The month of September has arrived, and the following National League teams have the best chance of making the playoffs:

Chicago Cubs
Milwaukee Brewers
Los Angeles Dodgers
Philadelphia Phillies
New York Mets

So what's going to happen here? Cubs in first place, Brewers wild card? If so, can the Cubs take the Dodgers in the first round of the playoffs, and can the Brewers take the Mets or Phillies in the first round? Could we even witness the Brewers and Cubs playing each other in the National League Championship Series?! I'm getting keyed up just thinking about it. The upstart small market Brewers snatching a World Series away from their rivals in the centennial year of 2008! Just picture it!

What about Arizona?

haha keep dreaming. The brewers aren't beating the cubs

The upstart small market Brewers snatching a World Series away from their rivals in the centennial year of 2008! Just picture it!

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As much as I love the Brewers, and as much as I would love to see them go to the series, I don't really think it would happen. Would I love it? You bet, but I just don't see it. But that could be my anger over the last 4 nights talking.

What about Arizona?

Forgot about them. I personally see LA taking first place, but either way the Wild Card is not going to come from the West this year.

As much as I love the Brewers, and as much as I would love to see them go to the series, I don't really think it would happen. Would I love it? You bet, but I just don't see it. But that could be my anger over the last 4 nights talking.

You never what can happen in the playoffs. If the Brewers get on a hot streak going in, it's totally possible. If we make the wild card, we'll play either the Phillies or Mets, both teams the Brewers can beat. Making it past the Phillies or Mets would mean we would meet the Cubs or Dodgers in the NLCS. We could beat the Dodgers, and, yes, we could beat the Cubs.

Despite the sub-par play of September so far, the Brewers are serious playoff contenders. And remember, the Cubs are on a slide right now also.

Wow, after tonight's game I'm kind of wondering about us(Milwaukee). Yes, we finally one, but it was a tough battle. And I have never heard the Milwaukee fans boo a player to the extent they did Gagne tonight. I was a little embarrassed, matter of fact. They were booing him before he even stepped on the mound. Yes, then first pitch gave up the HR that tied the game, followed by a quick double, the atmosphere in Miller Park was just short of hostile. I thought we were a little more supportive here for all of our Brewers, kind of disappointing.

If the Cubs continue to slide, we could just get lucky...you never know, September has only just begun.

The month of September has arrived, and the following National League teams have the best chance of making the playoffs:

Chicago Cubs
Milwaukee Brewers
Los Angeles Dodgers
Philadelphia Phillies
New York Mets

So what's going to happen here? Cubs in first place, Brewers wild card? If so, can the Cubs take the Dodgers in the first round of the playoffs, and can the Brewers take the Mets or Phillies in the first round? Could we even witness the Brewers and Cubs playing each other in the National League Championship Series?! I'm getting keyed up just thinking about it. The upstart small market Brewers snatching a World Series away from their rivals in the centennial year of 2008! Just picture it!

Milw, if we have to be embroiled in a tight race (instead of a cake walk), I think it's great we're in it with you guys. How nice it is going to be to see the Cubs-Brewers rivalry get some attention usually reserved for Cubs-Cards. That this is shaping up to be an "all in the neighborhood" struggle makes it even better.

Three cheers for the Brewers great season and for the great city of Milwaukee and its support in it and the fun you are having. It couldn't happen to a finer place. And without the success of small market teams, MLB would lose all its appeal. We need more Brewer like success stories.

Now that the nicities are asside, I still hope the Cubs will beat crap out of the Brew Crew on the road to our 1st world championship in 100 years...and I'm sure you wouldn't expect me or want me to see it any other way. Such are the nature of a good rivalry.

Now you realize that now

I don't see the NL being a murky picture at all. The NL Central and wild card stops will be won respectively by the Cubs/Brewers or Brewers/Cubs. The Phils are in. And whoever wins the NL West has about as much right to be in the NLDS as I do (MLB did not need 2 leagues, each with three divisions and a wild card slot)

Wow, after tonight's game I'm kind of wondering about us(Milwaukee). Yes, we finally one, but it was a tough battle. And I have never heard the Milwaukee fans boo a player to the extent they did Gagne tonight. I was a little embarrassed, matter of fact. They were booing him before he even stepped on the mound. Yes, then first pitch gave up the HR that tied the game, followed by a quick double, the atmosphere in Miller Park was just short of hostile. I thought we were a little more supportive here for all of our Brewers, kind of disappointing.

If the Cubs continue to slide, we could just get lucky...you never know, September has only just begun.

