Home Run Derby

Back on May 9, the Milwaukee Brewers were the hottest thing in baseball. 

They had a wicked 24-10 Win-Loss record (.706), a six game win streak, and their biggest division lead ever. 

They had lost only one of twelve series and were staking their claim to run away and hide with the otherwise piss-poor National League Central. 

The world was their urinal. 

And not just because Miller Park’s toilets were emptying into a nearby river back in March. 

A new Brewer fansite was unveiled, Pee Your Pants for the Brewers, which was gearing up long-suffering Brewer fans to pledge to empty their bladders the day (perhaps even the exact moment) the Brewers punched their ticket to the 2007 playoffs.  It’s been 24 long seasons since the Brewers were in the 1982 World Series.

Well since then … the Brewers have shat the bed.  Let’s take a look at the numbers.

Nothing’s been quite the same since that website came out … I don’t really want to blame the Potential Pants Peers for this, but why not?  Is it coincidence that the Brewers have gone 5 and 14 and lost six consecutive series since PYPFTB had its coming out party (via Deadspin) on May 9? 

Karma’s a bitch, ain’t it?

Maybe the Brewers are afraid of what could happen if they clinch at home, which could send 40,000 fully beer-bladdered fans to simultaneously relieve themselves in the stands … It would make Miller Park smell like Wrigley Field after a double header in late August. 

Sure, sure … the fact that the Brewers haven’t played any of their NL Central bitches lately (last game: May 6 vs PIT) probably has something to do with it.  The Brew Crew is 17-9 vs their own crappy divison and only 12-15 outside of it.  And that includes three wins against the craptastic Washington Nationals. 

Fortunately for the Brewers, the rest of the NL Central seems to only be able to win games when playing other teams within the division.  So the Brew Crew still has a 5.5 game lead, which could be an insurmountable cushion in their crappy division.  Even with over two-thirds of the season left to play.

But if and when they make the playoffs, it might be a short trip … the rest of the NL seems to have their number.

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