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With a telecast of the A's-Twins playoff game providing the backdrop, the Milwaukee Brewers' brass went through a season wrap-up Tuesday that was more "should have been" than "could have been" about the disappointing 2006 season.

"We'd prefer to be on television right now," general manager Doug Melvin said, acknowledging the screens on the club level at Miller Park. "I really did feel we had a chance to win."

Now Melvin, assistant GM Gord Ash and manager Ned Yost are faced with four months of restructuring a roster and coaching staff to make it happen.

"I feel better at this time of year than I did last year," Yost said two days after the Brewers completed a 75-87 season, after an 81-81 mark in 2005. "I think (the players) left with the sense that they can win this thing. I think they feel it more now than they did last year."

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