For the second straight season, the Milwaukee Brewers had the best record in baseball during the regular season. This time around, he surpassed the franchise record with 103. They should be the favorites to win the World Series and feel in the bullpen as they are taking no one lying down. They enter each series confident that they will win.
Perhaps they will. Hopefully it is.
They no longer have any virtual boxes in the regular season, but a few remain in the playoffs and it’s time to get the job done. Liberty has never won the NL Pennant (the only Pennant in the AL in 1982) and it is one of five MLB franchises without a title.
It’s been a theme in the playoffs this decade as well with the Brewers. In 2021, they won 95 games in the regular season and grabbed the No. 2 seed in the NL. The 88-win Braves lost three games to one in the NLDS. In 2023, the Brewers lost in the Wild Card Series as the No. 1 seed. 3 for the 84-win Diamondbacks. In 2024, the 93-win Brewers, again the No. 1 seed. 3, to the 89-win Mets in the Wild Card Series. Last year, the Brewers reached the NLCS and lost to the defending champion Dodgers.
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It seems fair, but he has made four straight playoff trips because of a lower playoff seed.
In Major League Baseball, much of the discussion centers on the size of the market because of the lack of a salary cap. With the spin, maybe it doesn’t feel like the Brewers are perpetual playoff losers or anything, but how are we talking about the Mets or the Cubs if we repeat the same playoff run for a decade?
And this is where I come to my request for Brewer.
I will not send it like that. Don’t act like someone’s David is Goliath (even though we know the outcome there). Not so “The Little Engine That Could.”
It’s not quite egregious to some, but that’s how things went under manager Pat Murphy. I said beforebut in recent seasons, he has cited opposing players’ salaries several times (including Matthew Boyd of the Cubs, who is under a two-year, $29 million contract).
Earlier this season, after taking the Cubs (as usual), Murphy offered this gem:[The Cubs] Most of them don’t even know our Latin names, so they’ve never been intimidated by us, but we don’t ask for that.”
Please begin I wonder what. The underdog must now be in the habit of being in the playoffs. If you want to change your results, change your mindset. Get over your head, Brewers, to be the Big Bad Wolf. You are the Terminator. You are a great leader.
Walk into the ballpark thinking the other team is afraid of you.
History doesn’t matter. I will rewrite history. No need to decorate the cat. Indiana coach Curt Cignetti carried himself with an air of “all of us should be worried” and made history two seasons ago, turning the Hoosiers from Big Ten cellar dwellers to first-time national champions. No, “aw shucks, everyone knows Ohio State has better athletes than us,” or “yeah, Alabama has far better competition than us,” or anything other than an attitude that meant he not only hoped to win but knew it was going to happen.
This is where things need to shift with the brewery. Don’t fear the Dodgers or (if you’re in the World Series) the Yankees. You chuckle at how the Padres do so they lose the hot streakknowing that you Brewers have won 15 of your last 18 with a plus-46 run differential.
You have Jacob Misiorowski and Logan Henderson anchoring the rotation. You have Abner Uribe and Trevor Megill waiting in the bullpen. You have Jackson Chourio and Brice Turang and Jake Bauers and all kinds of hitting shots. You steal bases and play great defense.
You are the ultimate boss.
“We’re not going to be somebody’s dog,” Murphy said earlier this week.
Yes!
This is news, Brewers. Do more of that. Everyone else will adore you. Then you win the ball.