4/17/08 Brewers (Parra) at Cardinals (Lohse): 12:15 PM CDT

[BrewCrewForever]

This new Busch Stadium is turning into PNC Park #2 for the Brewers. Nothing goes right.

[moofnelson]

wow, when things go bad they really go bad. The Cardinals pitchers are doing better in this series then the Brewers whole lineup.

[sheethead]

Dare I say, game over?

[PrinceFielder28]

There pitchers have more hits in the series than Braun and Fielder combined

[PrinceFielder28]

Is this going to be another season of the Brewers being absolutely terrible on the road?

[trwi7]

5 walks in 4.1 innings. How can you win pitching like that?

 

Again I'm not blaming these walks on Parra. He's pitched well, DeMuth is just awful in his strike zone. It's the size of a pinhead right now.

[moofnelson]

Brian Barton looks like "Crabman" on My Name Is Earl.

[BrewCrewForever]

For the second game in a row, and this time I think we will see him I smell McDung!

[Blancofan1]

that's enough IGT for me today. if I stay here I'm afraid that I will end up with too many BF strikes, unless DeMuth is a moderator today, maybe then I could skirt the cuss filter

[tristarscoop]

And the sign we have officially gave up: Seth McClung is up!

[JohnBriggs12]

Fielder is setting vegetarianism for athletes back by generations.

 

The "competition" for the rotation is turning into attrition. Of course who can blame these guys with zero offensive support for trying to be too fine?

[BrewCrewForever]

Is this going to be another season of the Brewers being absolutely terrible on the road?

It is starting to look that way. But it is a long season, thank God.

 

[moofnelson]

I get the feeling that Ankiel isn't going to let Parra off the hook here.

[GormanHarvey]

I'm listening on the radio and I am just curious - is the strike zone really that bad? Because neither Powell nor Ueck have made a single mention of it and Jim is usually pretty on top of things like that...

[afeter]

when does bfan start to rip into skaalen? This site has torn other hitting coaches apart. Jim seems to get a pass

[BrewCrewForever]

Whewwwww, we got out of it.

[Fear The Chorizo]

here goes another 95 pitch at bat

[BrewCrewForever]

when does bfan start to rip into skaalen? This site has torn other hitting coaches apart. Jim seems to get a pass

That is a good point, I totally forgot about him for some reason. Off to the Vent Thread I go......

 

[SeriesFinale]

Maybe I'm an insane optimist but I think that Ankiel out was huge for our prospects today--I still have this crazy belief that this offense can muster 4 runs

[uwbufu24]

Only down 3, still lots of time to awaken the bats.

[Gobias Industries]

I'm listening on the radio and I am just curious - is the strike zone really that bad? Because neither Powell nor Ueck have made a single mention of it and Jim is usually pretty on top of things like that...

It's as bad as I've ever seen.

[sargennm]

when does bfan start to rip into skaalen? This site has torn other hitting coaches apart. Jim seems to get a pass

I'm guessing because after a while it becomes pretty clear it's not the coaches failing to coach, it's the players failing to perform.

 

[olliegjw]

when does bfan start to rip into skaalen? This site has torn other hitting coaches apart. Jim seems to get a pass

Similar to CV and Parra getting a pass when their starts have been no better than Bush's.

[JohnBriggs12]

Time to shake things up. Next inning plant one in Pujols ribcage (not that I'm advocating it) and get a brawl started. Maybe that's whats needed to wake up this sleepy team.

[Ennder]

when does bfan start to rip into skaalen? This site has torn other hitting coaches apart. Jim seems to get a pass

 

Well I'd certainly wait for more than one week, remember a week ago we were leading the league in runs per game.