'82 Brewers expect team's 25-year playoff drought to end

[645]

PHOENIX - It has been 25 years since the Milwaukee Brewers were in the World Series. But to Cecil Cooper and Don Money, it seems like it was just yesterday.

"It was an amazing year where everything just came together," Cooper said last week while coaching at the Brewers' fantasy camp at the team's spring training facility. "We had quite a nice run there."

Those Brewers lost the 1982 World Series to the St. Louis Cardinals in seven games. The Brewers will honor their '82 team at a ceremony in August when the team plays the Cardinals at Miller Park.

Cooper and other members of that team said they never believed that their distinction of being the only Brewers' team to make it to the World Series would last for 25 years.

But the team hasn't even had a winning record since 1992.

Journal Times

[Hellwig]

Even though I wasn't alive in 1982 it's hard to believe that the Brewers never made it to the playoffs after that especially with Yount and Molitor. I am aware they had a pretty nice winning streak going in 1987. And I remember sometime around the mid 90's when we started off hot only to fade. 2005 was a view of what the future holds for us, 2006 was what happens with a young team that was picked by many as a surprise team, and hopefully 2007 will finally be the year. Even though the NL Central has improved over the off-season, I am still glad we play in this division.

[hauser42]

Originally Posted by Hellwig

Even though I wasn't alive in 1982 it's hard to believe that the Brewers never made it to the playoffs after that especially with Yount and Molitor. I am aware they had a pretty nice winning streak going in 1987. And I remember sometime around the mid 90's when we started off hot only to fade. 2005 was a view of what the future holds for us, 2006 was what happens with a young team that was picked by many as a surprise team, and hopefully 2007 will finally be the year. Even though the NL Central has improved over the off-season, I am still glad we play in this division.

I was a 12 year old kid when they made it that year and it was a hell of a thing to do back then. There were only two teams in each league getting into the playoffs, and that was the division winners. The AL East was the most loaded division through the 80s. Yankees were on the end of their run of some solid teams, Boston was loaded with great hitters and a threat every year, Baltimore still had Weaver and a solid team all - around, and Toronto was no slouch in that division as they had a lot of great talent in the 80s. It was a dog fight every summer to get into the playoffs.

This young team will end the drought if not this year very soon, it has that feel of a solid team like you had in the 80s.

[645]

interesting hauser, I was 12 year old kid that summer too. That was the year I become a fan and that was a great year for the Brewers and I look forward to the ending of the drought.

[hauser42]

645 I had went to my first Brewer game in 80, and went for a number of years in a row. I only went to one game a year but it was always a highlight to go down and watch a very talented team play ball.