2007 Vent Thread, Part 2

[Patrick425]

The whole Counsel and Graffy hitting 1-2 should be thread all by itself. I'm driving home from work tonight and they are announcing the starting line up. I almost drove off the road in rage. You have got to be kidding me!!! Did they just pick the lineup out of a hat. What a joke!

[Bruce Ciskie]

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How would firing Yost help this team? Probably just as much as firing Wynegar did.

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Firing Yost would give this team a chance of actually fielding the best possible lineup pretty much every game, instead of maybe once a week if Yost rolls the dice properly.

 

I have a Kevin Mench rant stored from the weekend, but I'll leave that be, because it's just piling on at this point.

[UeckerAddict]

There are too many razor blades where I live.

[iluvlamp]

Breers! They don't deserve the W. A joke ass team. Verlander did this, Verlander did that! You know what? This team is THE joke of baseball now. Great. Rock bottom? It better be.

[trwi7]

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Rock bottom?

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Not yet. We haven't been perfect gamed.

[aracko]

I dont think Brewers Management has the beachballs to fire Yost.

[bucks2281]

I'm starting to think that a computer randomly selected tonight's lineup. Someone needs to smash a TV or a fridge in the clubhouse tonight. I don't know why, but it seems like that would do some good.

[Marc Newfield of Dreams]

Until now, I had severe doubts about Ned but thought that a change might be too rash of a move.

 

Seeing the top of our lineup tonight, I'm starting to think a move might be necessary. There's no reason to juggle the lineup as much as he has.

[SeriesFinale]

Breers! They don't deserve the W.

 

Thanks, I needed the laugh

[Brian the Automator]

Our forum background will remain black until the brewers get a hit.

[aracko]

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I'm starting to think that a computer randomly selected tonight's lineup. Someone needs to smash a TV or a fridge in the clubhouse tonight. I don't know why, but it seems like that would do some good.

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That would be sweet. Public displays of passion make me feel good.

[giffted1]

I can't stand how everyone complains about Yost.

 

We've been in a funk for the past month. Yost is shaking things up trying to find something that works, and people complain. If he kept the same lineup during that time people would complain.

 

Estrada was bad in the fifth spot - people complain.

 

Hart moved to the fifth spot - people complained because he wasn't leading off.

 

Counsell leads off, we get 22 hits - people are happy.

 

Counsell leads off, we get no hit - people complain.

 

Graffy has been hitting the ball well lately - people ignore this and complain when he's batting second.

 

Please people just admit that you'll criticize Yost no matter what happens.

[logan82]

in my defense I will say that my previous post on this thread was all sarcasm. Not in blue, but still sarcasm. The thing I am upset with the most is people who think that we should have our best players on the field every day. They need a day off now and then.

[RyDogg66]

This site is pwned by Justin Verlander?

 

Tell me you put that there Brian and you werent hacked.

[nullbyte]

ARRRRRRRRRRRGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

[Brian the Automator]

[ Tell me you put that there Brian and you werent hacked. ]

 

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[danzig6767]

give me a friggin break, you can't get one freakin hit .... thanks for embarassing me tonight Brewers ......... It's awsome being the joke of the league again. Suck it, Brewers. And thanks again.

 

Why is getting no hit some huge embarrassment,especially given how dominant Verlander's stuff was?If Gross had managed to squeak that single past Perez,that would have mattered how?

[valpocrewsader]

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Why is getting no hit some huge embarrassment,especially given how dominant Verlander's stuff was?If Gross had managed to squeak that single past Perez,that would have mattered how?

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If you're not absolutely EMBARASSED by seeing our boys go out there and come up 100% empty, accomplishing a very rare feet of complete sucktititude, seeing the Tigers celebrate on the field like it's the playoffs, allowing a spectacle that warrants family members out on the field, knowing tons of national coverage will be pointing out the Brewers crapulence, and (especially) dreading the barage of emails and phone calls you're going to have to deflect from friends and fellow baseball fans around the country .... then you and I simply watch baseball with our hearts in different places.

[iluvlamp]

Cubs are gonna win. For those who care. I don't. I wish the Breers would just play better. This division was ours. yep.

[Klements Bratwurst]

Dateline- Detroit, MI 5:30PM Visiting Clubhouse

 

Ned Yost is waiting around his office with an empty lineup card. He is biting his nails. Scratching his head. He is having some serious anxiety about something.

 

Yost: That darn phone better ring. It is getting close to game time. I need the lineup fairy to call me so that I can get the lineup out to the umpires. Where is he?

