With only five games remaining in the regular season and trailing the Cubs by five games in the division, the odds of the Milwaukee Brewers winning the NL Central are slim.
Very slim.
However, the Brewers are only three games out of the second Wild Card spot and are one game into their last home stand of the season. One would think with your team in the tight playoff race and playing at home, you’d be able to fill up your home field with no problems at all.
Apparently, Brewer fans think differently.
Last night’s recorded attendance at Miller Park (capacity 41,900) was 30,079. The fact that Brewers fans are not showing up when their team still has a legitimate shot at making the playoffs is pure comedy to me. These were the same Brewers fans that talked all that shit in June and July about the Cubs being overrated and this was “their year.”
After the Cubs symbolically crushed the Brewers spirit by sweeping them a week ago, fans have appeared to cash the season in. It’s gotten so bad that Brewer players themselves had to buy tickets to hand out to the fans in an attempt to fill the seats.
Ryan Braun, Corey Knebel and Hernan Perez purchased 7,500 tickets as a way of saying thank you to fans. https://t.co/Bk3ZEadxqn
— SI MLB (@si_mlb) September 27, 2017
I know what you’re thinking — “But wait. It says players bought the tickets as a way to say thank you to the fans.”
I call bullshit.
Even Brewers players know that if they didn’t take it upon themselves to buy 7500 tickets, their fans wouldn’t show up. I’m glad it took three of your own players to purchase tickets and literally hand them to you for free to get you to go to a game with playoff implications.
That’s embarrassing Milwaukee.
I’m curious to see what the attendance looks like tonight.
