2008-04-19 Brewers (Suppan) at Mets (Figueroa): 12:10 PM CDT... Hart and Hardy dye their hair jet black [Brewers win, 4-2]

[thablingster]

I'm guessing Macha leaving Suppan in is less of a nod to Suppan for pitching well today and more of a statement to the bullpen that other than Coffey Macha has faith in not one guy out there right now, lol.

[giffted1]

Apparently everyone but Ken Macha saw that coming. Unbelievable.

[GormanHarvey]

I really like Macha but right now i am scratching a hole in my head. that may have been worse than yost

[moofnelson]

Ugh, terrible managing by Macha, that was Yost-like.

I was thinking the same thing. I hope were not forced to use the "Yosted" phrase!

[liveforoctober]

textbook strikeout for Stetter... well done.

 

*edit* spoken to soon... just keep the lead Mitch..

[tristarscoop]

Brian has just been awful announcing this year. Every fly ball is "deep" even if it ends up about 250 feet from home plate.

I was just going to post the same thing. I think he has done it at least once in every game. That ball actually went to the track and BA didnt say a word

Near the end of last season BA was the subject of the in-stadium Gameday mag feature story and it was beyond laughable. In complete seriousness he discussed his theories on announcing and how you have to build and you can't just jump right in and even used a 1-10 scale to describe his calls. It was so corny and just really made me roll my eyes at BA. In addition, for him to talk about keeping it at a 4 when he's constantly acting like any fly ball is going to end up out of the park is just funny.

 

But also tied to that, I've been to MP 3 times so far and it feels like any ball that pops off the bat the whole crowd stands and cheers and the "awwww"s when it's caught in shallow center field. Seriously, why are people so excited about obvious can-o-corn pop-ups as though they think they're going to be out of the park homers.

[rluzinski]

Brewers getting dinked and dunked to death right now. Man o man.

[moofnelson]

I wish the Brewer's had a few hitters like Murphy.

[brains and braun]

I think it just reflects the amount of people who aren't really regulars out there.

[tristarscoop]

Did Sheffield's homer get in Stetter's head?

[Brewer Fever]

And now we're starting to see why the reluctance to go to the pen.

[Bruce Ciskie]

Why is it that we don't have any pitchers who are capable of throwing the ball over the plate consistently? Is it that hard?

 

EDIT: Obviously, I know it's hard, otherwise more people would be capable of doing it. So don't take that literally. http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/smile.gif

[Marc Newfield of Dreams]

Unreal. This team loathes prosperity.

 

Edit- Come on Java, get a DP.

[Ennder]

Did Sheffield's homer get in Stetter's head?

He got a groundball from Reyes, most of the time that is an out but Reyes is just too fast. He made a decent pitch to Murphy, he just got a single out of it. I don't have much of an issue with that outing by Stetter.

[tristarscoop]

I love how Coffey sprints in. Also, finally a smart move by Macha.

[thablingster]

I know Macha wanted to save Coffey for a save situation, but I guess I give him some credit for using him now. Macha looks straight up frustrated.

[Ennder]

I can't help but think this ends up as a grand slam or 3 run double. Coffey has been terrific this year so far but I still really worry when he is facing good lefties.

[Bruce Ciskie]

I can't help but think this ends up as a grand slam or 3 run double. Coffey has been terrific this year so far but I still really worry when he is facing good lefties.

 

At least he started with a strike.

[rluzinski]

YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSS! Nice leather, Coffey!

[Ennder]

Well by 3 run double I meant 0 run double play, just a typo.

[thablingster]

Move over, Claudio Vargas. Todd Coffey is apparently the new Houdini!

 

If only we could clone him and we'd have more quality relievers, lol.

[tristarscoop]

Some awesome weird/unusual double plays in this game.

 

It's nice to be able to rely on at least one pitcher whenever he comes in the game.

[benji]

The anti-yosted. Yes!

[trwi7]

Absolutely huge double play by Coffey!

[Gobias Industries]

LOL. We better win this game after that weird play.