2024 Magic Number Thread

[Baldkin]

0 ER in 10.2 IP in the 2011 playoffs. 

[folly412]

2 hours ago, Baldkin said:

0 ER in 10.2 IP in the 2011 playoffs. 

 

I know he was at the tail end of his career then, but if you want to feel old, Takashi Saito is 54 years old.

[sveumrules]

23 minutes ago, folly412 said:

I know he was at the tail end of his career then, but if you want to feel old, Takashi Saito is 54 years old.

If you wanna feel really old Gomez & Lucroy are still only 38 & have been retired for five and three years, respectively. ⚰️🪦

[Jim French Stepstool]

I never paid enough attention to the magic number threads in the past. When you get to zero, do you just celebrate or do you post a pic of Jeffrey Leonard?

[liveforoctober]

4 minutes ago, Jim French Stepstool said:

I never paid enough attention to the magic number threads in the past. When you get to zero, do you just celebrate or do you post a pic of Jeffrey Leonard?

The Franklin Stubbs disrespect...

[igor67]

Leskanic is always a popular option

[Outlander]

Get to use Turang at 2 and 0.

[folly412]

A rookie Rock.  We'll see him again in a couple weeks.

 

[folly412]

Think I'm going to go with the baseball card theme this year.  While there's a lot to choose from, tonight it feels appropriate to go with current jersey wearer.

[Dragonbait]

35 minutes ago, folly412 said:

Think I'm going to go with the baseball card theme this year.  While there's a lot to choose from, tonight it feels appropriate to go with current jersey wearer.

It also helps those of us who don't recognize faces.

[Baldkin]

Bought and gave away 5,000 tickets to a game in 2008. 

[StearnsFTW]

6 hours ago, Jim French Stepstool said:

I never paid enough attention to the magic number threads in the past. When you get to zero, do you just celebrate or do you post a pic of Jeffrey Leonard?

Yes

[AdvantageSchneider]

 

He's available if we need some innings to be ate during the stretch run.

[Ron Robinsons Beard]

In honor of Freddy's very Jeff Suppan-like performance last night ...

"Soup pitched great!"

[CheezWizHed]

On 8/10/2024 at 3:21 PM, Jim French Stepstool said:

I never paid enough attention to the magic number threads in the past. When you get to zero, do you just celebrate or do you post a pic of Jeffrey Leonard?

"Celebrate" and "Jeffrey Leonard" shouldn't ever be used in the same sentence.

56 minutes ago, Ron Robinsons Beard said:

In honor of Freddy's very Jeff Suppan-like performance last night ...

"Soup pitched great!"

Ugh... my neck hurts.

[RightFieldCoder]

We inch closer to playing two extra games in October.

[Ron Robinsons Beard]

Lo Cain, Part I

A big thank you to the Cardinals, Cubs and Pirates for also being terrible during this recent Brewers' mini-slide.

[RightFieldCoder]

Reds sweep Cardinals.

[folly412]

[RightFieldCoder]

[folly412]

[Baldkin]

[Ron Robinsons Beard]

Gotta love those two-for mornings, as the Brewers knocked two crooked ones off the magic number with their win combined with the flailing Cardinals' loss. A commanding 8.5 game lead over the Cards and suddenly resurgent Reds, now tied at 60-61. The fat lady is far from singing, but she's getting warmed up.

For #35, here is Narcisco Elvira ... a young lefty pitcher the Brewers pried out of the Mexican League in the late '80s, perhaps in an attempt to replicate their earlier success with Teddy Higuera. Alas, it wasn't meant to be, as despite having good stuff, Elvira struggled with his command and washed out at a relatively young age. He did go on to have a solid career pitching in Asia, though. Elvira made news later on after being kidnapped in his native Mexico and held for ransom for nearly a month in 2015. He was later killed in a shooting in 2020 (RIP).

 

For #34, it's much tougher finding players, as the number is more-or-less retired in honor of Rollie Fingers. Unfortunately there are no good photos of one-time Brewers prospect and now famous Hollywood film producer Mark Ciardi. So lets go with JHJ.

[RightFieldCoder]

pitcher Wes Obermueller

[Ron Robinsons Beard]

Sweet #33 can be none other than the vaunted (and spectacularly bearded) Ronald Dean Robinson. The talented Robinson came to the Brewers in a 1990 trade for Glenn Braggs and Billy Bates, and proceeded to pitch like an ace down the stretch. Unfortunately he went down after 4 1/3 innings in his first start of the 1991 season, missing the year, and while he tried making a comeback in 1992, he was never the same. We do have that sweet 12-5 record and 2.95 ERA in 1990, though, for the man who Pete Rose once called "The True Creature". Robinson is also known for taking a perfect game 8 2/3 innings for the Reds in 1988.