 

Phone rings.

 

Muffled voice: I have your 42nd new lineup today Ned.

 

Yost: You do? Does it have some gritty veteran battlers at the top of the order?

 

Muffled voice: You bet it does!

 

Yost: Oh goodie, goodie. Just want I always wanted. I love gritty veteran battlers. But wait, Mr. Lineup Fairy. That phenom Verlander is pitching tonight. Shouldn't we go with our best offensive weapons?

 

Muffled voice: No, Nedly. This lineup will allow you to rest the better players you have by giving them no more than 3 or 4 at bats by putting them at the middle or bottom of the lineup or not even have some of your better players IN the lineup.

 

Yost: What a great idea!! I like giving my better players a lot of time off to rest. Especially after having two off days in the last five days. This way, it will make them stronger for tomorrow, or the next day. Oh goodie, goodie!!

 

Yost: Can you tell me?

 

Muffled voice: Here it is

 

1. Counsell 2B

2. Graffanino 3B

3. Hardy SS

4. Fielder 1B

5. Hart RF

6. Jenkins LF

7. Estrada C

8. Hall CF

9. Gross DH

 

Yost: Wow! Two .600 OPS guys at the top of the order to rest my .900 OPS guy. Great thinking Mr. Lineup Fairy. This way, we will really be ready for Mike Maroth tomorrow, or that Durby guy for Thursday!!

 

Muffled Voice: I call you tomorrow with a new lineup Nedly.

 

Yost: Great! (Ned hangs up the phone)

 

15 minutes later after the lineups are put on the board at Comerica Park and Dale Sveum enters Ned's office.

 

Sveum: Ready to go Ned?

 

Yost: Yep, got a great lineup tonight.

 

Sveum: I saw it posted, not sure that I like the top of the order but it is your call.

 

Sveum shrugs his shoulders and walks toward the door of Ned's office and turns around.

 

Sveum: Ned, I ran into the guys that had your job before you. It was weird, I was walking between clubhouses earlier today and I saw Davey Lopes and Jerry Royster with a lineup card and a few scratchings on it. Are they scouting for some other team because Mike Maddux has also seen them before around.

 

Yost: Naw. I have never seen them around here before. What do they want? My job? Ha! Do they want to watch me to screw up like they did? Ha! Not going to happen, I have a secret weapon on my side!!!!

 

 

 

This is the undisputed true story of the events that led up to the first pitch before the Milwaukee Brewers were no hit for the third time in the history of the franchise.

[Kurt]

aww come on..

 

Do you think most of these attacks are coming from fair-weather fans? Fans who just started to follow the Brewers when they started winning?

 

it's mid-june and the Brewers are in first place. Considering most years they are in the cellar, I'm still enjoying my first place Brewers.

[Brian the Automator]

[ If you're not absolutely EMBARASSED by seeing our boys go out there and come up 100% empty, accomplishing a very rare feet of complete sucktititude, seeing the Tigers celebrate on the field like it's the playoffs, allowing a spectacle that warrants family members out on the field, knowing tons of national coverage will be pointing out the Brewers crapulence, and (especially) dreading the barage of emails and phone calls you're going to have to deflect from friends and fellow baseball fans around the country .... then you and I simply watch baseball with our hearts in different places. ]

 

I think you're overstating it a bit. Sure, the Brewers are the laughing stock of the majors for the next 24 hours, but after that, no one's going to remember who Verlander no-hit, other than Tigers fans.

 

Yeah, it's embarassing, but if they win 2 out of 3 from Detroit, I'll take the no-hitter in stride. In fact, if the Brewers won each series from here on out with a no-hitter in each one, I'd be thrilled.

 

It's a complete and utter emotional low... but after that subsides, it's 1 of 162.

[aracko]

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in my defense I will say that my previous post on this thread was all sarcasm. Not in blue, but still sarcasm. The thing I am upset with the most is people who think that we should have our best players on the field every day. They need a day off now and then.

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They had Thursday off and they had yesterday off. Thats more days off in the last 5 than me.

[brettac1]

If this is rock bottom, I guess I'm glad they hit it with a nice lead in the division.

 

Being no-hit really doesn't make me any more or less bummed than any other loss. It sucks, you move on and play tomorrow night and hope for better things.

[SeriesFinale]

I agree with most of valpo's post outside the media attention being turned towards the Brewers. The losing team in a no-hitter is never the story.

 

All the same, I am embarassed.