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For Grok's answer, if you need it, go here. Snippet: "Fans have adopted this trope to rationalize the Brewers' clutch performances, such as error-prone opponents, timely hits, and come-from-behind victories that defy statistical expectations. For instance, after a string of fortunate plays in late July, social media buzzed with claims that Uecker's spirit was 'guiding these balls over fences … under gloves… past bats… on barrels,' turning mishaps into miracles under the hashtag #UeckMagic. Similarly, during a dramatic walk-off win against the Mets on August 10, where the Brewers erased a 5-0 deficit, users speculated that Uecker was 'pulling the strings' from heaven, likening the game to a real-life angelic intervention...."
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The Brew Crew is at 73-44, best record in both the National League and in MLB. I'd like to think that Bob Uecker is giving them a hand...
“Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball, the rules, and reality of the game." Jacques Barzun
"If something cannot go on forever, it will stop." - Stein's Law
Harry Caray died in 1998. The Cubs made the playoffs that year, although finishing 2bd in the division.
Although tremendously popular with the fans, Harry was not especially popular with the players, since he had no hesitation in criticizing what he saw as poor play.
This was especially true in St. Louis, where he worked for 25 years (1944-69). To me he'll always be the voice of the Cardinals, as he was when I was growing up.
I've been following the Brewers my whole life and history suggests it will end in tears, as it always does. But I will say this - as the great Branch Rickey observed, luck is the residue of design. And while Cubs fans everywhere are screaming about how lucky the Brewers have been this season, what I see is a team that is designed to compete every day. The Brewers are athletic, play exceptional defense and they make the opposing pitchers work. It's an exciting brand of baseball and I am enjoying every moment.
"The Brew Crew is at 73-44, best record in both the National League and in MLB."
Not just the best, but 5 games ahead of the next best.
https://www.espn.com/mlb/standings/_/group/overall
“The one constant through all the years, Ray, has been baseball. America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It has been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt and erased again. But baseball has marked the time.” James Earl Jones in “Field of Dreams.”
I wouldn’t discount the emotion leading to better performance. The Astros won their first World Series after Hurricane Harvey devastated Houston. Spiritually, the players and the fans rallied around “Houston Strong”, and it instilled a feeling of not giving up. If you don’t think such feelings don’t add a little pop to the bat, then you haven’t played the game.
Who would ever think baseball could be exciting! So fun to watch the fantastic plays and the celebrations when they win.
They have a pitcher that looks like he doesn't even shave yet and outfielders that can throw the ball from the back wall to home plate for an out.
Is it October already?
Travelling across America one summer, my then girlfriend and I found ourselves in a small town park in Oklahoma where we engaged in a vigorous round of sodomy right there on the darkened little league field. She always referred to that experience as Anal in the Outfield
The Brewers have been terrific so far. Enjoy. Unfortunately, once the playoffs come around, so do the real Dodgers.
I went with friends last Thursday night to see the Braves against the Marlins. The pitch clock and other rules meant to strip the game's "slow pace of play", is changing the game. I predict we are going to see more win streaks, and losing streaks, hitting streaks and hitting slumps, and more multiple run innings. It's all about getting on and off the newfound rhythm of the game.
Listening to Ernie Harwell and Paul Carey from Detroit in the 80s, on summer nights trying to binary-code an assembler into a VIC-20, was always pleasant but I seldom knew who was playing. It's just the sound and rhythm. Nothing happening is a big part of it. I"m sure TV has ruined everything by now.
