SPORTS LINE
The Green Bay Packers visit hell. It’s Brazil, twelve hundred miles down there, way under in South America (the game is on the 6th of September, (but good luck in finding it online). Why this wonder of ‘America’s Team,’ would choose to take its first game, a game that counts, down to a country that does not refer to the sport the Packers play at all as football (they call it the ‘gridiron pastime’ in their language…which happens to be Portuguese and not Spanish) is beyond belief. There are supposedly thirty million fans of NFL ‘gridiron pastime’ in that country, but what’s the truth? The country of Brazil has over a hundred million soccer fans. Those fans call soccer football, not what the USA refers to as football, and then think the world is in agreement about it.
Soccer, or what’s termed ‘football’ out in the rest of the world, is ten times as popular as the American sport. The Eagles are a pretty good team, although nobody knows about how they’ll do this coming year. The Packers should win if they don’t eat the food down there, drink the water down there, use the ‘bathrooms’ down there, or breathe much of the air. No problem, or a huge series of problems. The good news is that the Eagles will be just as miserable as the Packers until they can get back home. Who did this to both teams? Idiots.
Milwaukee Brewers.
As the end of August nears in the coming week, so does the end of the regular season. There are about five weeks and around 30 games for each team remaining, and the playoff picture is starting to take shape. Nobody is more comfortable than the Brewers, who have a 10-game lead over the Cardinals in the NL Central. Unless something drastically changes, Milwaukee should comfortably win its division. The Milwaukee Brewers and their fans are starving for a World Series title. Could 2024 finally be the year they get it done? Although the Brewers franchise has existed since 1969, Milwaukee is still one of just five teams in Major League Baseball never to win it all. The Brewers have had many excellent teams that were thought to have a shot at bringing home that elusive title. It hasn’t happened yet, with the nearest miss in 2018, when Milwaukee lost in seven games to the Los Angeles Dodgers in the National League Championship Series. However, in 2024, they just might have their best chance yet. And the numbers back up that notion.
Many statistical databases give the Brewers the biggest odds of winning the World Series. Part of the Brewers’ statistical advantage comes from their huge lead in the National League Central. With a 10-game lead over the second-place St. Louis Cardinals, the Brewers have more than double the separation atop their division compared to any other team in the big leagues. William Contreras has a case for best catcher in baseball, Willy Adames is among the game’s best two-way shortstops, Freddy Peralta can log innings and strikeouts with the best of aces, and rookie Jackson Chourio is quickly ascending to superstardom. If it all comes together, perhaps the Brewers can make good on Baseball Reference’s modeling and finally bring a trophy home to American Family Field.
