I hate the St. Louis Cardinals. I was 1 year old in 1982 when the Cardinals beat the Brewers in the World Series. So I obviously don't remember those days nor am I bitter because of it. Yes I realize that they got in the way of our chance to win the World Series and that in the last 30 years we are one of 5 teams (Chicago Cubs, Montreal Expos/Washington Nationals, Pittsburgh Pirates and Seattle Mariners) to not even APPEAR in a World Series. So I get it. We're a losing franchise. I haven't experienced a whole lot of winning in my lifetime. So it goes being a Brewers fan. But my hatred for the Cardinals stems from the last few years of Tony LaRussa and Albert Pujols and all of the nonsense that they brought to the diamond. It's been well documented everywhere so I'm not going to get into it, but I have a big disregard for them as baseball people. But both of them are now off this team and I still have a problem. I didn't know why I'm still mad until I figured out that I am jealous. The St. Louis Cardinals have won 11 World Series Championships and 18 National League Pennants. Plus it seems like every year they are in competition at least until the last month of the season and never seem to finish near the bottom of the division. Meanwhile here in Milwaukee we throw a god damn parade when we win the NL Wild Card in 2008 and win 1 post season game. Pathetic. Now I love my Brewers and will never jump ship on them (even in years like 2012 when they have performed well under expectations) but I would like to see just 1 World Series Championship before I die. St. Louis meanwhile has won 2 in the last 5 years. Must be nice. Fuck that team. Oh yeah, and to make matters worse they celebrated the 1982 team (30 year reunion) during this series and rubbed it in our faces one more time. And on top of that the 2012 Cardinals swept the 2012 Milwaukee Brewers this weekend. Hell of a lot of fun this year is.
I pretty much summed it up when I did the write-up at work (which you can read below) but what the hell is with this team? How do they get swept by St. Louis and then sweep the 1st place Cincinnati Reds? Is this the most inconsistent team of all time? Or are they so inconsistent that they are consistent? I just hurt my brain. It's Sunday. Supposed to be a day of rest and instead I'm sitting here working hard to provide you with some very biased opinions on the 2012 Milwaukee Brewers. Though I can't really call it hard work when I'm sitting around without a shirt on drinking rum. I've almost run out of emotion and things to say this year but I'm sure I can still squeeze out a little tears with these onions. It's come to the point where I can't enjoy a sweep over the 1st place team because I get angry thinking about where this type of performance has been all season long. They played nearly flawless baseball against Cincinnati. They pitched well, played error free, came through with clutch and timely hitting and had bullpen pitchers not blow a game for a change. Manager Ron Roenicke even did a hell of a job and allowed Jim Henderson to breath a little life into the closer's role and he responded by nailing down a 3-1 and 3-2 victory. The offense even showed that they hadn't quit yet as they rallied from behind to grab game 3 and were looking like the team that won the NL Central last year. Of course it was just 3 games and they can't put together a nice little 2 week stretch when they go 10 for 12 or something like that. Nope. Not this team. They'll go ahead and lose the next series after this or get swept. Some shit like that. Uh. I got more angry that I had hoped for. Time to go do something positive, like refill my drink. Mmm Mmm Good. Fuck Campbell's. They're wrong. Soup doesn't deserve that slogan, rum does. I love rum.
Friday August 3 - Sunday August 5. Milwaukee Brewers vs St. Louis Cardinals at Busch Stadium. Games 105 - 107 of 162. I'd be lying to you if I said I cared about this series. I've pretty much given up on this year. Sure, there's still some things to watch and look forward to, but for the most part I've got better things to do. This weekend was all about Raging for Timmy. To be honest with you, my whole life is raging for Timmy now. Maybe that's why I haven't shown as much interest. I figured out (unfortunatley through a tragic event) that family, friends and the pursuit of goals and harmony are more important than a stupid baseball team. I'd rather write or play guitar than waste 3 hours a day on this crap. I may sound like a front runner or fair weather because they aren't winning right now, but I focused more energy on other things last year when they were tearing it up en route to 96 wins. So there. It's all about priorities man. And I have to set mine in order before I leave this place, which if I'm not careful, will be too soon. So before I go, I have some things to accomplish. So when it comes to the Brewers, I care, just not that much. Cardinals 9, Brewers 3. Cardinals 6, Brewers 1. Cardinals 3, Brewers 0.
Monday August 6 - Wednesday August 8. Milwaukee Brewers vs Cincinnati Reds at Miller Park. Games 108 - 110 of 162. I don't understand this team. They were just awful this weekend against St. Louis but then come out and play nearly flawless baseball against the 1st place Cincinnati Reds. What gives man? Why can't be more consistent? That has been the linchpin this season that has stopped us from being competitive. With a very winnable series against Houston coming up, this team can get closer to .500. That's all I really care about now. Just finish with a respectable record. Well, I also care about seeing how guys like Jean Seguara and Michael Fiers do. Fiers was outstanding and if he can keep this up, we're looking so much better for next year. Gomez is playing well, Ramirez is scalding the ball and Weeks is back to form. There is still a lot to look forward to in 2012 and I will really be interested to see which minor leaguers get called up in September. So let's just keep on winning some games and at least make this thing fun. Winning is always fun, even when you are still 8 games under .500. Cincinnati is in 1st for a reason. It was nice to stick it to them. And in the words of the fat, obnoxious, drunk fan in Angels in the Outfield - GO BACK TO CINCINNATI!! Brewers 6, Reds 3. Brewers 3, Reds 1. Brewers 3, Reds 2.
Looking at the August schedule we should have been rolling out like gangsters on a driveby, capping bitches left and right with our gats and settling our bidness out in da streets. I don't know what I was doing there. I have a college degree. I grew up on 56th and Locust but I'm hardly from the streets. The closest I am to being gangster is that I once cowered in a stairwell while a "riot" went on at the Mayfair Mall movie theater when screenings of Barbershop sold out. I could have shouted and blared rap music from my car but instead I joined all of the other white people and locked myself inside an inaccessible place. Yeah, I'm from the streets alright. The mean streets of Wauwatosa. Look out for us. We'll inform the Neighborhood Watch Committee if you don't clean up after your dog when it defecates on our lawns. That is not helping out the community and working together to beautify the area in which we reside. Next up we got a series against the Houston Astros and another against the Colorado Rockies, both on the road. The road has never been kind to us and I know this one will be no different, even if Houston and Colorado are 2 of the worst teams in the National League. You already know the results, but tune into this blog in the next few days to read my reaction. You don't want to miss this shit.
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