Dodgers' Attendance Woes: Brewers Sweep in NLCS Showdown!

We need to talk about the Dodger fans who didn't show up. Oh, let's talk about it, please. Well, I would like to say this. There was no excuse for the Dodgers not to sell out any... They didn't sell out any of the NLCS games, by the way. I was at game one of the NLDS. Parking was $75 then. It remained $75 throughout the course of the NLCS. Tickets are ludicrous. um that is partly i think why uh dodger fans didn't show up but it's still it's still kind of embarrassing for a los angeles dodgers team who listen game three wasn't like oh my god the series is over like why would we go game three was a chance for them to get back in the series and even that one didn't sell out so i think led the league in attendance this year so it's not like they're bad fans they're great fans well i will say for whatever reason i will say this those numbers are skewed a little bit there are a lot of empty games i watched a lot of dodger home games there was a lot of empty seats in the corners and at the top for a lot of those games that you know they'll say oh it's a sellout i'm looking up i'm like there's a camera angle on freddie freeman in the box there's like wow there's like entire sections that are empty so i think they skewed them go ahead john raj posted a tweet tonight yeah where he was there before the start of the game and panned the stadium man it was a lot of empty seats and this wasn't like oh it's the first inning because in the first inning in los angeles it's hard to get anywhere whether that be started Laker games, Rams games, it doesn't matter they usually show up late but when they show up they show out and that you got to respect that but the fact that this image of this many empty seats it's it they got some explaining to do now obviously you see different ballparks the energy in the ballpark gives the players a little extra something that's what home field advantage is supposed to be about but if the fans don't do their part and the players are you know sucking wind out there it's it's just a bad look all around it's a bad look for the Dodgers for running out of gas at this time of the year when they did it's a bad look for the fan base to not show up and you know they got swept for a reason Milwaukee was better Milwaukee I I forgot to say this in the open but Milwaukee embodies everything that I love about the game of baseball they just do um as much as I am a Dodger fan I am a baseball fan I played the game of baseball through the Division One level I saw how the game was supposed to be played and I was taught the game the right way and the Dodgers didn't play the game the right way they didn't move runners over when they were supposed to they didn't play small ball when the Brewers did the Brewers pitching staff was phenomenal they knew how to get out those juggernaut hitters that the dodgers had um and it's it's a little bit of both it's the dodgers underperforming and the superstars not showing up for long periods of time that top five that vaunted top five that they had wasn't good it The best players on the roster were, I would say, Tarik Skubal. He pitched pretty well, even though he didn't win. And Andy Pause and Kyle Tucker. Those are their three best players. Let me argue this. Styles make fights. The idea that this roster now is going to play small ball. I know there are situations, and we talked about this previously, where you do need to bunt if you got nobody out and a man on first and second. You do need to bunt that guy over in these particular situations where you're in a one- or two-run game. But this roster, and we got to say this, with these paychecks, they don't pay these guys to bunt. They don't. And so the fact that anybody would think that they would now switch their style to match the Brewers' style to combat the scoreboard, that was never going to happen. People were expecting for Ohtani to hit the bombs that he hit in games one, two, and three, and he didn't. And this is why, by the way, Ohtani, you don't play if you're hurt, buddy. No one cares. No one cares. I mean, some of the swings that I saw out of this Dodgers team were some of the worst swings I've seen any hitter take all season. I'm not even talking about the Dodgers. I mean, they were swinging at sliders that were five feet away from them. It wasn't even close. And again, I am trying to give Milwaukee credit because their bullpen absolutely lights out. Ashby is phenomenal. That pen that they have is incredible. and there's a reason why the milwaukee brewers are advancing to the World Series is because they played sound baseball defensively and their staff Padres fans know it too Dodgers fans now get a taste of it oh yeah they play sound baseball and i love that not to mention i said this before the series they had a massive chip on their shoulder Pat Murphy their manager went into this series mad angry like i don't want this to happen again they swept us last year they had that motivation behind them to where hey we're gonna go in there and shove it down their throat this year they return the favor they return the favor and listen i love my Dodgers they have some decisions to make