't beat a far worse team in Pittsburgh, and a team they need to stave off in Chicago.

I'm not jumping off anything, but needless to say, I don't like what's happening. The Brewers need to not only win the series in Washington, but dominate it going into the Break, or this lead in the division could be down to a game and a half in a matter of 10 days.

I'm not getting worried. Yeah, it's a little concerning that they got pushed around by the Pirates in the last few days, but, I keep telling myself that this is a very young team who will no doubt have it's bad stretches over the season. There are still some 70 games left to play in the season; it's still way too early to start thinking it's a sinking ship.

Im defintly not worried yet. We still have much better pitching than the Cubs. Starters and bullpen both. Pitching wins come September/October. Their hitters are starting to catch fire and especially Soriano so that kind of worries me cause you knew it was going to happen sooner or later but I still dont think they have the bullpen to stick with us.

SugarRay34 wrote:We still have much better pitching than the Cubs.

Have you seen our pitching lately? We have one good starter and a bunch of crap.

I agree though bullpen is better.

the break should do every team good. here's to hoping prince doesn't strain himself a la carlos lee in the hr derby.

Hopefully cappy starts to pitch like cappy! We need him to make a playoff push in sepetember!

I know Cappy will start pitching like he should, hes got great command and the ASB should defintly help him. I just want Suppan pitching like the 42 million we paid him. Enough of this 5IP 105 pitches 4ER stuff. (Although thats basically what his career has been)

The Brewers are making me feel like Bob Uecker does in this segment:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiPCRqFB06g

humanrefutation wrote:The Brewers are making me feel like Bob Uecker does in this segment:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiPCRqFB06g

I don't get it.

RealGm came out with their baseball predictions for the 2nd half and they have Milwaukee finishing 2nd behind Chicago.

Here is what they said.

The Brewers are one of the great stories of the first half, but which version of the Brew Crew is really them?

Is it the one that went 16-9 and and 17-9 in April and June or is it the 14-15 team of May and the 2-6 team of July?

Okay yeah we haven't played great against the good teams but we play 24 games against teams with a record currently above .500. 14 of those games are at home.

The Cubs have a 19-23 record against teams with above .500 records so they're not great either.

We also play 16 games against current last place teams.

Milwaukee