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ESPN has no faith in the Brewers, apparently

  • September 3, 2024


Here's the assessment as of a few days ago https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/41014516/mlb-2024-power-rankings-week-22-dodgers-yankees-phillies-diamondbacks-royals:

"Milwaukee should work on lining up its pitching in September to be running at full capacity when the playoffs start. The Brewers have held a healthy lead in the NL Central for most of the season, and though the Cubs are surging a bit, the Brewers probably won't be challenged in the final month. It's doubtful they'll catch either the Dodgers or Phillies to earn a bye in the first round, but if they get close enough to make it interesting, forget about lining up your rotation — go for it. Avoiding the first round would allow them to line up things. Milwaukee is sitting just fine heading into September."

I believe this was published when the Brewers had the same record as the Phillies. Can't get much closer than that.

25 comments

  4. Disney Sports doesn’t like the Brewers because they’re in the ratings business and the Brewers are in the smallest media market in baseball. That’s the extent of it. Pay no mind to them.

  7. “If they get close enough to the Phillies” while we’ve pretty much been tied or close enough to them for the past week.

  8. the Brewers are currently behind both of those teams, and they both have a tiebreaker on the Brewers and so it makes sense that the chances are less likely for the Brewers. Nothing dismissive is really being said unless you think ESPN isn’t being bullish enough on the Brewers’ chances.

    Other than that, they clearly think the brewers are in an otherwise great place and say so literally in that excerpt, saying they should go for it if they’re in position to potentially snag one of the top two seeds

  9. Jesse Rogers is a Chicago native and huge Cubs homer. You can’t expect fair coverage from him.

  10. Oh y’all still watch ESPN?? Nah fam that ain’t it.

    ESPN has had some of the worst baseball coverage since 2005/2006 and they’ve always had a small market blind spot.

  11. ESPN judging anything sports is the equivalent of the head chef at McDonalds deciding which restaurant gets the next Michelin star

  12. So what .5 game behind the Phillies for the #2 seed? Although the Phillies own the tiebreaker so it’s more like 1.5 behind. Still not enough to be dismissive.

  15. Honestly, can this fanbase stop giving ESPN the time of day and just give them fewer clicks by ignoring these articles? Making posts like this and getting 100+ Brewers fans to click on the article is exactly what they want at the end of the day.

    CBS has them up to 3, even the NY Times (which, if you ever see their sports coverage, you know could not care less about any team from the Midwest) has them at 4 (if you think they should be higher at this point, given how unevenly they’ve played top teams so far this season, idk what to tell you). And at the end of the day, as others have pointed out, these are all meaningless.

    ESPN has been like this my entire adult life, I really don’t expect anything different from them.

  16. “if they get close enough to make it interesting”…uhh like within 1 game with a series yet to play at home against the Phillies 😂

  18. Is it as doubtful that the Cubs will erase a 10 game gap before the end of the month as the Brewers will close the current 0.5 game gap with the Phillies?

  21. I stopped reading ESPN when 90% of their links require a subscription to their site. There are enough other free sites out there that I can find out similar information as what ESPN is charging money for access

  22. “It’s doubtful the Brewers can catch the Dodgers or Phillies…”

    Umm we have 1 more loss than PHI and are 2 behind LAD soooooooo……

  23. I said it at the beginning of the season to my brother: brewers will sneak into the WS, led by a hot rookie, just like the Dbags and Corbin Carroll did last season. We’re trending in the right direction!

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