Diamondbacks at Brewers; Monday, August 25 @ 6:40 p.m.: Brandon Woodruff (2.47 ERA, 3.50 FIP) vs. Eduardo Rodríguez (5.40 ERA, 4.69 FIP)

[OldSchoolSnapper]

12 minutes ago, willie key said:

Actually they don’t have as much as they had for sure.   You can tell it in the interviews, the way they act in the field etc.    it sure hasn’t looked like as much fun for them.    Especially pissing your pants every ninth inning.     They just need win like three games in a row and they will be fine

 

they know blowing a nine game lead is pretty much a legendary choke.  

Oh my God dude please stop

[Jim French Stepstool]

1 hour ago, kevinisaname said:

Man, I really hope Ashby can be a starter in this league. Nasty stuff.

It's been mentioned a few times that he'd like to go back to starting. He certainly has the pitch assortment to do it. If he can comfortably maintain everything through a minimum of 80-85 throws it'll probably happen.

Personally I like him in the once-through the order role, kinda like what Hader did when he first came up.

[OldSchoolSnapper]

15 minutes ago, RobertCrawley said:

I definitely remember the days of August/September when we lingered mid-pack or worse and the stadium was empty. 

The only positive was cheap tickets in really good seats.

I sometimes get nostalgic for those days. Not all the losing I guess, but to this day I'm partial to open air stadiums. County was special. I get the necessity of the roof, but it was special. Being a kid, my dad getting random tickets from work on a Tuesday night against the Angels or whatever, coming home and asking if I wanted to go. It was always like the most unexpected surprise in the world. And then maybe see the Brewers maybe win and climb to 60-85, but it didn't matter. The whole baseball experience was geared around watching 2 or 3 guys bat and if they won, even better. 

My entire childhood (I was like 6-7 when the dark years began so it was all I really knew) was spent with the acceptance that the Brewers were always going to lose, and it was ok. It was never even a consideration to me they'd make a postseason. 

 

[RobertCrawley]

18 minutes ago, OldSchoolSnapper said:

I sometimes get nostalgic for those days. Not all the losing I guess, but to this day I'm partial to open air stadiums. County was special. I get the necessity of the roof, but it was special. Being a kid, my dad getting random tickets from work on a Tuesday night against the Angels or whatever, coming home and asking if I wanted to go. It was always like the most unexpected surprise in the world. And then maybe see the Brewers maybe win and climb to 60-85, but it didn't matter. The whole baseball experience was geared around watching 2 or 3 guys bat and if they won, even better. 

My entire childhood (I was like 6-7 when the dark years began so it was all I really knew) was spent with the acceptance that the Brewers were always going to lose, and it was ok. It was never even a consideration to me they'd make a postseason. 

 

I get nostalgic too. I loved the old County Stadium, as cantankerous as it was. I guess in those days I hoped the Brewers would make it to the postseason again but it was not an expectation. I especially liked that some of the players parked their cars out front, so I could take my son out there and wait for an autograph. Some of the players were really good about sticking around and giving a kid a wonderful memory. I remember one night when José Valentín stood in the parking lot for quite a while and signed every single request.

[Fear The Chorizo]

2 hours ago, willie key said:

Good news is that would have been an all time crushing blow after numerous others.     They held on.   But they need some damn confidence.    

This team is 4 wins better than anyone else in MLB, 6 more wins than anyone else in the NL.

I take it you are more of the glass 5 percent empty sort - even if filling it even more would cause it to overflow and be a different reason for doom and gloom

 

[ToolShed55]

Here's an interesting fact. I sold a set of golf clubs to Eduardo Rodriguez (and Justin Martinez) in Spring Training. 

And helped Aaron Ashby get a new putter the day before his first rehab game, a week or so later!

Brewers juju for both guys tonight. Hehe.

[BruisedCrew]

What some of you youngsters think of as nostalgic is part of the modern era for me.

I've often told my daughters that if I could get a time machine I would want to go back to see a Braves game in 1957 when I attended my first major league game as a 5 year old.

When the Braves were in town my Dad would occasionally get his company's tickets, usually for Sunday afternoons that often featured doubleheaders. We would arrive at the park an hour or so before the game and take our seats in section 13 of the lower grandstand, directly in back of the Braves dugout.  We would see the visiting team take batting practice. Then they would roll the cage away and the visitors would go through their fielding drills. After that the Braves took the field, and a young boy marvelled at how Eddie Mathews, Johnny Logan, and Joe Adcock would whip the ball around the infield and the outfielders would shag the long fungo fly balls served up by the coaches.

Just before the game, Warren Spahn, or whoever else was starting that day, would come out and warm up, not in the bullpen but from a mound on the warning track outside  of the dugout.

Things were so different in those days when the game was the whole attraction. There were concession stands and many vendors walking through the stands. But the stadium wasn't like a shopping mall food court with cocktail lounges scattered around. The small scoreboard showed the score, balls, strikes and outs and scores from other games. But no statistics, video reviews, or games in between innings.  The average game length was about 2 hours and 15 minutes, so it went by quickly.

[RWeeksFan23]

18 hours ago, Sixtolezcano said:

3 middle/middle all looking for Vaughan. Been very disappointing of late 0.222/0.311/0.370 last 15 games. Might be time for Rhys.

 

part of it is fatigue, he's had one game off in the last several weeks. Part of it too was a few of those Cubs games, the wind was drastically blowing in, and his flyballs just died.

[RWeeksFan23]

17 hours ago, adambr2 said:

Vaughn’s bat going cold at the worst possible time just about guarantees that we’re about to get a lot more Jake Bauers in the lineup again.

Vaughn is fatigued. Went without a game off for 67546446758 days in a row. Also, the wind was blowing in at Wrigley for several games which killed his fly balls.

[Sixtolezcano]

1 hour ago, RWeeksFan23 said:

Vaughn is fatigued. Went without a game off for 67546446758 days in a row. Also, the wind was blowing in at Wrigley for several games which killed his fly balls.

67.5 billion days? That is over 185 million years. I wouldn’t be so worried if the wind was blowing in. I’d be more worried about him standing at home plate.