Gag-me deserves the boo's. He is turning into the next Turn-blow. I think people in MKE just aren't used to having to boo anyone since the whole team has been laughable for the past 26 years. Now that we are contenders, we have higher expectations and take situations like the ones he is presented with a lot more seriously. Earlier in the year it was Mota that seemed to be the opposing teams ace in the hole whenever he was called up...but he has turned his stuff around considerably. The only person that can stop the fans from booing Gagne is Gagne.

Aside from the currently cold bats, the biggest thorn in the Brewers side right now is their setup position. Starters have been solid, CC is just down right unreal, Sheets as usuall doesn't get any run support, Busch (aside from his last game with the Mets) and Manny have been getting better with each outing, and Suppan is turning his stuff up in the late going. Riske, Gagne, Shouse, etc...you just feel a certain amount of discomfort when they come into close games (thats close as in "its a close game", not as in "comming in to close the game") because you never know which side of them you will see.

Alas, things are still tight in the race...which makes it fun to watch...but just think what could have been had the BrewCrew taken advantage of this unreal skid by the Cubs. Certainly things are going to turn around for both teams, hopefully more so for the Crew. I just hope we don't turn the last series of the year into another homestand for the Cubs at MP...I think that series is going to have major implications.

Its almost hard to believe that finally, after a quarter century, we will be dissapointed if the Brewers don't make the playoffs. I just have a gut feeling the Phils and/or Mets are going to sneek up on us though and ruin everything.

Mets/Phillies/Cubs ---> :bash: <---Brewers

I am worried about the Phillies/Mets as well.

As far as Gagne, he DOES deserve to be booed. He is downright terrible. I don't care what he has done in the past, because hes not doing it now. I don't care how much he cost us, we are makinga run for the playoffs and sending out top prospects to assure we get there. Playing a terrible and overpaid player no longer is a factor when your throwing everyhting out the window to get there this year.

Were I there, I would have booed him before he got on the mound, when he let the homer go, when he gave up the double, and when he walked off. Gagne is terrible, and we should just bite the bullet, leave him on the bench and rely on someone else.

I gave him a longer leash than most, and after a while I had to join the bandwagon. If ANYONE else gave up that homerun, ya, it would suck, but it would be forgivable. When Gagne comes in, you are just wondering how badly in the hole the Brewers will be after hes done, because giving up homeruns for him is now almost a guarantee.

Worst 10 million dollars the brewers ever spent i have nothing personal against Gagne im sure he wants to live up to the contract and his prior sucess but he is god awful. Like i told my dad last brewers game we were at i hope he saves his 10 mill because it was truely a gift, he will never get anywhere close to that total the rest of his career. Wow

I don't know how anyone could conceivably think that the brewers are going to make the playoffs this year or any years. 3 days til they complete their blowing of another playoff berth.

The playoffs have already been set from what i see. The phillies against the cubs and the mets against the dodgers, with arizona having a chance.

The only good thing that might come of this is a new manager.

cubs lost to the cards in the 9th. the brewers lost to the reds in the 11th.

at this rate, maybe neither team will make the playoffs :ohno:

Uh oh...the Brewers just pulled one out....C'mon Cubs better get your $hit together....fast!!

yay!!!! cubs win, brewers lose!

the cubs magic number is now down to 11. with 16 games remaining for the cubs, if they can manage to just play .500 baseball for the remainder of the season, and as long as the brewers can find a way to lose just 3 of their remaining games, the cubs will take the division!

yay!!!! cubs win, brewers lose!



Is this what you really want?

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I don't know why Cubs fans are worried about the Brewers. I have been a Brewers fan too long to think that they'll get out of this funk.

You can tell in their body language that they're already beat. The question is will they be in third or fourth in the NL central this year. If the cubs are going to pull a collapse it will be because of the Astros not the brewers but it looks like the cubs have fixed their problem and have won their second in a row.

The Brewers are pressing and trying to hard and Prince can't explode and save them because that would risk suspension after he hit a homer and might be getting a hot bat. We'll see tonight maybe the brewers can turn it around with a lefty on the mound to help neutralize utley and howard but I will be surprised if the brewers win 5 games the rest of the year.

They should win at least one in the final homestand since i haven't been to a brewers game they lost since the 2006 season.

I don't know why Cubs fans are worried about the Brewers.

it's september, and the cubs are somehow doing ok. cubs fans are worried about absolutely everything in the universe right now form acid rain, to al queda, to the new particle accelerator at CERN, to the milwaukee brewers.

the memory of 1969 still lives strong in the psyche of cubs fandom. in these unfamiliar situations, cubs fans are worried about everything, because worrying is the only thing we know how to do. we've been properly conditioned by a century of futility.

I understand that completely (the cubs have all the bad luck and strange turn of events), I guess my point is the Astros should be more worrisome for the Cubs at this juncture than the Brewers.

