Brewers (May) vs Padres (Ray): 08/12/26, 3:10 PM

[da swedish german]

i'll see ya'll late september or next year

embarrassed to be a fellow brewer fan the last few weeks

what a soft, stick up the as$, fan base here. how many of you are "sports journalists" for your local high school?

[Jim French Stepstool]

45 minutes ago, wntrtxn21 said:

 

I'm not as sure about the hitting coaching. Milwaukee just doesn't have the talent at too many positions to be any kind of threat for the W.S...  Yelich is washed up and they are stuck with him for the next two years. Mitchell is 7 for his last 56 and whiffing about 1/3 of the time. He's been hurt so much nobody knew if he could hit or not. The talent as a hitter just doesn't seem to be there.  Hamilton is a once or twice a week bench guy who is playing far too much because Murphy had nobody else. Ortiz is hitting better than his career stats, but nobody is going to mistake him for a natural good hitter. Lara is a young guy who is over matched quite often. He really belongs in the minors at age 21. No amount of coaching can make up for the lack of talent. Contreras is a different story. However I don't know if at this point in his career he's going to change much. 

Contreras, Chourio, Turang, Vaughn. Someone earlier asked about who you'd be confident having up w/a runner on 3rd & one out in the playoffs. Last year during the lions' share of the season many would've mentioned any of the above four. You need at least a couple of those four on a given day, you need Pratt to get back ASAP, and you need Lara to find whatever it is Pratt found that raised his confidence level. That at least surrounds Bauers with some help. It would also help if Mitchell's hot-cold act goes hot again. And some of the less-is-more approach I mentioned from hitters when there are runners on base, esp with less than two out.

I'm not sure re the hitting coaches either. An awful lot of this IMO is mental. I DO think it's funny that Vogelbach gets so much poison on here, probably because folks don't know the names of the other two (Eric Theisen, Guillermo Martinez).

Other than Lara who has no track record to speak of, none of the above things are pie-in-the-sky wishful thinking. But fans love to jump on bandwagons, and during times like these many like to jump down empty elevator shafts.

[Brock Beauchamp]

30 minutes ago, Paul7 said:

Bregman 3 HRs, first time in career, and seven RBIs.

Welcome to the site!

[Samurai Bucky]

3 hours ago, trwi7 said:

So dumb.  How do they not do Gary the Grouch or Grover Sanchez?  I never even watched Sesame Street because Guy Smiley terrified me but I spent two seconds on this and came up with two better names than what they gave him.

Whenever they showed the Twins, they only showed half of their face because they were all in Oscar's garbage can.  LOL

[adambr2]

Murph said Uribe was not available today. 

If any of your relief pitchers need 3 days off in a row in the midst of a brutal August stretch of consecutive days, then you cannot afford to have a 6 man rotation. 

[wildcat2237]

20 minutes ago, adambr2 said:

Murph said Uribe was not available today. 

If any of your relief pitchers need 3 days off in a row in the midst of a brutal August stretch of consecutive days, then you cannot afford to have a 6 man rotation. 

Couldn't agree more. I know your Uribe threw some serious pitches over the weekend, but 3 days off is a bit much.