Next game: NL Division Series Game One
Wednesday, October 1 at Philadelphia
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This is why the Brewers traded for CC Sabathia.

This is why we kept Ryan Braun under contract for the long term in Milwaukee.

The biggest game in franchise history in 26 years.  Who came through when it counted?

These two now all-time Brewers heroes.

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Blogs
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• Jay Sorgi: Why We Got CC and Braunie
• Sports Glance with Lance: Party Like a Rock Star...Brewers Style
• Big Unit Blog: Can The Brewers Win It All?
• Cold Filtered Ramblings of Gene Mueller: This Ought To Be Good
• The Llama Laments: Soaked in Champagne

Audio:
Wisconsin's Morning News
• Brewers 360: Journal Sentinel Beat Writer Tom Haudricourt

After the Mets' loss started the celebration
• Mark Attanasio | Doug Melvin | Dale Sveum
• Sunday's Heroes: Ryan Braun | CC Sabathia
• Others: Dave Bush | Mike Cameron | Craig Counsell | Ray Durham
• Prince Fielder | J.J. Hardy | Bill Hall | Seth McClung
• Ben Sheets | Jeff Suppan | Rickie Weeks

After the Brewers win over the Cubs
• Dale Sveum | Seth McClung

"CC has been beyond anybody's expectations, beyond what anybody could have ever imagined," Braun felt.  "In my opinion by far the best player in baseball."

No pitching performance in more than a quarter of a century of Brewers baseball was ever bigger, more important and more celebratory than the one-run complete game that CC Sabathia delivered in the Brewers' 3-1 win.

No one ever had a bigger home run, dare I say, in team history, than Braun's 2-run blast to left that sent all of Milwaukee into delirium.

Those plays were the reason.

Thank you, Doug Melvin. Thank you, Mark Attanasio. Thank you for pulling the trigger on both those moves.

Thank you, Ned Yost, for trying your best for 150 games this season. Thank you, Dale Sveum, for succeeding in the last 12 games, putting the pieces together to make this team a playoff squad.

Of course, we could go on about the fact that Braun's permanency in Milwaukee is much steadier, and much more probable, than Sabathia's.

But we won't belabor the point.

Congrats, Milwaukee. Your Brewers guaranteed that I have happy adult memories of the Brewers; not just my 1982 World Series memories as a six-year-old.

Thank you Ryan, thank you CC, or "Chilled Champagne Sabathia."

Thanks for letting us all break the champagne glasses out ourselves to mix with the beer flowing.