2007 Vent Thread, Part 2

[brewmann04]

I agree you stick here with your closer here,but still this is a terrible loss for the brewers.

 

I have to stop and stay away for a week from this team,they are just making me sick.

[trwi7]

Yeah this loss is going to take a long time to get over. Hopefully the players get over it before the fans.

 

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[bucks2281]

Ned Yost's comments regarding Cordero's blown save:

 

"It's not devastating," he said. "We're not dead. It's a ballgame. We'll be back tomorrow. It's definitely tough, but it's not devastating."

 

Um Ned, I thought that playing and winning ballgames were your job. The intensity is lacking right now, when the division title has seemingly been on a golden platter.

[DougJones43]

I agree that there is no way you take Cordero out. But how do you let him give up 4 runs without even making a mound visit to calm him down and try to slow down the Ranger's momentum?

[DougJones43]

Just looked at the standings, and we've now given up exactly as many runs as we have scored during the season. The first official signal that our talent is nothing more than that of a .500 ballclub. Woohoo! http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/frown.gif

 

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[BraunsBoyfriend]

You don't take out Cordero. Yost made the right moves. Give credit to Texas. They came up big.

 

Cordero even had pretty decent stuff. He got 0-2 on 3 or 4 guys. They just were able to hit the strikeout pitch.

 

It happens and it sucks. This is the vent thread though. So yell all you can I guess.

 

We are as I've stated for awhile a .500 team right now.

 

Our manager sucks btw.

[madcrewfan]

Just bad luck. That's what I'm going to vent about. No one can really blame Yost or Cordero in this situation. If you're Yost, your closer has the game down to practically the last pitch, so you have to stick with the best closer in baseball. Cordero was bound to blow a save eventually. It's not like he was going to go 65/65 on save opps this season. The Rangers hit good pitches, so you have to give them credit. It absolutely sucks, and happened at a bad time for this team, given the recent stretch they've had, but I think every other team in the Central lost today if I remember correctly, so not like it hurt us that much. Hopefully they will rebound.

[Oldcity]

Just wondering what others thought, but it looked to me on that Lofton grounder that Graffanino would have had that. I thought Prince did his vintage "stray way too far off the bag" move. If he would have just stayed home and let Graffy field it they'd have gotten the out IMO.

 

Wow, what a horrible way to lose.

[AJAY]

It's 1:45 AM and it just officially hit me that the Brewers blew that game today. I was trying to be calm and rational and was trying to put it in perspective. But it just hit me that we really lost that game. Now I am fuming and I just feeling like breaking something. All bets are off.

 

I HATE THIS TEAM.

 

I HATE THIS FRANCHISE. THEY REALLY PISS ME OFF.

 

(I apologize for the delayed reaction, but I just want to vent)

 

I can't believe it was 3-0 with 2 outs in the 9th and nobody on base and we STILL lost. All I can think of is 0-2 counts and how all we needed was one stupid pitch that could have finished the game. This feels like torture.

 

This team looks like absolute crap right now and has blown every opportunity to bury the rest of the division and run away with this. After 25 years, this team owes us now. They better go on a major winning streak because I am starting to get real sick of this. It's time to start kicking some butt and taking things to a new level for a change. I want to win NOW.

 

Ned Yost, you are now on alert. I don't care if this isn't your fault. Start winning some games or get outta here.

 

I know people like you and I will stick with this team, but I am so angry about the casual fan out there who is feeling tricked and deceived by the hot start. Every player on this team better look in the mirror and come out hungry and ready to perform.

 

Please spare me with that "it's a long season" stuff and that "law of averages" stuff. I know all that is correct, but right now I am fuming and I am not rational so it won't help.

 

I just want to scream right now.

 

I HATE THIS TEAM. http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/mad.gif http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/mad.gif

 

Ugh.

[brewizard]

I'm just mad that AJAY had to waste his celebratory 7,200'th post on a rant of that caliber.

 

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[thablingster]

Maybe it'll be some good mojo and they'll go out and smoke Padilla tomorrow. http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/wink.gif

[Yaz]

Rydogg you and Rluz are buddy ol' pals I see. TOO BAD!!!!!

 

The Crew is living on BORROWED TIME. History is ugly but necessary the Crew are just doing what they do best, LOSE!

 

Unfortunately Cordero is human and decided to drop one on us all tonight. sigh.... I don't blame him for this at all. The Crews offense is PATHETIC. It should not have come to this. Since the Brewers were 24-10 the hitting has been spotty at best. It's really sad. Poor Cordero, I am waiting for all the morons to start calling for his head. Did anyone notice how Turnbow flat out DOMINATED the Rangers tonight? Guess not.. (sarcasm)

 

2-7 roadtrip is OPTIMISM. What say you Rluz???

[unsanitary999]

What pissed me off the most about tonight is that Cordero chose the absolute wrong time to be human for the first time this season. If he is human during the 9-1 homestand, I care not.

 

But tonight, against the worst team in baseball, struggling as much as we are...

 

God @#%$.

[Time for a Miller]

It is almost 4am and I am still dwelling on the Brewers loss. I am fuming about Texas and they're now get-away-day games cause I need the awful pictures of the last game out of my head. The 0-2 counts, me causualing saying hmm Coco just doubled, tripled, quadrupled, oh no quintupled his run total for the season.

 

I need the next game to come soon, even if it is a more conventional loss it will be better then this. I am predicting a win since I will not be watching the game on TV.

[Fike85]

I'm done with this team for a while. I can only take so much before I cease to enjoy watching baseball, and that point was crossed by tonights game. I hate paying so much attention to every game only to be ultimately disappointed. I hate being the fan of a team that has not had a winning season since 1992. I need a break from Brewers baseball.

