If you remember, I told you back on the 8th that the Brewers weren’t as good as their record (Milwaukee Brewers—Best Record, Not Best Team) and I showed you why. I also mentioned that I expected them to slide—and they did.

Keen baseball bettors have been able to main some nice coin on betting against the Brewers of late. The Brewers lost their three-game series against the Mets. They lost their four-game series against the Phillies. They lost their three-game series against the Twins. And they’ve split their three-game series against the Dodgers so far and they get to face Brad Penny tonight.

The Milwaukee Brewers have the best record in all of MLB baseball. Are they the best team in the NL or the MLB? Hardly.

The 2007 Brewers are, so far, proving that records are misleading. They are 24-10, which is a .706 win percent. They’ve won 6 in a row and 9 of their last 10.

If I told you that their last three games were against the Washington Nationals (9-25) and their four before that were against the Pittsburgh Pirates (14-18), would you still be impressed?

The Florida Marlins have become the talk of the town of late. On shows such as “Around the Horn” on ESPN, they have talked about the Marlins as the eventual NL Wild Card. They are three back now with a few teams ahead of them. The recent stint against St. Louis proved to be a losing one. Still, they are right there in the hunt. The Brewers are 6.5 games out in the NL Wild Card and almost left for dead. It’s not just the games behind, but the fact that there are 9 teams ahead of them. That’s close to insurmountable no matter how many games out you are.

Two Wild Card hopefuls—Houston Astros and Milwaukee Brewers—go at it today. The Houston Astros have won six straight games and find themselves miraculously just three games out in the Wild Card race. The Milwaukee Brewers are a little bit further back at six games, but they are still in the hunt. There are only a few weeks left in the season, so both of these teams need to start making their push now. Houston is right where they want to be for a push. The Brewers can’t afford to lose at this point. While they are 6 games out, they are also trailing eight other teams. Basically, they’ve only got a prayer.