So.. my buddy and I decided to go pick up scalped tickets. Got in for 20 bucks.

Just then our friend Erin called, said they had extra tickets in 124 row 6. So we got into row 6. It’ was great… but it gets better. Half way through the game, she gets a call and we go to the press box. This is where I meet, Steve Czaben (He has sweaty shoulder), Trenni (I managed to not be tooo retarded) and Drew Olsen.

Since I had great tickets, the Cub Fans aruond me (Minus a dude who walked down) were very knowledgeable. They didn’t mock (Cept one in a broom). Ended up at a bar, and meet Aaron and Lisa Cub Fan. Pretty cool people.

So to sum up.. I had a great time minus the Brewer loss. And Cub fans aren’t all goblins. Just the majority of them.

Two thoughts come to mind, involving recent Brewer history such as 2001 (when kirbir was thinking about going to high school):

Sweep suits became part of Milwaukee baseball lore in June 2001, when the Brewers took three in a row at Wrigley Field, improved their record to 38-34 and pulled on their garish threads in a show of team unity. They went on to lose 60 of their final 90 games, which many observers felt was punishment from the baseball gods.

The other is in 2004, when we were 4 games over .500 at the all-star break...

but went 22-53 afterward, the worst second-half collapse in baseball history for a team that was over .500 at the midway point.

Despite the recent hallucination I had that we just lost 4 games to the Cubs at home, I still think we’re a playoff team, and possible contenders for the NL Central crown. I think a lot will depend, though, on how the team responds at tomorrow night’s game at Atlanta. Ryan Braun, your teams needs you again…

The Cubs are still well below .500 on the road and have a significantly worse record than us over the last half of the season. This series was only really important media-wise, it’s no different than four random days when we lost and the Cubs managed to beat some other team. We still gained a lot of ground in July.

Unless you expect Sabathia and Sheets to lose the majority of their starts over the rest of the season (or our offense to continue to hit 0.050 with RISP), I still don’t see how we don’t win the NL Central.

I can’t imagine a real Brewers fan that has 100% faith in Ned Yost after this series. I love the guy and think he’s the manager that takes us to the playoffs, but he just absolutely sucked it up this series. I just don’t see a lot of positives coming out of this series with Chicago—hell, our expectations went from four game sweep to take three of two to just win one game to don’t look foolish. I’m sure some fire Yost guys will come out, because after going 7-0, they went 1-6 at home, and have lost five straight.

... in a season where he authorized the payroll to hit $90 million and put the team on the verge of going into the read for the fiscal year (his quote was the team might break even if they make the Series). Does he end up thinking that if the current regime can’t get him to the playoffs under these circumstances (a healthy Ben Sheets, overall lack of injuries except Gallardo, a second ace starter, free agent signings as requested by Melvin), that maybe he’s got the wrong guys calling the shots in the GM’s office and the dugout?

It’s possible, though I sort of doubt it. Attanasio seems pretty level-headed, but at some point his patience has to run out if there are no playoff appearances.

I tried to envision the crew tearing apart their competition during the last two months of the season but couldn’t remember if they had done so in the past. BP has them with only three Augusts or Septembers with winning records, ugh, and a .437 and .456 winning percentage respectively. To top it off, 17 of 27 games in August are on the road and Nedly’s road record is a stellar 187 and 298 (.385) since 2003. Yikes. Couldn’t seem to break the road record on a monthly basis. The players may have changed, but it is the same guy driving the boat.