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Historical Gamer @historicalgamer.bsky.social · 1d

He doesn’t and that’s not unusual but it does making the pleading poverty grating.

Historical Gamer @historicalgamer.bsky.social · 1d

Maybe just don’t talk about it. It’s obnoxious. The brewers could spend more than they do. I’m not as mad as some, but if Mark was less typical and more of an enigma he certainly could spend more and worry less about short term profitability.

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Historical Gamer @historicalgamer.bsky.social · 1d

You can, if I can, but that doesn’t matter in terms of what will move (or not) an originjzation.

Historical Gamer @historicalgamer.bsky.social · 1d

I’m happy they won a series. I just wouldn’t say everything else is gravy.

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Historical Gamer @historicalgamer.bsky.social · 1d

It’s also just obnoxious to hear the 1 seed talk so much about how bad/limited they are. I can’t imagine that’s conductive to playoff success. It’s the same way how Mark A talks every year about how little money they have. It’s tone deaf and not good for a franchise or fanbase to talk like that imho

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Historical Gamer @historicalgamer.bsky.social · 1d

Imagine the “best team in the league” not having any higher aspiration than a round 1 win.

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Historical Gamer @historicalgamer.bsky.social · 1d

At the end of the day nothing matters except fan “perception” anyway. Perception is reality to a fanbase. That’s going to be a problem even if reality is “different.”

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Historical Gamer @historicalgamer.bsky.social · 1d

I will say I am maybe getting a bit out over my skis because the brewers haven’t had brewers like at bats since game 1 of the NLDS. They completely abandoned the “pesky stay alive” approach after game 1 and have tried to be a team they are not.

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Historical Gamer @historicalgamer.bsky.social · 1d

If that was true than a small market team would win more than once a decade.

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Historical Gamer @historicalgamer.bsky.social · 1d

He was getting lightly boo’d when he was on the tv in the concourse near 223 last night when the score was 2-1. 🤷‍♂️

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Historical Gamer @historicalgamer.bsky.social · 1d

Broken in that the small market can win 97 games and still have no chance at winning because their roster construction is just not even fractionally good enough. A league where the best team in the league isn’t close to the best team. Where there is no path to competing on anything other than luck.

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Historical Gamer @historicalgamer.bsky.social · 1d

Putting it this way, maybe playoff expansion is actually a bad thing for small markets. Sure you might have a few more playoff games but your odds of winning it all are less because it’s easier for the super teams to take the season off and that leads to less variance between talent and results.

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Historical Gamer @historicalgamer.bsky.social · 1d

This team is not that unlike the 2016 packers, a team so uncompetitive in the conference championship after many disappointing postseason performances, the fanbase is a bad season or two away from a turn so hard the org may choose to reset.

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Historical Gamer @historicalgamer.bsky.social · 1d

but you can only look uncompetitive so regularly in the playoffs before making the playoffs is actually not something that wins you goodwill. 2011 was the best lineup in the NL, something they’ve never come close to since.

Historical Gamer @historicalgamer.bsky.social · 1d

I think that might be true but I also think it’s why Mark has increasingly alienated himself from the fanbase and it is going to cost them long term. The goodwill for this team is on a knife’s edge, which is wild to say in the NLCS and after a 97 win season,

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Historical Gamer @historicalgamer.bsky.social · 1d

I wasn’t suggesting they cut the time short necessarily, my point was more like you might have an NBA like slotting system where guys get paid more during their their initial contract then a cap on the back end makes up for it so the superstars make a little less & everybody else makes a little more

Historical Gamer @historicalgamer.bsky.social · 1d

the Brewers had any chance you’re in the championship game you’re down one run and there’s no belief.

Historical Gamer @historicalgamer.bsky.social · 1d

It’s a broken system and I think fans are increasingly losing faith in it at game two yesterday. I heard multiple conversations where people were begging for a salary cap and hoping the Dodgers were gonna just crush everybody this year to make that more likely because no one had any faith

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Historical Gamer @historicalgamer.bsky.social · 1d

After the 1st that place was quieter than many regular season games.

Historical Gamer @historicalgamer.bsky.social · 1d

If the hope is praying they have 4 bad games in the next 6... what's the point of even playing the games.

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Historical Gamer @historicalgamer.bsky.social · 1d

Eliminate arbitration, pay young players more, and stars less. I could see a neutral scenario where that wins owners a lot of goodwill, without them having to give up a ton of political capital and probably wins them a considerable amount of the players union.

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Historical Gamer @historicalgamer.bsky.social · 1d

The MLB already pays like 45% or something like that into revenue sharing, sure some owners pocket that money but its not THAT far removed from the players. I think a big part of helping the players in this system would be eliminating the arbitration system for something better for young players.

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Historical Gamer @historicalgamer.bsky.social · 1d

My mood as I blast 2011 walk up music on my way to my first playoff game since 2018

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Historical Gamer @historicalgamer.bsky.social · 2d

Turang and Yelich have both looked lost at the plate this post season. Yelich had a good game 2, but his swings have looked non-competitive for the most part and Turang has had like 2 good ABs.

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Historical Gamer @historicalgamer.bsky.social · 2d

The thing about refusing to chase is you will never know if you were wrong, and can always claim you were right.

The problem with chasing is you know when your wrong, its a phycology that always favors the meek with righteousness.

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