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Ugh, I'm glad I turned it off when I did. I don't think A-Rod has picked the Brewers to win a game this postseason yet. And Ortiz...just dont get me started with him.

Looking back at the game yesterday, what kind of stikes me is how it was not our pitching that won that game, but our hitting. If you told me we'd give up 5 runs to the Dodgers with Kershaw on the mound, I'd say that was probably a Dodger win. It was our ability to chase Kershaw, and get some key insurance runs, that gave us the cushion we needed to allow our bullpen to falter a bit there.

mlb.com has a great little article called "Actually, the Brewers are the favorites in this NLCS". It seems like ESPN and Fox Sports are making a concerted effort to cast Milwaukee as a lucky, upstart small market team that is just waiting to be blasted away by a playoff experienced big market team. A little snippet from the article:

"To recap: The team with the league's best record, with the league's best home-field advantage, with the best player on the field riding a historic hot streak ... still gets to come in feeling that it's the underdog because of the discourse. "

I'm honestly tired of the narrative that the Brewers are just lucky to be here. They finished with the best record in the NL, have formidable players. They belong in this NLCS, and they certainly can win this series no matter if the Dodgers "play like crap" or not.
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Don't mind me. I'm just here for the contest.