peaking early
Very little of what goes on among human beings, very little of what goes on in so limited an activity as a game, is merely conventional (done solely for convenience). In baseball, it is merely conventional for the home team to take the field first or for an umpire to stand behind the catcher rather than behind the pitcher (which might be safer). In the former instance it is convenient to have such a matter routinely settled one way or the other; in the latter instance it must have been found more convenient for the task at hand, e.g., it permits greater accuracy in calling pitches, and positions an official so that he is on top of plays at home plate and faces him so that his line of sight crosses those of the other umpires. More or less analogous advantages will recommend, say, the Gerber convention in bridge. But it can seem that really all the rules of a game, each act it consists of, is conventional. There is no necessity in permitting three strikes instead of two or four; in dealing thirteen cards rather than twelve or fifteen. — What would one have in mind here? That two or four are just as good? Meaning what? That it would not alter the essence of the game to have it so? But from what position is this supposed to be claimed? By someone who does or does not know what "the essence of the game" is? — e.g., that it contains passages which are duels between pitcher and batter, that "getting a hit", "drawing a walk", and "striking a batter out" must have certain ranges of difficulty. It is such matters that the "convention" of permitting three strikes is in service of. So a justification for saying that a different practice is "just as good" or "better" is that it is found just as good or better (by those who know and care about the activity). But is the whole game in service of anything? I think one may say: It is in service of the human capacity, or necessity, for play; because what can be played, and what play can be watched with that avidity, while not determinable a priori, is contingent upon the given capacities for human play, and for avidity. (It should not be surprising that what is necessary is contingent upon something. Necessaries are means.) It is perhaps not derivable from the measurements of a baseball diamond and of the average velocities of batted baseballs and of the average times human beings can run various short distances, that 90 feet is the best distance for setting up an essential recurrent crisis in the structure of a baseball game, e.g., at which the run and the throw to first take long enough to be followed lucidly, and are often completed within a familiar split second of one another; but seeing what happens at just these distances will sometimes strike one as a discovery of the a priori. But also of the utterly contingent. There is no necessity that human capacities should train to just these proportions; but just these proportions reveal the limits of those capacities. Without those limits, we would not have known the possibilities. To think of a human activity as governed throughout by mere conventions, or as having conventions which may as well be changed as not, depending upon some individual or other's taste or decision, is to think of a set of conventions as tyrannical. It is worth saying that conventions can be changed because it is essential to a convention that it be in service of some project, and you do not know a priori which set of procedures is better than others for that project. That is, it is internal to a convention that it be open to change in convention, in the convening of those subject to it, in whose behavior it lives.
Stanley Cavell, The Claim of Reason
Mr. D said...
And while Cubs fans everywhere are screaming about how lucky the Brewers have been this season, what I see is a team that is designed to compete every day. The Brewers are athletic, play exceptional defense and they make the opposing pitchers work. It's an exciting brand of baseball and I am enjoying every moment."
I'm a Cubs fan and listen to Chicago sports radio very day, and Cubs fans don't by and large think the Brewers are lucky.
The Brewers are built to compete every day, but that gets diminished in the playoffs, as teams don't play every day as they do in the regular season. The Brewers biggest problem is lack of slug.
Harry Caray died in 1998. The Cubs made the playoffs that year...
Hmmm...Maybe the Aztecs were on to something.
Maybe the Aztecs were on to something
Careful Brewers fans or you’ll end up like these Red Sox fans in ‘04
The Brewers are 9 and 1 in the last ten games.
You couldn't have waited one more day for this post?
"Original Mike said...
The Brewers are 9 and 1 in the last ten games.
You couldn't have waited one more day for this post?"
Why?
Isaac Collins, Rookie of the [Year], played college baseball for the Creighton Bluejays.
“It's an exciting brand of baseball and I am enjoying every moment.“
THAT is THE spirit!
Curious George said:
I'm a Cubs fan and listen to Chicago sports radio very day, and Cubs fans don't by and large think the Brewers are lucky.
The Brewers are built to compete every day, but that gets diminished in the playoffs, as teams don't play every day as they do in the regular season. The Brewers biggest problem is lack of slug.
I must hear from different fans, but fair enough. On your second observation, I'm not convinced it will diminish; the Mets are struggling now but they did not play poorly in this series; the Brewers were simply better.
Baseball is the only sport were listening to it on a radio with a good announcing team is almost as good as watching it. Vin Scully was always my fav.
I think its because the action in a MLB game is repetititve and easily visualized. A strike and a ball all look the same. Or outs like hitting a pop up fly ball or high to deep center field are the same. There aren't many "OMG, how did he do that".
OTOH, Basketball needs to be seen, since most of the pleasure is in the way the players play defense or make the basket. Telling me that MJ blew by a player and dunked it, is not the same as watching it. Some BB announcers like Chick Hearn or that guy in Boston (Most?) can add something, but most don't.
I often go on Youtube to listen to that guy say "Bird stole the ball" or "That thug lambier, that vicious blahblah".
"He missed the tag, he missed the tag"
I think better athletes are playing MLB. We went through a period where the best ones were choosing the NBA/NFL/etc. over MLB. I think they've realized you can have a much longer career in MLB.
Meade:
I can assure you that no Cornhusker baseballer has ever been Rookie of the Year.
We made the NCAA tournament this year. We have a new coach from the SEC and play in the CWS ballpark. I go to 2 or 3 games per year. Things are looking up for Bluejay Baseball.
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