2010-07-21 Brewers (Wolf) at Pirates (Duke), 6:05 PM CDT [Brewers lose, 15-3]

[BrewCrewForever]

These guys are like the Lynn Dickey era Packers...incredible offense, horrendous defense...having to work way too hard just to knock on .500.

 

They'll probably lose this one 15-12

That is a fantastic analogy. This team sure does seem to be the baseball version of those Packers teams.

[thablingster]

Wolf's pitching has Davey flummoxed more than usual. All he could muster was "he's throwing it right over the plate." Also, hooray Cain sighting!

[hawing]

I'd like to move on, someday, from my current signature, but the 2010 season just won't let me.

[yfinn6]

Well, I had the game off to watch Trailer Park Boys, but now that Lo Cain is in it's coming back on!

[BrewCrewForever]

Good AB by Cain and it leads to another hit.

[bill hAll Star]

That single just bought Cain 5 extra games on the bench.

[Beast Light]

Randy Wolf is garbage. When the signing was made, I said that it had "Jeff Suppan" written all over it. However many claimed that he was left-handed and threw much harder, therefore the signing was not similar at all.

 

I say be cautious of signing pitchers coming off of contract years.

 

This team is not simply unlucky, it is a joke and if they don't start selling off some pieces for pitching, I don't know how I am going to watch them next year.

[chadomac]

I say be cautious of signing pitchers coming off of contract years.

Aren't all pitchers that we sign coming off contract years?

[Beast Light]

I say be cautious of signing pitchers coming off of contract years.

Aren't all pitchers that we sign coming off contract years?

Sorry, I meant to type "big contract years".

 

[pebadger]

I'm not too embarrased to say I've been watching Manchester United vs the expansion MLS team from Philadelphia. I'm not a huge soccer fan, but for those of you who are not fans at all, watching this game is essentially like watching a Packers pre-season game against an American football team from England. And I think I got the better end of the deal.

[Raw Biz]

Randy Wolf is garbage. When the signing was made, I said that it had "Jeff Suppan" written all over it.

 

While nobody thought he would be amazing, I don't think anybody thought he would be as bad as he has been. He is probably having the worst season of his career so far. He should be around a 4.25 era. It just sucks that everybody we've signed in the past few years have had career-worst seasons with us. I don't think Wolf's career is over and he can still be useful so I won't be calling him Suppan 2.0 quite yet.

[Invader3K]

Flipped over to MLB Network. The updates on Strasburg's latest outing are a lot more entertaining than the crap the Brewers are trotting out tonight.

[derflotr]

I won't be calling him Suppan 2.0 quite yet.

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While nobody thought he would be amazing, I don't think anybody thought he would be as bad as he has been. He is probably having the worst season of his career so far. He should be around a 4.25 era.

Sounds kind of familiar.

[Funketown]

I'm not too embarrased to say I've been watching Manchester United vs the expansion MLS team from Philadelphia. I'm not a huge soccer fan, but for those of you who are not fans at all, watching this game is essentially like watching a Packers pre-season game against an American football team from England. And I think I got the better end of the deal.

I have been as well. It's fun to see the European giants tour the states, even if the stars aren't with them. Watching the Brewers has been agonizing. At this point, I'd rather watch Maltese minor league handball.

[yfinn6]

Shoddy defense can't help Wolf's numbers, but still, he's been underwhelming.

[Yeti73]

Jason Stark last night noted that the last team before Brewers to have 3 pitchers give up 10+ R in same calendar month: '91 A's (Dressendorfer May 4, Welch May 5, Moore May 17). Parra and Narvy have done it. Bush was third last night, Wolf tonight. Has to be the record, right?

[thablingster]

Cory and Davey are pretty certain the Pirates are now taking pity on the Brewers, not sending the runner from third last inning there when he probably could have scored. In regards to 10+ runs in a game, Haudricourt tweeted no team had starting pitchers allow at least 10 runs three times in a four-game stretch since the St. Louis Browns from July 5-9, 1937.

[hawing]

Joe Inglett shaved his epic beard. I don't even want to break that news to thablingster.

[thablingster]

Inglett still has the beard, it is just not as epic as Kottaras'.

[brewmann04]

Wolf has not done anything to prove to me he won't be another Suppan.He is a soft tosser who pitched in a big ball park in LA.

[Teatoe993]

I can't believe I watched the whole thing.

[Raw Biz]

Wolf has not done anything to prove to me he won't be another Suppan.He is a soft tosser who pitched in a big ball park in LA.

He pitched in LA for one year last year and one year in 2007. He also pitched a half-year in Houston (a hitter's park) where he did pretty well (granted the other half in the pitcher's park in SD wasn't as good). And then he pitched in two different parks in PHI for the first 8 years of his career. I don't think anyone can be as bad as Suppan was.

 

[crewcrazy]

I think this series is payback for those 20-0 and 17-3 drubbings the Brewers dealt the Bucs earlier this year. The baseball gods do not approve, apparently.

[dlk9s]

There should be no one on this board that thinks this team has any future with this rotation

I don't think you have to worry about that.

[Schlitz001]

I missed the game but I read the box score. I was completely shocked not to find a "What is the future of Randy Wolf" thread in the main forum. I hope the numbers he put up today look worse than they really are.