 

One more thought, I hope we never see Estrada batting 5th again. When Weeks gets back I hope we see this starting lineup on a regular basis:

 

Weeks

Hardy

Braun

Fielder

Hart

Jenkins

Hall

Miller/Estrada

 

EDIT #2: By "Time Off" I mean at least until the 4th inning of tonights game.

[BrewCrewForever]

Weeks

Hardy

Braun

Fielder

Hart

Jenkins

Hall

Miller/Estrada

 

As much as I like Hart leading off, when Weeks comes back I think that is the absolute best lineup we can trot out there. I like that one a lot. Could be a winner that Yost could actually stick with.

[Nearsighted Views]

Quote:

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Summary: Brewers closer Chad Cordero blew a three-run lead and his first save opportunity of the season, giving up four runs to the Rangers in the ninth en route to a 4-3 loss.

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Wasn't sure where to put this. Not really an article and not worthy of a thread. You blow one save and now they don't know your name. From espn.com

[Bert55]

Ok, My turn to vent.....

 

Sunday morning is coffee and a newspaper. But when the Brewers loose like they did last night, I just don't want to read the paper. I realize that you can't win them all, but it just seems like the Brewers are lacking SOMETHING.

 

We are no longer the media darlings and our play is mediocre.

I would like to think that a trade would be in order. But what do you trade for. Hall just signed a huge contract and he is barely hitting his weight. Jenks/Mench are streaky. I could go on but I would be just rambling.

 

Lastly, I am in for the long hawl. Yost, start throwing crap in the locker room or something...get pissed!!!! your team is starting to lack something and it is your job to get them going, before you become the problem.

 

I obviously did not sleep well, as I could have wrote better.

 

For God sake: GO BREWERS

[Brian the Automator]

[ God @#%$. ]

 

Even in the venting thread, cussing is not allowed. Always make sure you check your post if it has any unsavory words in it to see if our cuss filter was applied to it.

[pebadger]

Burgleflikle!

[jlau20]

I just woke up from a poor night of sleep, mainly because I couldn't stop running through the last month or so for the Brewers.

 

I think it might be safe to say this team has finally hit rock bottom based on how they started the season and how the season has gone since being 25-11.

 

Coco was the one constant (I suppose Fielder can be considered here also) and even he had a meltdown last night. I fully expected that Cordero wasn't going to go 100% for saves on the season. It's just completely unfortunate that this had to happen when the team was already nearing the lowest point of the season as a whole.

 

The positive I gather from this is that from here, the team almost has to start heading back up.

 

I know alot of people support Yost, and alot of people don't support Yost. I'm torn. I think he's done excellent work developing our young talent over the past few years and for the most part he's done the right things in terms of getting them into the lineup.

 

However, Yost never has and it seems never will impress me as an in-game manager. I don't really feel like listing the times, even just from this season, that he's made questionable calls as far as pinch hitting, making pitching changes, etc. And quite frankly when is it time he shows a little frustration in the dugout. Lately, IMO, it looks like he's living on a fantasy planet where losing games in ugly fashion is ok. Hopefully he can prove me wrong, get a set lineup and right the ship.

 

We've gone from 14 games over .500 to 4 games over .500 and our division lead is down to 5 games with a few of those teams below us picking up some steam. Right now is the time for the Crew to either man up and say enough is enough and prove that this could be their year to make the playoffs. If they don't I still think that '08 is the year, but based on their hot start this is a team that is proving that they might have just been getting lucky for a little over a month.

[Invader3K]

If they don't I still think that '08 is the year, but based on their hot start this is a team that is proving that they might have just been getting lucky for a little over a month.

 

NO! I haven't heard any of the "NEXT YEAR IS THE REAL YEAR" talk in a long time, and I don't wanna start now. This team has talent. They just need to start playing like it, or I expect to see Yost fired after this season. He needs to start managing based on what guys can be expected to do, and not what he hopes they will do. Yes, I know he can't pitch or hit for the players (and I do think last night's loss falls on Cordero), but at some point a manager has to find a way to get wins when needed, and he's accountable for that right now.

 

That said, the players seem to be playing down to the level of lesser teams, and that is just sickening. It's something we saw way too often last year, and it's time for it to stop. I also hope Melvin is working the phone, and formulating some trades, because this team needs another bat, badly. Yes, I know there aren't many open spots on the team, and all that, but the current lineup isn't cutting it. We need someone who is going to bat .300 consistently, and do what it takes to drive in some base runners, already.

 

I'm mainly mad because so many people were saying that April was a fluke for the Brewers, and they've been proving those people completely fight for the last five or six weeks now. Enough is enough. I'm sick of being seen as the laughing stock of baseball.

[bklynbrewcrew]

Same old Brewers. Its really that simple. The only difference is they had us believing with that fast start. Now that is all just a distant memory. If this team was going to suck I wish they wouldnt have teased us all by getting off to that fast start.

[Bert55]

The only saving grace is the balance of the division is equally as sorry.

 

I agree that we are at the " rock bottom " and Yost is going to have to pick a steady lineup and run with it.

[jlau20]

Quote:

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"I'm very pleased with the way they're going about their business and the way they're playing, for the most part," Yost said of his team.

 

The skipper dismissed the notion that the offense is to blame for the team's recent stretch, despite the club scoring three runs or less in 15 of its last 23 games.

 

"I really don't look at it as offensive woes," he said. "We're just not scoring enough runs to win right now. The reason we're not scoring enough runs is because our pitching is giving up too many runs, plain and simple."

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What?