{"id":11686,"date":"2011-08-13T21:36:00","date_gmt":"2011-08-13T20:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/?p=11686"},"modified":"2011-08-13T21:36:00","modified_gmt":"2011-08-13T20:36:00","slug":"brew-view-the-milwaukee-miracle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/?p=11686","title":{"rendered":"Brew View: The Milwaukee Miracle"},"content":{"rendered":"

So, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m away \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcfrom the desk\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 for about a month and it all changes. After my last piece lamenting the Brewers’ apparent lack of steam after the half-time break, they seem to have\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 re-steamed themselves? OK, enough metaphor stretching for the moment.<\/p>\n

\"Brewers<\/p>\n

The Brewers have almost<\/em> cemented their first place lead in the NL Central and the second half of the season is truly in full swing.
\nI say almost<\/em> because, if I were to be neutral, it really is still too close to call. The Cards are only a couple of series sweeps behind. But hey, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m not neutral and it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Wisconsin vs Pennsylvania again. We all remember how that turned out in the Super Bowl (or at least those of us who follow more than one American sport do.)
\nWith the Pirates bobbing about at the bottom of the barrel this should prove to be a no-brainer. In fact, they went from the top of the division almost to the bottom in the space of less than two weeks. Ouch.<\/p>\n
Nursing a full stomach (pizza + ale = indigestion. Who knew?) I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll sit back and let the action begin. Ah, as good as some \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcvacation\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 time was, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s good to have baseball on the screen again.<\/p>\n

As a side note: it still pleases me to meet State-siders in my day-to-day wanderings, especially when they are quite obviously fans of the pastime<\/em>. Today I had a short but sweet conversation with a girl and her mom<\/em> about the Phillies success this season. If we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re going to \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcgo there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 (and you know we will) I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d have to venture the Philsters as a definite favourite for NL pennant. But then, who could say otherwise?<\/p>\n

Let battle commence!<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Brewers have almost cemented their first place lead in the NL Central and the second half of the season is truly in full swing. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[121,553,124],"class_list":["post-11686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlb-2","tag-milwaukee-brewers","tag-mlb-2","tag-pittsburgh-pirates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11686"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11691,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11686\/revisions\/11691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}