Milwaukee Brewers are currently in the hunt for a playoff spot. This year, it is a little different than last year. Brewers are not going to win the National League Central as the St. Louis Cardinals will be the champs there barring an epic collapse. The best they can hope for is the Wild Card position. Right now, they sit four games back of the Chicago Cubs. If Brewers were to sweep this weekend at Miller Park, they might not even be tied considering Philadelphia and Arizona are both ahead of the Brew Crew at the moment. Eric Thames, Brewers first baseman, offered some sage advice about how to think about the MVP Playoffs. We might need a quote book from Thames.

Eric Thames on playoff race: "It’s hard, because baseball is sport where it’s like bird in your hand. You can’t hold it too tight or you’ll kill it. You can’t hold it too loose or it will fly away. It’s one of those things you just have to get in there and compete, do your best."

— Tom (@Haudricourt) September 4, 2019

This is a wise man, right here folks. We could apply this to our everyday life too, right? If you try too hard, you’re going to fuck things up and the end result will be things going completely south for you. When you give things too much leash, things get out of your control. If Thames is thinking this way, I’m 1000 percent on board with the Brewers this September. That is the definite way to think and part of me believes that he isn’t the only one in the clubhouse to think that way.

The Brewers first baseman is having an excellent season for the Crew and added his 20th home run last night. What a difference a year makes for Milwaukee’s first baseman. Brewers will have a decision about picking up his club option for a fourth year.

.@EricThames launched a rocket clear out of the park to give the Brewers a 4-1 lead! #ThisIsMyCrew pic.twitter.com/wFL5HiSwBb

— Milwaukee Brewers (@Brewers) September 4, 2019