Although with all these rainouts maybe the brewers can regroup. I'd love to see a cubs-brewers NLCS I just can't see the Brewers in the playoffs anymore they look real bad and they're looking like a beaten team.

Yeah, they seem to have just run out of steam. The enthusiasm just isn't there...a risidual effect of lossing so many games, or the cause for the losses? Hopefully it is just the tail end of a bad funk that they can shake out of and make their run. It's not as though they have really had any detrimental injuries to weaken them...all the talent is still there...they just need to wake up. I am foolishly optomistic that they will make the playoffs. They had too good a year to let it slip away now, but if history is any indicator of whats to come, they will be carving pumpkins in October instead of bats.

GO TWINS


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The Brewers are Done! Get used to it! The Cubs must win, no excuses!

Damn...a no-hitter by big Z.....here I go get U-verse so I can pick up both Comcast Chicago as well as WGN and this game was on neither..:ohno:

^ the game was on WGN, I watched it myself and it was amazing, the first cubs no hitter of my life!

^^But it was just on in Chicago because when the game started and it wasn't on I wondered why (the paper here said it would be on WGN too) then I checked the Cubs' board and people were bitching about not being able to see it and I realized I was screwed.

There's always next year ...

I was at Zambrano's No-Hitter is was amazing. I am a Brewers fan and we had no chance with Ned Yost as manager, now that he's fired the Brewers might have a 5 or 10% chance of making the playoffs.

wow, what a miracle rally by the cubs against the brewers yesterday! that might have been the best comeback victory by the cubs all season.

cubs magic number is now down to 2. if the cubs win today and the brewers lose tonight, cubs will clinch the NL central!

^ While I appreciate your love of the Daley Center and the Eagleton Courthouse Steely, I really really really hope you don't clinch it today against us.

Plus, I despise the Cubs with every fiber of my being :)

(damn, it's been forever since I've posted on here!)

^ uhhhhh, i certainly know and love the daley center, but eagleton courthouse? you'll have to refresh my memory.


anyway, is it weird for any of you brewers fans to be rooting for the cubs right now since we're playing the mets who are challenging the brewers for the wild card? i know for the weekend series coming up you'll all be anti-cubs again, but in the meantime, milwaukee has to be rooting for the cubs at the moment, which is strange because the starter of this thread probably didn't envision this scenario.

Updates please folks... any chance for the Brewers on the wildcard thing still?

Well both the Mets and Brewers won today, so no movement in the standings. Mets still lead by 1 game.

But man was the win tonight with Fielder's walkoff homerun sorely needed. Man was that a good game.

Well, folks, these Brewers certainly know how to bring it down to the wire. I can't believe we're still in contention. If we sweep the Pirates, and hold our own against the Cubs at home, we've got a good of chance of making the playoffs, depending on what the Mets do.

Here we have probably the most important five games played by the Milwaukee Brewers since I was in kindergarten. I'd rather we'd be up rather than down, but it's going to be a nailbiter this week.

Go to the Brew Crew :)

last night was the loudest i have ever screamed at a game.

I still can't believe Braun hit that game winning grand salami. And tonight was such a huge win. One game up on the Mets. Let's do this!

WOOOOOOO HOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!GO BREWERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ALL THE WAY BABY!!!!!!!!!!!!

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YESSSSSSS


GO BREWERS!!!!!

Well I've never been happier to be wrong. The Brewers are in the playoffs. :cheers:

Go Brewers go!

The Brewers will face the Phills or the Cubbies 1st ?

GO BREWERS. :banana: :cucumber: :pepper: :carrot:

They will face the phillies first.

First up we've got a best of five game series agains the Phillies. The Phils have home field advantage, and the Brewers went 1-5 against them in the regular season. We're short one of our aces and our pitching staff is running ragged after a long season. So the Crew definitely has its work cut for them. But remember ... in October, anything can happen!

GO BREWERS!

i don't think Philly has seen Sabathia or Gallardo yet this season, which is an advantage. Bush/Sheets/Parra/Suppan were the starters for that 4-game sweep.

All the pressure is going to be on the Phillies at home...they must win at least one of the games. Plus, the Brewers want revenge for that 4-game sweep that almost took them out of playoff contention.

Should be an exciting series for sure.

True, the Brewers can play like they've got nothing to lose. All the pressure will be on the Phillies going in. Since we've got some problems in the starting rotation, it will be up to the Brewers' bats to win games agains the Phils .. and we've got some young hitters that are hungry to make some noise in the post-season. Balanced by some vets that have been through the post-season before.

We'll be going into this series as the underdogs, no doubt about it. But October is all about underdogs pulling out surprising wins.

GO BREWERS!!!!