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Travis Shaw's Great Start Is Getting Overshadowed By Eric Thames

The entire Brewers lineup is acting like it's 1982 all over again, and Shaw is showing serious power early on.

Remember "Harvey's Wallbangers?" Well, it was a long time ago -- 1982 to be exact.

That was the year the Milwaukee Brewers, playing in the American League at the time, utterly destroyed baseball for an entire season by launching an MLB-best 216 home runs, a prodigious offensive assault upon the AL that took them all the way to Game 7 of the '82 World Series, where they would eventually lose to the St.